March 21, 2011

When anonymous bloggers return. . .

I follow three terrific blog with two  things in common.  The first is that they are written anonymously, the second is that the authors of the blogs all took an extended hiatus and CAME BACK around the same time.  The only obvious conclusion is that they are the SAME PERSON! 

How else would they coordinate disappearing and reappearing at the same time?  The only other solution is that they come from an anonymous office pool that had trouble in the economy, so they had to let some folks go.  Maybe they recently hired some new folks to blog on these blogs. 

Here is the list of blogs:

The Intern
In her words: "THE INTERN was the unpaid toiler on the publishing house floor, licking stamps, reading slush, and copy-editing your train-wreck of a manuscript (for free) because the "real" copyeditor is down with the genital crabs."

Editorial Ass
In her words: "I'm a recovering editorial assistant. I'm like most of my kind: impoverished coffee-and-gin survivalists, underpaid but ambitious, bitter but hopeful."

Editorial Anonymous
In her words: "Editorial Anonymous' anecdotes are mostly true. Names of authors, illustrators, editors, agents, publishers, manuscripts, and a few random nouns have been changed to protect her ass"

You tell me you don't see the commonalities between these three blogs?  Am I right, are these written by the same person?  Maybe by her past, present, and future self?  Or were they written by Romanian techies hired through ODesk

I'm sure there's a conspiracy theory here, will you help me figure it out?

ttl

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