I'd previously heard tnh answer this question the same way, that the best way to get started in publishing is by moving to the appropriate city and working your way up from the bottom. I wonder why this is so?
I've had a career in IT and, while I have a suspicion that my spelling and grammar are better than 99% of those in my field, I don't have any aspirations in publishing. However, I am curious about it. In IT, people move from job to job and city to city relatively frequently and more and more commonly work from home via the Internet. I have worked for companies in two countries other than my own and once got offered a job at home while I was in the USA.
I would have thought that widespread use of the Internet, email, and cheap teleconferencing would have led to editors for big pubishers working in various cities or at home, manuscripts being submitted by email, publishers offloading much of their precious big-city office space, and so on.
Why is it so?
I've had a career in IT and, while I have a suspicion that my spelling and grammar are better than 99% of those in my field, I don't have any aspirations in publishing. However, I am curious about it. In IT, people move from job to job and city to city relatively frequently and more and more commonly work from home via the Internet. I have worked for companies in two countries other than my own and once got offered a job at home while I was in the USA.
I would have thought that widespread use of the Internet, email, and cheap teleconferencing would have led to editors for big pubishers working in various cities or at home, manuscripts being submitted by email, publishers offloading much of their precious big-city office space, and so on.