Bill Crider wrote:
> James Reasoner (and he can correct me if I'm wrong
about this) saw my name
> and address in The Mystery FANcier and noticed that
I was living at that
> time in Brownwood.
I'm thinking it was a fanzine called The Not So Private Eye,
published by Andy Jaysnovitch. That was my introduction to
mystery fandom. I don't remember where I saw it advertised,
but I bought the first dozen or so issues from Andy at one
time and saw a bunch of letters and reviews from some guy in
Brownwood. I remember going through the issues and making a
list of authors I'd never heard of, like Jonathan Latimer. I
*think* I know where those fanzines are, but it would take a
day of digging to uncover them.
>He had relatives in Brown County, and it wasn't
long
> before we were exchanging letters. Before too long
we'd met in person,
and
> I still have a photograph of James, me, and my kids
standing at the grave
of
> Robert E. Howard in Brownwood's Greenleaf
Cemetery.
The kids have grown up since then, but Bill and I haven't
aged a day.
> James's father sold TVs
> and VCRs, and I bought my first VCR from him. James
delivered it and
> installed it. James and I, like Joe and I, have been
friends ever since
> those days.
>
> I paid for the VCR with my half of the advance from
THE COYOTE CONNECTION,
a
> Nick Carter book I wrote with a friend (Jack Davis).
It was my first
novel,
> and it came out in January 1981, at about the same
time Joe's ACT OF LOVE
> and James's TEXAS WIND hit the stands. (Note for our
younger readers: in
> those days a top-of-the-line VCR with a wired remote
ran about $1000.)
Yes, but you could tape a whole *two hours* on one of those
babies.
I thought of another very noir book with a Southwestern
setting: ARIZONA KISS by Ray Ring.
James
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