You’re married to an editor…was she an editor when you met her?
Oh yes. She was the founding editorial director of Tom Doherty associates, which publishes TOR books. Before that she had been promoted to Vice President, and celebrated that by resigning to set up her own imprint which was distributed by Grosset and Dunlap. My first novel to be published was published by her imprint.
When that book was done I began to miss her…so we began dating.
Then I asked her to marry me…but I very got Neanderthal and got cold feet. She was my publisher and my editor and how could I marry her? So I hurriedly sold some things elsewhere and then it was all right. She’s still my editor. She’s cut back now, and I’m the only author she edits. We used to spend a week a month in New York so she could do editorial work, and she decided she didn’t want to do that anymore but she still edited people. Then a couple of years ago she cut that because of the tours for my books, and I want her to come with me, ‘cause I’d go stone crazy spending a month on the road alone in hotels every night.
Very nice hotels.
Yes. they have to be able to do express laundry and have 24-hour room service because I often don’t get to eat until I get back to the hotel at one in the morning and I wanted to be able to get my favorite comfort food, Spaghetti Bolognese, which is really just spaghetti with a very simple tomato meat sauce.
Anyway, she gave up her last writers, she was editing Father Andrew Greeley and Mike and Cathy Greer, and I’d started to sell books in translation and my European publishers started asking me to come to do tours in Sweden and Norway and Holland and Russia and Great Britain. So she decided it wouldn’t be fair to the authors to go incommunicado on them for a month at a time.
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