Epic:
Jarred Weisfeld was just about ready to file his $10 million
                        defamation suit against Macmillan Publishers when he brought Rod
                        Blagojevich to their building to see if St. Martin’s Press, the big
                        commercial unit there, might want to publish the former Illinois
                        governor’s memoir.
“I was completely upfront with them,” the agent said
                        recently. “I said, ‘Hey, look, I’m gonna be suing you guys in a few
                        days—is this gonna have any effect on my client?’ They said the two
                        things had nothing to do with each other.”