Having met you, Bill, and thus knowing that you are a
complete gentleman, and having met Lansdale, and knowing that
along with also being a gentleman that, while he is not a
large man, he seems like someone who could take care of
himself even without having mastered several martial arts, I
think we should all reflect on the capabilities of all human
beings under certain stimuli...and be careful about which
irresistable objects and undeniable yearnings we get
between.
So...what was the Canadian magazine? And who's done the book?
TM (about to net-search)
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Joe Lansdale is so popular these days, that there's someone
willing to publish anything he's ever written. I expect his
grocery lists to appear sometime next year. Anyway, someone
has now published the dregs of his fictional output. I'd tell
you the title if I could remember it. At any rate, once upon
a time in the very distant past, Joe and I collaborated on a
couple of short stories, one of which actually sold to some
Canadian publication after being rejected by everyone in the
U.S. and one magazine in Ireland. What does this have to do
with Gold Medal Books? Well, Joe wrote a new introduction to
the stories, and he tells about an experience he and I had a
few years ago in a Half-Price Books when he got between me
and a shelf full of Gold Medals. Joe is a member of two or
three martial arts halls of fame and in fact runs a martial
arts school and has created his own style of fighting, but
suffice it to say that I (an out-of-shape teacher) kicked his
ass. I don't think he got a single book. And the best part is
that they were all half of the cover price. Not to mention
that I had an educator's discount card and got an additional
10% off.
Bill Crider
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