Thank you! I hope they actually are! LOL

...as possible. And maybe -- just maybe! -- if this news is delivered early, there can be a way to mitigate it. Such that authors otherwise consigned to the aforementioned boneyard might at least get another chance.

-fin-

...honest conversations BEFORE it's too late. As it is, right now authors get a career-cancer diagnosis with 24 hours to live...and as the old joke goes, the doc has been trying to reach you since yesterday.

I am begging publishing houses to think about how to communicate bad news as early...

...get the sense that something is dreadfully amiss, but are gaslit (with the best of intentions!) into distrusting their gut and blithely continuing on a career path that ends in a boneyard.

Ask me how I know.

We can't keep doing this to authors. There needs to be a way to have those hard...3/

Somewhere in the depths of publishing houses, where young editors and publicists are weaned from mother's milk with the sweetness of printer's ink, they are taught that authors are fragile flowers who cannot bear the horrors of bad news or -- *shudder* -- NUMBERS.

Consequently, many authors... 2/