Alot of people confuse paperback and pulp. I always hate to
see Patricia Highsmith listed as a pulp writer or a paperback
writer. All of her books were published first in hardcover,
unlike my own. Pulp writers to me wrote for magazines like
Black Mask at a penny a word. Gold Medal paperback writers
were paid by the print order, a penny a copy, with the print
order usually 400,000 a good deal more than most hardcover
writers got...Some of the confusion lies in the fact there
were a lot of cheap paperback houses which published junk.
Gold Medal set the standard, then Lion Books and some others
followed. Vin Packer
Michael Robison <
miker_zspider@yahoo.com> wrote:
> A lot of people, including some close to the
genre,
> have an expanded idea of pulp that encompasses a
style
> more than a time period and cheap paper. There's
a
> "pulp" collection (MAMMOTH BOOK OF PULP FICTION?)
that
> contains fiction written long after the end of
WWII.
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