I was just out of college in the fifties and unaware or
thoughtless about any historical implications of anything. I
was just having fun, finding my gay crowd, learning how to
live in NYC. Although there were restrictions concerning how
I ended Spring Fire, due to postal regulations, my life was
full of restrictions as all gays' lives were. I was simply
glad to have my first book published, and the money was good.
My main interest was never in lesbian pulps though. I did far
more suspense books, about eighteen more. We didn't think of
ourselves as pulp writers. That was a term for magazine
writers who sold mystery stories at a penny a word. We got a
penny a copy and usual printing was 400,000. We were much
better paid than hardcover writers. We called ourselves
paperback writers. Pulp came from some source not there, many
years later. No, I don't read the old vin packers. I loved
writing them, but I have too many writers I want to read them
my old self over again. Cheers.
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