on deadlines, stress, and professionalism....

‹LauraAnne› I just regretted out of an all-day party tomorrow. Because I COULD just go for a few hours, but I know I wouldn't...
‹pooks› And that's what makes you a pro.
‹LauraAnne› a grumpy, grumpy pro.
‹pooks› Is there any other kind?
‹LauraAnne› .....maybe?
‹pooks› A nongrumpy pro just hasn't been a pro very long.
‹LauraAnne› or just got a check.
‹pooks› Oh yes, there is that.

A.C. Crispin, RiP

Not unexpected - she'd been ill for a long time, and warned people earlier this week the end was near - but I still feel like I've been gut-punched.

I've known Ann my entire professional career - I was her editor's assistant on the Starbridge books, and in fact inspired at least one alien species with my "meerkat" nickname. So that's... twenty-five years. More than half my life.

Ann was smart, funny, occasionally impossible, and had a heart too large for one body to contain - Writer Beware was how it expanded outside her. She will be missed.

http://www.tor.com/blogs/2013/09/ac-crispin-obit