Emily Gould was an associate editor at Hyperion before unwisely deciding to scrap her promising publishing career for a job as an editor at Gawker. Somewhere in there she also co-wrote a YA book and found time to update her personal blog, Emily Magazine.
Andy Heidel brings twelve years of publishing experience and insight to his daily posts, most recently as the former assistant director of publicity for Houghton Mifflin. He is also the author of the short story collection <a href="http://store.pspublishing.co.uk/acatalog/desperate_moon_three_collections_jhc.html"Desperate Moon, and penned the infamous “Stroller Manifesto” for New York magazine, which is still making headlines as the heated debate over babies in bars continues.
Ron Hogan has been an editor for GalleyCat since late 2005. Before that, he created one of the Internet’s earliest literary-themed websites, Beatrice.com. He has never worked for a publishing company, but spent a year behind the counter at Dutton’s Brentwood Bookstore and two years working for Amazon.com. He, too, has a book: The Stewardess Is Flying the Plane.
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And now the three of us will proceed to do our part to smash print media until the pace finally gets to us.
Or not; personally, I’m more concerned about the threat of RSI and the effects of email apnea—both of which affect all of us in the book/publishing ecology and, actually, most white-collar workers across the board, not just the bloggers. (And perhaps, as John Scalzi observes, “it’s not the blogging that turns these fellows into phosphor trolls, it’s just their excuse for being so.”)