Michael Thomas Ford's Blog, page 9

Work Related Injury

[image error] My father thinks that I work for a publishing company. Which, technically, I do. But not in the way he thinks. He's under the impression that I am employed by a publisher and given an annual salary to write books for them. He assumes, too, that the publisher gives me ideas on which to base my novels. He says things like, "So what are they having you write these days?"

I'd like to say that he's alone in not really understanding what writers do, but he isn't. In my nearly 20-year career I've enc...

I Yam What I Yam

I used to answer Godzilla's fan mail.

It was my first job, and I wasn't hired to answer Godzilla's fan mail, I just kind of fell into it. I was actually hired as an editorial assistant at a children's books publisher. We published books for the school library market. One of the series was based on classic monster movies, including Godzilla. I don't know why, so don't ask. They were already doing them when I got there, so it wasn't my fault.

My first week on the job, someone handed me a stack of...