Looking over my posts for this month, one could say I’ve been a tad tough. Call it what you will, but everything I do, I do because I care and want the best for every author I have the pleasure of working with and know.
Which is why it hurts and leaves me empty when I hear someone I’ve worked so closely with…or just been a part of a publishing home family…dies.
No, no one has recently passed away. I’ve just come across some names during a database clean up. People who have crossed my path and made me smile. Even when we argued there were still smiles. Even now there’s a certain editor who I know would have shuddered and fought over some submissions, but who was just as passionate about what we do as I am, as any of us are.
There have been illness and accidents. Every one of these still a shock to the heart.
Thankfully, there have been illnesses fought and won.
Our cyber connection is as real as any physical interaction. Really, our cyber lives have expanded and contracted the world around. We’ve been brought into each other’s homes from miles away and from next door.
We’ve shared our dreams coming true. We’ve shouted successes and wished happy birthdays to people who would normally have been strangers. We’ve cyber hugged over sorrows and sent good thoughts in times of need.
Whatever life has to bring we’re forever connected.
This above all else is why I do what I do.
Keep writing, keep dreaming, keep smiling
I know what you mean. The author/editor relationship is really a partnership, if done right. The more you work with an author, the closer you become. I've lost a few, too. Always a sad occasion.
You got it, Lorna. At Muse, we've lost a few authors, one being someone I worked with. Her death was an accident, unexpected, no warning, no disease involved. We've lost others from cancer and only knowing them cyberly it doesn't matter, connections are made and grief is real
There was an author who I never personally met, but we corresponded via the internet. She sent me an early Christmas card and I wrote and thanked her. Just after Christmas I was notified that she had died. I knew she had an illness, but I never dreamed of how it had progressed or even thought she was that close to death.
I still read her Christmas card from time to time.
Susan, when MuseItUp first opened we had an editor named, Karen. Karen and I butted heads on so many things. From editing to genre content, we drove each other nuts.
But, we also laughed and helped each other during the process. Today, I still look up and go…yes, Karen, I hear you. People never pass out of our lives.
Every person brings something to our lives.
I know what you mean Chris. Lea was my editor recently and I know that she had a tough time because of my POV's, but we worked on it and we got there. For me working with Lea at that time kept me sane as my husband had been diagnosed with bowel cancer (no symptoms to warn us) but thankfully it hadn't spread and has been successfully removed. But that contact with Lea kept me going through what was a difficult time.
Hi, Lesley.
I'm thrilled your hubby's bout was successfully removed and contained. People forget cancer can come without warnings.
HUGS