I interrupt my fledgling series on process to share my sadness as what is being called
Black Wednesday in the publishing world.

Hardly nothing nor nobody’s sacred, it seems.

You can read a little bit about what’s going on here and here and here, but the bottom line is that houses are hurting and, as a result, editors and authors and illustrators and designers and booksellers and the whole long string of us are hurting.

I have a personal, vested interest in Simon & Schuster, which got hit hard, but the truth is that there’s got to be an all-for-one mentality here.

Writers and readers, booklovers and bookmakers.

Let’s hope we can ride out this recession together, with words still valued and stories still standing — and the good people who have made words and stories their life work still around to bring them to life…