I can't resist the chance to add a comment about Bill Gault.
Anyone who has enjoyed his crime novels should also try his
young adult sports novels. Excellent work. Bill had always
written a lot of stories for the sports pulps, and when he
wrote the novels his heart poured out all over his sleeves. I
met William R. Cox through Gault, and the two of them had
frequent conversations via telephone. For entertainment, they
argued. Cox always felt he had the upper hand because he was
taller than Gault. Gault didn't particularly care. Years
back, at a Bouchercon in San Francisco, the western pulp
writer Tommy Thompson was coincidentally also at the host
hotel for an anniversary trip with his wife. I got Thompson
and Gault together and watched as they took turns imitating
Cox, another lion, and certainly one of the great producer of
pulp wordage. Gault was direct, honest, and uncommonly poetic
and those qualities are there in everything he ever
wrote.
David Laurence Wilson
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