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Random House
Martha Sherrill had the subject of her memoir: her father, Peter, a well-known polling expert and software company founder; she had the book contract, with Random House, which paid her a healthy advance. Though she received an advance for the novel from Penguin Press, it was only about two-thirds the size of the advance from Random House several years earlier for the memoir. Because she jumped from one publisher to another, following her editor, Ann Godoff, from Random House to Penguin Press, she has to pay back the original advance.