These Gravely Digs of Mine

You read my mind. (Actually, there's nothing funnier than Shadows of the Empire novelist Steve Perry actually bragging about how nobody can take away his listing as a "New York Times Bestselling Author" for grunting out Star Wars novels. I crashed a panel of his twelve years ago, and the only thing funnier than listening to him blather about how he got to play in George Lucas's and Gene Roddenberry's universes was listening to him scream and yell about Bantam Spectra's then-new royalty policy. See, Lucasfilm had increased the royalties it expected from Bantam, and Bantam had no choice but to change its royalty rates to authors. Instead of paying $40k and a percentage of sales, authors got paid a straight $60k, and Perry spent that entire weekend screaming about how unfair Bantam Spectra was being, without once acknowledging why BS had to do so.)