A prominent editor was fired yesterday.
At first, Romanceland was in shock.
THEN the knives came out.
Writers justified the firing
by saying
she took too long
responding to submissions,
or she missed the trends,
or she rejected the wrong stories.
Dumbness
for a number of reasons.
With the self-publishing boom,
great editors are in demand
and she is a great editor.
She won’t be unemployed for long.
She also has a lot of contacts
in Romanceland.
The industry is really small
and anything writers say about her
WILL float back to her.
But most of all,
no one except for the executive team
knows why she was fired.
I can guarantee
it wasn’t for a petty reason
like taking too long with submissions.
I’ve been involved in these decisions
and it is more likely
that this editor was fired
because someone had to be fired.
The company missed their earnings
or missed a trend no one could predict
or some other reason
the editor had no control over.
Think twice
before speaking ill of the fired.