Bill Crider (abc@wt.net)
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 17:41:31 -0500 (CDT)
Thanks to Mark Sullivan for reprinting Mark Monlux's remarks
about paperbacks. (The Monlux site is really good, and I
second Mark Sullivan's recommendation.) I've been whining
about the size of books for years now, but it's true the
people want something they can use for a doorstop these days.
Or at least the publishers think it's true. One writer who
bucks the trend is Joe Lansdale, who continues to write at
about Gold Medal length. His latest, FREEZER BURN, should be
out any day now. I asked him about it when it was in
progress, and he described it as "Flannery O'Connor and James
M. Cain screwing in a ditch." I've read about half of it, and
I'd have to say he was pretty accurate. Robert B. Parker
writes short, too, but the publishers give him the big
margins, thick paper, big type treatment so that his 60,000
word books look much, much longer.
Bill Crider
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