Re: AMERICAN GARDENER
- Subject: Re: [SG] AMERICAN GARDENER
- From: G* B*
- Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 07:43:17 -0600
Hello Bobbi,
I believe magazine editors get around your "MUST" by the contract. All
writers receive a contract up front to be signed setting the terms for the
article. Some where in all the paragraphs there will be something about the
writer acknowledging the fact that the editor may change the words of the
text. They do not say you get to approve the changes.... but simple courtesy
would seem to dictate a final communication.
Newspapers are a horse of a different breed.... among the most lacking
in simple manners I have ever dealt with..... all under the guise of busy,
busy.... Hey! aren't we all?
Off of soapbox now....
Gene E. Bush
Munchkin Nursery & Gardens,LLC
genebush@munchkinnursery.com
www.munchkinnursery.com
Southern Indiana Zone 6
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bobbi Diehl" <diehlr@INDIANA.EDU>
Subject: Re: [SG] AMERICAN GARDENER
> Well, Gene, my experience has been that in book publishing, nothing comes
> out without the author's OK. We may change his/her actual WORDS to smooth
> out or clarify the meaning, but in all cases we do it with the approval of
> the author. Of course, we are not faced with the deadlines that magazine
> and newspaper people have to deal with. Maybe deadlines excuse their
> actions. But regardless, assuming YOUR name is on the article, it would
> seem to me that either they should publish what you write exactly as you
> wrote it, or if they change it they MUST get your OK.
>
> Bobbi Diehl
> Bloomington, IN
> zone 5/6
