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rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Saturday, August 03, 2002
3:08 AM Subject: RARA-AVIS: Gold Medal question
> The answer to this question is surely on some
website, but I thought I'd
ask
> and maybe Bill Crider or James Reasoner or another
could tell us what they
> know:
>
> What's the history and current status of Gold Medal?
It seemed to me that
> for a while there were Fawcett-Gold Medal books that
weren't yellow and
> didn't have the medal on them. Seemed too that the
publisher was in
> Greenwich, Connecticut, for a while. Is it now just
a defunct brand of
> Bertlesmann or some such?
>
> Doug
Gold Medal existed as an imprint until the mid-Nineties,
anyway. At that time it was used on Fawcett's Western line. A
couple of years ago, Fawcett reissued a few of those titles
(Ed Gorman's WOLF MOON and THE SHARPSHOOTER, and at least one
of Marvin Albert's Westerns) and I think those were still
Gold Medal books. Don't recall seeing any since then.
The second book that Livia and I wrote, a historical romance,
was published by Gold Medal in 1983. When we signed the
contract, Gold Medal was still owned by CBS Publications. By
the time the book actually came out, Gold Medal was owned by
Ballantine, which was in turned owned by Random House. The
medal logo was long gone by then, but the book still said
Fawcett Gold Medal (though in very small type).
I think the medal disappeared sometime in the Sixties, maybe
the Seventies. GM started in New York, moved to Greenwich
sometime in the Fifties, but the books that came out of
Greenwich were still yellow and still had the medal. The
medal vanished from the spine first and then later from the
cover
Best, James
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