Jane Yolen had a post on facebook, which I have been unable to track down. She was replying to a guy who thought YA editors were prejudiced against male authors. Yolan said in all her years as a writer and editor, she had run into only one kind of prejudice, which she called, "LITS." This stands for "Life is too short." There are writers, both new and established, who are simply too difficult to deal with: prickly, paranoid, arrogant, unwilling to compromise...
I assume, if these writers are g...
Published on August 07, 2010 05:53