----- Original Message ----- From: "William Denton" <
buff@pobox.com> To: "RARA-AVIS" <
rara-avis@icomm.ca> Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000
9:58 AM Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Mike Shayne Month!
> It sounds like it was a really solid magazine, with
lots of good stories.
> I looked around some of the fictionmags magazine
lists and found a few
> content listings of some later MSMMs:
>
> http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/msf/b13.htm#A329
> and http://users.ev1.net/~homeville/msf/b14.htm#TOP
>
> The first page links to content listings for January
- Setpember 1980, and
> all the novellas are by you. Lots of other familiar
names listed too. The
> second page covers all the issues from then to
1985.
These lists are pretty good. I hadn't looked at them before.
Thanks. As you can see, Fritch liked to use stories by
writers who are better known for horror than mysteries, such
as Richard Laymon and Dennis Etchison. Joe Lansdale published
quite a bit in MSMM, too. A guy named William Fieldhouse
wrote a good series about an Army CID investigator in what
was then West Germany. I enjoyed those stories a lot.
Fieldhouse went on to do a few pretty good Westerns and then
a ton of house-name men's adventure stuff.
> : While I was writing Shaynes I was also
corresponding with Mike
> : Avallone and Dennis Lynds ...
>
> What sort of stuff would you discuss? How work was
going and where you
> were selling, that sort of thing?
Yeah, just the usual stuff. Lots of bitching about the state
of the business, which writers always do no matter how things
are going. Lynds gave me some great advice: "All your dreams
do come true, it just takes about ten years longer than you
think it should."
> It's great hearing you talk about your work at
MSMM.
I appreciate the opportunity.
> By the way, I just got some e-mail from an Italian
who's writing a thesis
> on "the double" in Lynds' work and wondered if I
knew of any books about
> him or had his e-mail address. I said I didn't, but
now I remember that
> his wife, a successful writer, has a web site up.
Does anyone remember
> the URL?
http://www.nettrends.com/gaylelynds/
There's an e-mail link for Gayle on the site. I'm sure she
could put the Italian guy in touch with Dennis.
Best, James
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