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2000, Condé Nast, Conde, Inc., Jane, Karthik, magazine, mtk, Nast, Shanti, short, story, thyagarajan
Condé Nast, Inc., featured my short story, Shanti, in the January/February 2000 issue of JANE magazine, which it had very recently purchased from Fairchild Publishing.
This was the very first issue of Jane as published by CN.
I can remember feeling thrilled because my check had the logo of The New Yorker prominently printed on it – as a design element! My one and only check from CN in the 1990’s.
I got paid on December 31, 1999 to be exact. Which means this may have been the last piece of fiction published by Condé Nast, Inc., in the 20th century – no idea if so, I just know the first thing I bought was a pair of long, camel-colored boots for my editor, and the second was rent in Brooklyn.
I was paid what I asked for as a freelance writer with the intention of setting a rate: $1 a word.
Shanti is a chapter in my first novel, Mood [1997]