A five tweet message from @pnh

[james_davis_nicoll]

James Frenkel is no longer associated with Tor Books. We wish him the best. (1/5)

We’ll be contacting the authors and agents Mr. Frenkel worked with to discuss which editor here they’ll be working with going forward. (2/5)

This process will take some days or even weeks, so please be patient if you don’t hear from us instantly. (3/5)

Finally, if you had something on submission to Tor via Mr. Frenkel, you’ll need to resubmit it via some other Tor editor. (4/5)

If you don’t have a particular editor in mind, you can re-submit it via Diana Pho (diana.pho@tor.com) who will route it appropriately. (5/5)

Comments

[cofax7]

Hard copies? People are still sending hard copies as submissions? I'm not a publishing professional, but I find that really surprising.

[autopope.livejournal.com]

It's more reliable than email.

For a while, Tor's email spam scanner -- forced on them by Macmillan corporate IT -- was silently binning incoming electronic manuscripts that contained Rude Words. I had a couple of novels eaten that way and had to send them to $EDITOR's private Panix account. I gather the final straw was when a manuscript by Orson Scott Card -- with a six digit advance -- got eaten. I would have paid good money to have been a fly on the wall when Tom Doherty (Tor's CEO) personally stormed Macmillan IT and gave them a piece of his mind ...

More recently: when they were pouring some millions of dollars into creating Tor.com as what was conceived of as a central hub for the written SF field, the net nanny was set to block most of their competitor sites -- which they needed to study, as basic competitive analysis -- as "work inappropriate". The swearing was audible from Scotland ...

Final note: Tor are clueful about IT compared to some of their competitors (cough, nudge, Random Penguin, Hachette). And I speak as a former IT professional turned spam-filter victim ....

[major-clanger.livejournal.com]

I gather the final straw was when a manuscript by Orson Scott Card -- with a six digit advance -- got eaten.

Thank you for making my morning.