Author! Author!
Anybody wanting to understand greed could do worse than study book tours
|LOS ANGELES
PRESSING the flesh and parading on stage come naturally to politicians, actors and pop stars. But most authors are by nature bookworms, happiest in cloistered seclusion. The only thing that can put them on the public stage is greed for fame and royalties.
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