When it finished, people were whispering at each other as we waited to hear from them. Mordecai, one of the junior executives, asked us to come with him. He waved to Erik to follow, and we gathered in the lobby. "Off the record, I loved your show, and my girls would go wild for it," he said. "Erik and I are going to take you to lunch while the bigshots put together a proposal for you."

"That's good, right?" Amy hadn't talked much, but she had a good read on people. She spent the meeting watching their reactions, not the shows.

"Very good. Basic salesman stuff; never let them leave...