Feb 02 2010
I’m an assistant editor!
Hello, I'm an assistant editor providing writing advice. SN specializes in superhero writing advice, obviously, but most of the advice here applies to fantasy and sci-fi as well.
I have joined the editorial staff of a comic book publisher. My coworkers are very friendly, our series are excellent and it feels like a very good fit.
Hopefully, your SN reading experience will not change very much.
- As before, I’d like to help you write the best superhero stories you can.
- Please regard my suggestions merely as opinions from an extremely new assistant editor rather than rules for “the industry” or a particular company.
- I won’t blog about anything I observe on the job without asking first, so don’t expect many industry insights here. If the editors wanted to talk about how the company runs, they’d probably use their own websites.
- If you’re looking for a job, I can’t help you much. My only advice is that professional-grade proofreading skills are required for editors and highly helpful for writers. They show that you’re serious about writing and help you contribute to the team. If that advice is actually news to you, I would recommend looking into fields besides publishing.
This is awesome, B. Mac…
Seriously, congratulations!
Congrats, B. Mac! You’re lucky to have gotten a job at all!
Congratulations, B. Mac, sounds like you have the greatest job ever.
Awesome, man! Congratulations, you’ve worked hard and really accomplished something great here.
Congratulations B. Mac.
Congrats!
Which publisher is it?
Awesome! Great job! (A huge stadium starts applauding!)
It’s a small imprint for a large publisher, Lucas. I’d prefer not to name it because saying I worked for COMPANYNAME might lead some people to think “oh, this is a COMPANYNAME blog!” That, and companies are very sensitive about any details that might identify them specifically. Have you heard of that Delta flight attendant that got fired?
I think Facebook has cost more jobs than the economy (exaggerating, of course) at this point, so you are definitely in the right in your prudence. My cousin got fired from a job at a supermarket just recently because he posted a picture of himself on one of those networking websites holding alcoholic beverages and it violated some sort of representational clause he had agreed to, and that was a extraordinarily small company, with not very much reason to care.
congrats, B. Mac!
I also try to be especially careful because I put a link to this website on my resume. So everything I write here is 100% accessible to them.
Also, during my work with the government, I heard about more than a few government employees getting chewed out or (usually) fired because of inappropriate online activities. In the last presidential election, an Obama speechwriter caused a minor scandal during the election by groping a poster of Hillary Clinton. While wearing a t-shirt labeled OBAMA STAFF.
Great job B. Mac! The writers of Superhero Nation are one step closer to global domination…er, I mean getting published!
- Wings
I suspect I’ll get the comic book published before June. At that point, I think it’ll be ~6 months of prep work before the first issue comes out, and then the next five issues will hopefully be released one-per-month.
I’d also like to submit my book about how to write superhero novels & comic books at some point. Maybe in half a year?
Congratulations! This sounds like a dream job for any one of us. Good luck in the future, B. Mac!
I’m so happy for you, B. Mac! Dunno how I missed this news earlier… *facepalm*
Thanks, Merides! Don’t worry about missing the announcement. Over the past two weeks, I’ve done ~15 posts and it would have been easy to miss in the pile.