Frankly, I just wanted to see my name on the spine of a book. That had been my main motivation for at least 20 years, and not a day passed that I didn't read or write something with that goal in mind. So when I finally sold a book (Primary Justice) to Ballantine, part of Random House, the largest publisher in the English-speaking world (then), I was pleased. I didn't expect my first book to be a bestseller. I thought it would be a nice foot-in-the-door that might lead to greater things. I don't think the publisher expected all that much either, given the small first printing. But then there was a second printing, then a third, and then an eighth...
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