“It’s about what I’ve been saying,” Rod had answered. Being upstaged by Julia was hard on his ego, but instead of objecting he’d decided to join forces with her. “That’s why I suggested the one-percent royalty bonus, after earn-out, to all editors. If they bring in something that sells fifty-thousand hardcovers, they’d get around twelve thou. And with a movie deal, who knows? But with that incentive I think they’ll chase the market.”
And Julia Barnum-Panuzio had chased the market, had indeed defined the market for tiny Gallina Books, and as a bonus she had been promoted to executive senior editor. With her rise to power, her ideas and vision had transformed the small, conservative (she called it stuffy) and independent house into a new, progressive business entity—Gallina Publishing: A Po
