I have often wondered what today’s editors would make of past classics if they were submitted now. So here’s my take of a telephone conversation of a commissioning editor talking to authors of classic books who have just submitted their first manuscripts. Not that I have suffered from my editors, of course, I love you […]
Unfortunate Swiss names
OK, you’ve all heard of the village of Fucking in Austria; the mountain of Wank in Germany or the very well known Ville de Condom in France, all three of which suffer from pranksters stealing their city signs on the motorway as soon as they put another up. Can dowdy, demure Switzerland compete with the […]