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Originally Posted by fjtorres
Cash bonuses >> wine-n-dine.
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Are you saying that cash bonuses do actually lead to the wine and the dine and the Dassault Falcon ride home?
If so, I did come across
one example that arguably confirms it:
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Hugh Howey, a self-published science fiction novelist who is one of Amazon’s most dedicated defenders, is in Santa Fe but said he had not wanted to go.
“I asked not to be invited back this year, as I want to be able to speak my mind and not have any hint of a quid pro quo,” he wrote in an email.
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My view is that changing one's mind is no sin. But I wonder what jokes you guys would make if Hachette had a comparable shindig, and James Patterson said he asked not to be invited but went anyway.