Comments on: This Just In: New York No Longer Center of Universe

By: Danielle

Danielle — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 14:21:37 +0000

Canadian mail is excruciatingly slow

Canada Post is notoriously awful.

By: NYCMouse

NYCMouse — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 13:12:04 +0000

"itâ€s better to have a good agent in Canada than a bad agent in the Bronx." Yes, but why not hold out for a great agent on 6th Avenue?

By: Booksquare

Booksquare — Wed, 13 Jul 2005 00:01:03 +0000

It’s the more relaxed pace up there — though I will admit that I, sadly, seem to have no trouble receiving from Canada at the speed of light.

By: Susan Gable

Susan Gable — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 18:07:32 +0000

I use Fed Ex to ship mss to HQ in Toronto – they’re the only ones you can count on to get it there on-time when you’re rushing to deadline. (g) And it can get very expensive. I wish HQ would let us email our ms. Heck, I’d bet the authors would be willing to chip in to buy printers for their editors (apparently there’s like ONE printer in the office) and even a case of paper if we didn’t have to ship the darn things.

Gosh, just think how far you could push the deadline if you could email the ms. Right up to the last MINUTE. Ta-da, it arrived on-time. (g) Of course, with my luck, it would get lost in cyberspace.

By: Antoine Wilson

Antoine Wilson — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 17:06:02 +0000

Canadian mail is excruciatingly slow, in and out. I don’t know why.

By: Brenda Coulter

Brenda Coulter — Tue, 12 Jul 2005 16:48:36 +0000

I have writer friends who do business with the Harlequin offices in Canada, and they’re always griping about:

1. How expensive it is to phone editors in Canada.

2. How much it costs to mail manuscripts to Canada.

3. How long it takes their manuscripts to reach Canada. And how often they are lost in the mail.

4. How long it takes to receive mail from Canada. And how often items are lost in the mail.

Seems to me that all of these things would also be issues for writers with an agent in Toronto. Not that I don’t wish the guy well.