CONTENTS

Page

Prologue 5 Dedication 7 Preface 13 1. The Beginning Of A

Glorious New Career 19
2. Desperately Needing
A Change Of Pace! 81
3. Selling Articles
To Get Some
Quick Cash 99 4. Annual Trips To Meet
New York Editors 111
5. A Major Change -
Typewriters To Computers 129 6. More On My Writing Career 151 7. Trips Cross-Country
As A Writer 161 8. My Disastrous First And
Last Book Store Book Signing Experience 181 9. A Series Of Wonderful
Writing Years! 189 10. The End And
A New Beginning 251 11. No! It Wasn’t Over Yet! 265 12. Books I’ve
Had Published 279 13. Syndicated
Newspaper Columns 299 14. Voodoo Van
Cross-Country
Book Promotion Trip 307
15. Comparisons
Between Methods
Of Book Publishing 341
16. Don’t Think In A Box 353 17. Understanding and
Surviving Rejections 375
18. Pet Peeves Of Magazine
And Book Editors 387 Epilogue 399 Index 401 How to Order 440