On 3 March 2003,
abc@wt.net wrote:
: Bill, I think John D. MacDonald regretted having written NO
DEADLY DRUG.
: It required a lot of time and research and didn't sell very
many copies.
: As I recall, JDM said he could have used that time better
if he'd
: written a couple of McGee novels instead.
Or more--it's the size of about three McGe books. He thanks
an assistant, but no matter how it was done it must have
taken tons of time to research, and just to write. Even if he
had typists, it's laborious to take
"BAILEY: And what did you do next?" in a transcript and turn
it into,
"Bailey rose slowly from his chair and advanced on the
witness. 'And what did you do next?' he drawled." And with so
much of the material already given, I wonder how much of
JDM's stamp it bears.
Bill
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