Friday, December 10, 2010

The Empty Chair

On Wednesday Dec. 1, 2010 at 10:37 a.m. Steve and I took the two seats at the head of the 14th floor conference table, in the Random House building in midtown New York. Steve was in the left chair. I was on the right. Counterclockwise from me sat the head of Crown’s eBook group, then Steve’s editor, Steve’s editor’s assistant taking notes, an empty chair, Crown’s head of marketing, Steve’s in-house publicist, the head of Crown’s publicity department, and then back to Steve. We were told that the publisher was stuck on a call but would be in as soon as she could. She asked that we start without her.

Uh oh . . . Not a good start.

Read the rest of Shawn Coyne's post at Steven Pressfield's blog.

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