![]() ![]() I had just delivered a book the editor loved but now it was being returned, and my deal for two more Hellers rescinded – victim of one of the periodic changes of regimes so common in publishing. I called my agent, on that day before Thanksgiving, to give him the bad news about losing Tracy he countered with more of the same: my current book contract had just been canceled.Ī week or so before, the latest Nathan Heller novel, Stolen Away, had won the series another "Shamus" award, after which my Bantam Books editor had spent a three-hour one-on-one lunch with me, charting the glorious future of Heller at that publishing house. A few months before, on the phone, I had told this editor, with no expletives deleted, what I thought of him, his ideas and his abilities – yet I had refused to see the handwriting on the wall (my wife Barb, on the other hand, overhearing me reaming my boss on the phone, had already begun searching through the want ads for a part-time job). ![]() ![]() I had tangled several times with an editor at TMS (who had replaced the editor who hired me). Then in the mail, the day before Thanksgiving, Tribune Media Services curtly informed me my services would no longer be needed. ![]()
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