Posted on 09/06/06
From adman to author
James Othmer was sitting as his desk at the advertising agency Young & Rubicam in New York when the call came that would save him from yet another round of changes on a deodorant commercial. Three publishers were bidding on the rights to his first novel and Doubleday was willing to pay a sum that he wouldn't name, other than to say it let him quit his day job five months later.
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