OMG the FUNNY!
Feb. 4th, 2008 09:46 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lauraanne_gilmanfrom an article (via ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jaylake) on Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code:
"As far as we are concerned he’s at work on a sequel and it will be published and we will be publishing it," Barrow said. "There is never any clause from publisher to a novelist that they have to deliver at a certain time. We would not impose such a thing on a contract." [emphasis mine]
*does best drop-jaw and howls for da (painful) funny*
(in case anyone here has missed this essential fact of writing-life: deadlines are the things publishers put into contracts at which point the book is due. Yes, even for Dan Brown and JK Rowling, etc. They may be politely overlooked, but they ARE in the contract. Fifteen years on the editorial side, and I never once heard of a contract being drawn up without a delivery date.)
jaylake) on Dan Brown's long-awaited follow-up to The Da Vinci Code:"As far as we are concerned he’s at work on a sequel and it will be published and we will be publishing it," Barrow said. "There is never any clause from publisher to a novelist that they have to deliver at a certain time. We would not impose such a thing on a contract." [emphasis mine]
*does best drop-jaw and howls for da (painful) funny*
(in case anyone here has missed this essential fact of writing-life: deadlines are the things publishers put into contracts at which point the book is due. Yes, even for Dan Brown and JK Rowling, etc. They may be politely overlooked, but they ARE in the contract. Fifteen years on the editorial side, and I never once heard of a contract being drawn up without a delivery date.)
