Box Office Poison

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I had a lot of help writing this book: Daniel Abraham, Ty Frank, and Walter Jon Williams, who helped me with the initial plot break, because I can’t do these without a blueprint. My friend and lawyer, Christie Carbon-Gaul, who talked to me about arbitrations and sent me the AAA Commercial Arbitration Rules and Mediation Procedures. Ian Tregillis, for being my beta reader and letting me talk through scenes when I got confused and who offered sage advice on how to fix problems. Thanks to you all.

I looked out the plane’s window at Los Angeles, and it looked like any other airport. No palm trees in evidence. No movie stars strolling across the tarmac toward private jets. No surfboards. The only difference between LAX and LaGuardia was the lack of snow.

It was my first trip to the West Coast and I should have been excited. Instead I slumped in my window seat back in steerage and contemplated my exhaustion. I had gotten up at three a.m. so I could brave a blizzard and reach LaGuardia by four thirty so I could catch a six a.m. flight to California. Six and a half hours in coach, and I didn’t even get to sleep because I’d been pulled into this arbitration at the last minute by one of the partners at my law firm and I had to review the pleadings.

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