Wonderful people in bureaucratic straitjackets - that's publishing, writes Martin Lindstrom
The time was 5pm, and I had one hour left to meet the deadline for my next big book.
Don't be mistaken, this wasn't my first deadline. Not that I'd missed the first deadline. In fact, I'd already delivered the manuscript, had it all signed off, witnessed the legal folks scrutinise every line, had the book typeset, and waited while 50,000 copies went through the printing press. Then Covid-19 arrived.