Once an editor handed me a raw deal, and I went with a howl to my friend Bill for advice. He was a writer of twenty years’ experience, and a man of wisdom. He heard my howl, and then smiled.
“Remember one thing,” he said. “Before you do or say anything rash, just reflect that the editor is the man that sends out the checks.”
(H. Bedford-Jones, This Writing Business, 1929)
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The Master of Dragons
Henry Bedford-Jones was known as King of the Pulps – the sort of man that writes two novels at the same time, working on two typewriters*.
Bedford-Jones loved Dumas, and if historical adventure was probably is preferred field, he also wrote any other kind of story he was able to sell to the pulps.
A real pulp writer, he had a dozen pen names.
One of the best, earlier finds of this year is the reprints of H. Bedford-Jones stories by pulp specialists Black Dog Books, which complement the meagre selection of stories in the public domain found through the Gutenberg Project and its Australian counterpart.
The Master of Dragons collects the stories starring O’Neil and Burke, two American adventurers that find themselves in the employ of the self-styled Governor of Szechwan in the 1920s. Continue reading
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