In article <1123683775.100804.182...@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
Caleb N. Diffell <cdiff...@gmail.com> wrote:

        That means you were about six when Jim Baen began Baen Books,
putting it in the Always Around catagory for you, the same way DAW
(founded 1971, when I was ten) is for me.

        Generally, handicapping editors isn't that hard because most
SF lines, with one glaring exception, only have one or two editors
at any given time. You read Baen, you're dealing (mostly) with Jim Baen's
tastes. Ace is Ginjer Buchanan. You read DAW and it's (I think still)
Betsy Wollheim and Sheila Gilbert (?). Del Rey used to be Lester I
Have a Lot of Made Up Middle Names del Rey and his wife Judy-Lynn.

        Tor is the hard one. They employ a lot of editors, whose
tastes vary. They don't always indicate who has edited what (on
the choice of the editor*, I think) so editor stalking can be more
difficult with Tor.  Ear-tagging works but is rather surprisingly
illegal.

                                                        James Nicoll

* It's an all or nothing deal, I think. They cannot chose to be credited
on SPENDID NOVEL OF IMAGINATION AND CLEAN PROSE and not on SOME BOOKS YOU
PRINT FOR THE MONEY.

        If I recall the comments of [NAME WITHHELD at Avon] about
[TITLE WITHHELD] by [AN AUTHOR WHOSE SHOULD BE BEATEN WITH STEEL
PIPES FOR PLAGARIZING DAVID LANGFORD], there are authors who have
what we call "easily hurt feelings" and I imagine, speaking here in
a theoretical sense, some authors would be hurt if their editor
decided to withhold their name on that particular author's books.
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