Never mind fast vs slow

[james_davis_nicoll]

Is it better for a writer to be tall or short? Anyone selling to the US market is selling in a nation where the taller of the two candidates in presidential elections usually wins. Clearly if you expect to meet your editor, it may be handy to be tall: the taller you are, the more naturally submissive your editor might be [1]. On the other hand, if you don't think you will ever meet your editor, you can just lie about how tall you are and it may be that smaller authors require less food than tall ones.

1: Clearly, Galactus would enjoy a significant social advantage over Scott Lang, even if Lang were still alive.

Comments

Ultimate Nullifier

[curt-holman.livejournal.com]

I think any social advantages of Galactus' height would be nullified by the whole eating-planets thing.

Which one was Scott Lang? I'm usually good with secret identity-names.

Re: Ultimate Nullifier

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

Ant-Man.

Re: Ultimate Nullifier

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

Someone got the job after Henry Pym?

If you don't use the name, you may lose corporate rights over it

[james-nicoll.livejournal.com]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ant-Man_(Scott_Lang)

and his daughter seems to have got into the mask game, although she uses both applications of Pym particles and doesn't the telepathic control over insects helmet [1]:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassandra_Lang

1: Can you imagine how valuable that helmet could be, applied to, oh, agriculture?

[jaylake.livejournal.com]

I've never met a naturally submissive editor. I think that they're like dental hygeinists -- all doms at heart.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

Luckily you don't meet your editor until you've already sold a book.

I'm 175cms. David Hartwell is easily taller than I am, as is Gardner Dozois. Ginjer Buchanan is shorter but (a) female and (b) terrifying, and I don't think I've ever met Gary Turner or Bill Schaeffer.

[ritaxis.livejournal.com]

James, don't you dare give me another extraneous thing for me to be anxious about. (I'm pretty short -- 157 cm)

[brownkitty.livejournal.com]

Anyone with any sense knows that short people are vicious and have large friends.

[micheinnz.livejournal.com]

Ayup. I'm 147cm (a shade under 5 foot).

Possibly-related factoid

[alexx-kay.livejournal.com]

In the American comic book industry, it has been observed that a large fraction of publishers and editors-in-chief are over six feet tall.