Quote of the day

On a note one of my production colleagues got as part of a book handover package from editorial the other day:

"The author can't be contacted as she's dead."

Such a defeatist attitude, don't you think? Who says her passing necessarily makes her incommunicado? I think we should arrange a seance: "If you're happy to approve the cover, knock once, and if you'd like the blurb changed, knock twice..."

Appropriately enough, the book in question was a revised edition of 'On Death And Dying'...