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I checked with my agent because my London editor wasn't in her office. He said that everyone in the London division of his office was OK, and he thought he'd have heard if anyone in publishing had been hurt.
Of course awful things happen all the time where people are killed, but it seems worse, at least to me, when they're caused by deliberate action rather than accident or nature. I think it's much harder for the survivors to deal with when they can't say, "Well, these things have to happen and I was just unlucky," when it wasn't an inherent part of the system (cars must crash and rivers must flood), and never had to happen at all.
ETA: Everyone at Hodder & Stoughton (my English publisher) is OK.
Of course awful things happen all the time where people are killed, but it seems worse, at least to me, when they're caused by deliberate action rather than accident or nature. I think it's much harder for the survivors to deal with when they can't say, "Well, these things have to happen and I was just unlucky," when it wasn't an inherent part of the system (cars must crash and rivers must flood), and never had to happen at all.
ETA: Everyone at Hodder & Stoughton (my English publisher) is OK.