The quotation below is from a letter John Faulkner wrote to
Richard Carroll, his editor at Gold Medal. It tells you a
little about the way writers felt about the new paperback
originals.
Bill Crider
"Now let me sell you on Gold Medal. Octavus Roy Cohen wrote
you a letter that you printed in one of his books wherein he
stated his pleasure in writing 'with his gloves off.' That
means a lot to a writer. Gold Medal is the only place I know
that gives a writer the leeway you do. About your only
restriction is the number of words. I hate that on some of my
stories but I realize the necessity for it and I've always
said any piece of writing I ever saw would be better for some
cutting. I believe your policy fits in with an experiment
I've long wanted to see tried; Who is right? The editor or
the guy who writes the story? From what 1 know of Gold
Medal's policy I think it is closest to giving the reading
public writers' stories. As to books that can be put on your
shelves and saved, a man is lucky if he finds one of that
kind per hundred books he reads. A hundred hardbacks costs
you two fifty to three hundred. For twenty-five dollars you
can get a hundred paperbacks and if you find one you like you
can have it bound to keep. Gold Medal suits me. I believe
you've got closer to every writer's dream than you
know.
"
-- # To unsubscribe from the regular list, say "unsubscribe rara-avis" to # majordomo@icomm.ca. This will not work for the digest version. # The web pages for the list are at http://www.miskatonic.org/rara-avis/ .
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : 01 Aug 2002 EDT