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Executive pay, a melamine mustache, and other observations

What if CEOs of public companies only got paid in stock? And when they retire, they can cash it all in. Sure would be an incentive to run a company responsibly, right? And if there’s stock manipulation and mismanagement a la Enron, they have to give it all back. Any other parents out there grimly happy that the Chinese government will be both ruthless and pragmatic when it comes to punishing the businessmen who poisoned Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Narnia for grownups

One of the things that I’ve always had trouble with was how to describe my own book. I managed to come up with this description while in the bar at Apollocon, with Chris Roberson, Space Squid * Nemesis Mikal Trimm, and a bunch of other people who I don’t remember. (probably John Picaccio, Matthew Bey, JM McDermott, and Lou Anders, but I couldn’t swear to it.) Chris was like, “just say it, just say it!”** Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago

Book 2 sent to publisher — or, how did I get here?

After slightly less than a year of more or less feverish writing, I sent the ms. for Book 2 off to the editor. It clocks in at just more than 102,000 words. However, I wrote about 160,000 words total. I have a discard file of ugly prose, wrong turns, bad plot twists, and horrible mistakes of about 58,000 words. I kept the file knowing I would go to it to put stuff back in, and Read more…

By Patrice Sarath, ago