Author Michael Lewis garners a lot of attention for the release today of FLASH BOYS (including this excerpt in the NYT Magazine). He tells NY Magazine he finished the manuscript two months ago. “Lewis says he turned down large advances to remain with his longtime editor, Norton head Starling Lawrence, and for his last two books, he’s taken no book advance at all. ‘I like the risk,’ he says. ‘Most writers treat their publishers as banks — very expensive banks. Norton is owned by its employees, and I feel sometimes responsible for their financial well-being. When they give me a bunch of money it’s even worse.‘” Amazon Studios has ordered a full […]