Managing Authors

It must take a certain very rare, very saintly personality type to manage authors and still remain sane.

John Scalzi (who I keep confusing with, but who is a very different person from Cosma Shalizi), writes:

Whatever: Thoughts on The Last Colony: Then I went back to my office and wrote an e-mail to Patrick Nielsen Hayden, my editor, which went as such: "My main character was an annoying putz. I've pushed him down a well and you'll never meet him. I'll need a couple of extra months to finish the book." To which PNH's response, to his credit, was: "Fine"...