Shame
“What she had imagined would be no more than five minutes of messages had turned into an hour’s worth and counting. She was the media’s flavor of the day. Everyone wanted her comments on the new Shame murders, or if not everyone, at least forty-six of her first forty-nine callers. She wrote down yet another name and number on a page filled with people to call back and imagined her publicist probably had a list twice as long.
“...Jeremy Levett. You might remember we had you on our show, Good Morn...ing, Omaha, when you were promoting your last book....”
The unspoken message was, “We scratched your back, now it’s time for you to scratch ours.” They had publicized her books in the past and would in the future, but for that they expected their piece of her now.
“We’d like to do an on-air spot tomorrow. Call me at my home number, would you? Look forward to talking....”
She wasn’t listening closely. Virtually all the messages were the same. She probably should have been working and listening at the same time, but she hadn’t wanted to delve any further into her old Gray Parker files.MoreLess
“...Jeremy Levett. You might remember we had you on our show, Good Morn...ing, Omaha, when you were promoting your last book....”
The unspoken message was, “We scratched your back, now it’s time for you to scratch ours.” They had publicized her books in the past and would in the future, but for that they expected their piece of her now.
“We’d like to do an on-air spot tomorrow. Call me at my home number, would you? Look forward to talking....”
She wasn’t listening closely. Virtually all the messages were the same. She probably should have been working and listening at the same time, but she hadn’t wanted to delve any further into her old Gray Parker files.MoreLess
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