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Sushi Deluxe

Every other month I have lunch with my agents’ group. We call ourselves ETA, which stands for editors turned agent. That’s right, all of us, at one time or another, were gainfully employed as editors. And all of us joined the dark side. I look forward to these lunches because we are all like-minded having similar backgrounds in editorial. But the real reason is the superb gossip, character assassination and publisher bashing. It’s a bloodletting with sushi and diet cokes. Sometimes we’ll even debate the meaning of a contract clause or compare discount percentages! Good times. Today, the sushi was exceptionally good.

2 Responses

  1. “It’s a bloodletting with sushi and diet cokes.”

    *laughs*

    Perhaps one day a thinly-veiled novel will come out of this group? 🙂

  2. How fun! Oh, I wish I were there.

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