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Girl genius livejournal2/11/2024 ![]() Agents usually make publishing work better than it would otherwise. (Make no mistake: I’m not against agents. In fact, I’ll say this right now: If I ever, ever volunteer again to help a writer who’s having problems with some other editor at Tor, I will tell them with great emphasis that the moment I get an email from their agent treating me as part of the problem will be the moment I cease trying to deal with the problem. This was really where I should have disengaged. The agent replied, saying that evidently Phil had forgotten that part of the conversation. I responded by pointing out that I was traveling and that I’d told Phil I wouldn’t be in a position to help him with this until I returned in late November. What happened next? Well, despite what I said to Phil about not being in a position to help him until late November, September wasn’t even over before I began getting emails from Phil’s agent demanding that I deal with this and/or instruct Phil’s editor to deal with this-emails in which it was clear that, in Phil’s agent’s eyes, I was now Part Of Phil’s Problem At Tor. I’m a colleague of the person who Phil was dealing with. To repeat, contrary to what Phil says, I am not the editor-in-chief of Tor Books. This latter point bears repeating, because Phil’s blog post not only omits this fact, but promulgates a basic error. (2) I made it clear to Phil that the people he’d been having problems with don’t report to me. (1) I told Phil that I would be travelling and/or teaching nearly nonstop from shortly after Worldcon until late November, so that it was surpassingly unlikely I could do anything to help him at Tor until that date at the earliest. However, here are a couple of things that were said, and which are omitted from Phil’s account: This is, of course, not news to anyone who’s been a human being for any length of time. I’m not going to comment much on Phil’s characterization of that conversation, except to observe that it’s remarkable how people, even intelligent people of good will, can come away from a conversation with such drastically different understandings of what was said. Because Phil is a friend of lots of my friends, and because Teresa is a passionate fan of Girl Genius, I had a conversation with Phil about it at Worldcon. I got wind of this, and of Phil’s unhappiness about it. Some stuff didn’t go as well as it might have. Nothing like that is going to happen.Ī while back, Tor published a hardcover omnibus of the first three (previously self-published) Girl Genius graphic-novel volumes. To address one issue right away: Tor is not going to prevent further Girl Genius volumes from appearing over the next five years. Phil Foglio has decided ( here, here, and here) that I’m the author of his misfortunes with Tor Books, and that the appropriate thing to do is to urge all his fans to send me angry emails, tweets, and IMs about it. Posted by Patrick at 09:17 AM * 229 comments
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