My son, Josh, who owns American West Books, a wholesaler of books to the warehouse clubs and book trade and I are having dinner with some people from Andrews McMeel Publishing tonight. (We are in Bentonville, Arkansas for a Sam’s Club event.) I wanted to bone up on AMP and so went to check out their website.
Here is a quote from the site:
Inspired by one of Erma Bombeck’s columns, Kathleen Andrews, vice chairman of Andrews McMeel Universal, says, “Creative people are like kites. They fly high above the rest of us, inspiring us and filling us with awe. But there has to be somebody down here, on the ground, holding the string, pulling it tight, letting it out, or the kite couldn’t fly. If you let go of the string, the kite will crash. But if you don’t give the kite enough string, it’ll never fly as high as it can. That’s what our company does. We hold the string—not too tight, not too loose. The kite is the creator. And the flight of the kite is the creativity.”
There’s a creative way of looking at the synergy of writers and publishers.