Bill Crider wrote:
> The reason Gold Medal paid so well was that they
paid a royalty on the
print
> run, not on copies sold. Some of those guys, like
Prather (and even guys
> you may never have heard of, like Richard Himmel)
were selling in the
> millions, so the print runs must have been
huge.
********** Yes! In Meaker's HIGHSMITH, they do a 400,000
reprint of Meaker's THE TWISTED ONES, and she got an instant
check for $8,000. No fuss, no muss. As you might imagine,
there are a lot of interesting literary side stories in
Meaker's new book.
miker
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