Clive Cussler and Dirk Pitt Revealed By Clive Cussler with Craig ...

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It seems it had been written and sent to theMonitor by the superintendent of sewers for the city of
Muncie, Indiana. I've saved that one for posterity.
CRAIG DIRGO:So it would seem at this point you had it made.
CLIVE CUSSLER:Things were better, that's for sure.
When the first royalty check came in, Barbara, the kids and I celebrated by buying a new refrigerator
and a used Fiat sports car.
Then I went back to my corner of the basement and startedVixen 03 , but not before Barbara and I
flew to New York to meet my new editor and publisher. Our arrival in the Big Apple was timely. Peter
had just concluded negotiations to sellRaise the Titanic! to Lord Lew Grade and Martin Stagger of
Marble Arch Productions to be made into a motion picture.
To celebrate, Peter and his lovely wife, Diane, and Barbara and I went out to dinner at a restaurant
called Sign of the Dove. While waiting for dessert, I turned to Barbara and said, "I think the time has
come."
Peter and I had now been together for six years, and he had persisted through all the rejections,
believing in me, until we finally achieved a breakthrough. He has always possessed a ton of integrity, and
I had been reluctant to tell him about Charlie Winthrop for fear he might drop me. But now I was his
biggest client and knew he would think twice before making such a decision. I confessed my scam to get
him to read my manuscripts with great trepidation.
When I finished, Peter looked blank for a moment and then laughed himself under the table.
When he recovered, he said, "Oh my God. I always thought Charlie Winthrop was some guy I met
when I was drunk at a cocktail party."
Peter and I have been together now for twenty nine years. We have the second-longest-running
agent-author relationship behind the thirty-one-year association of Henry Morrison and Robert Ludlum.