To Sir With Love

To me, like most writers of my experience level, editors are mysterious beings.  I look at them like I looked at girls when I was fourteen, with an unsettling mixture of lust and loathing through a hormone-spike induced fog of ignorance.  That’s why it’s good to get into a real editors brain.  No, I’m not having a Hannibal moment, I’m refering to the editor of “Verbsap.”

The joint publishes some quirky “minimalist” short fiction – by some fine writers, known and unknown.  And the Laurie Seidler’s “Editor’s Notebook” is refreshingly cool.  That’s where we get inside the exotic creature’s deepest thought processes and dispell some of the myths – always a healthy thing.  Plus Laurie is funny.

I also bumped into a headline on the site I couldn’t resist, “The average age of writers when their books top the NYT hardback best-seller list is 50.5, according to a study out this month.”  So I clicked…  as usual a mixed blessing.

Best age to write a bestseller?  50.5?  I’m intrigued.  An interesting study – and not just because I’m approximately that age.  Uh Oh, spam alarm goes off – it’s a story pushed by “LuLu,” a self-publishing operation.  What is God trying to tell me?  Anyway, ignore “LuLu ‘ and enjoy the anecdotes.  Oh hell, who am I kidding, it’s a load of crap.

But it does inspire me.  Let’s do another “Idiosyncratic Mind” Survey.  How old were you when you wrote your first bestseller?

And speaking of “LuLu”… the thread unravels futher when this innocent link pops up.  See the sponsor credit?  I’m beginning to sense a conspiracy. 

Do you suppose it all leads here?

Nah.