Why air-condition in winter? If the Flatiron's steam heat is anything like it is in the building where I work, which is around the corner, it makes perfect sense. The office gets too hot by noon, and there's no way to turn the radiators off. If your windows happen to face south, as well (ours do), you're outright broiled.
We keep all our windows open as far as we can without our papers blowing away, and hoo-boy, do we wish we could turn on the A/C. It's been at least 85 degrees every day for the last week--hot enough that we have trouble focusing, hot enough that my officemate gets headaches, hot enough that every half hour or so someone (usually me) exclaims, "God DAMN, it's hot in here!" When you step in from the corridor, where it's about twenty degrees cooler, you can feel the shimmering wall of heat. It's disgusting.
Thanks for the Flatiron food tips. My office moved two blocks south of yours in March, and we're all still exploring the neighborhood.
I've been to Eisenberg's enough times to know that I vastly prefer the chicken salad and bacon sandwich over the tuna, but I hadn't figured out what was the difference between all those generic-looking delis.
The halal cart serves Italian sausage, and Eisenberg's serves BLTs. Clearly, it's a conspiracy.
We're a very small (but scrappy!) house with very uneven cash flow, so we (I) do almost all of our typesetting ourselves and skimp severely on editorial services. Desktop publishing R us. I enjoy typesetting, so that part's fine with me, but I hate sending books to the printer with the knowledge that they're full of howlers.
Had I come to you, you would have (a) laughed at what we paid, or (b) cried when you learned how late we would pay it.
As for the purpose of our ARCs, we use them mainly to garner reviews. The other purposes on your list are, if addressed at all, met with copies of the raw manuscript that we laser-print and spiral-bind ourselves. I guess you could call those galleys, too, if you were feeling generous.
Yay rah, Teresa!
Robert L: I just uploaded the files for what in my office we call a galley--which I believe is technically an advance reader copy (ARC)?--to our printer's server this evening, and yes, often the text in these things is the final version. For one title that's on a truck somewhere right now, we actually ordered galleys/ARCs after sending the book to the printer. This may have something to do with our being mad--I sent pages out for indexing at the same time, and it wasn't really, um, proofread much.
I do not recommend managing one's production in this way, but I'm told that it's the secret to our success. Or one of them, anyway.
The punishment is that we never, ever get to use embossing or foil. And I'm growing a lot more gray hairs since I took this job.
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