>
>
> Thanks, Doug, for the comments on the Spillane book.
I heard Browne
tell
> about the story in Fantastic when he was at the
Bouchercon in
Monterey.
> As I recall (and we all know how reliable _that_
is), he implied that
> he did it without any input from Spillane at
all.
>
> Bill Crider
> --
I don't recall where I saw the anecdote, it may've been here
even but according to Browne he'd asked Spillane's manager if
Spillane would write a fantasy story for a rather piddling
fee by the Mick's usual standards. The agent replied that
Spillane didn' work for that kind of cabbage but he did say
he had a real stinker of a story that everyone in creation
had rejected. When Browne read it, he found it unpublishable
& somehow wrangled the agent into letting him completely
rewrite the story from scratch while advertising it as a
Spillane story. Apparently, sales for that issue of Fantastic
went through the roof.
Rene
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