On separate occasions I took Sam Moskowitz and Darrell
Richardson to the Peachtree Book Store. Neither found
anything, of course, but it was an experience watching them
go through the shelves. They seemed to know something about
every book in there.
My story in Mike Shayne was an
Armadillo story, of course. The editor, Charles Fritch asked
me to try my hand at a more serious mystery-man story and I
began work on it, but the magazine folded before I could
finish it.
Jerry
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Moore
To:
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2008 11:03 PM
Subject: Re: RARA-AVIS: Gerald Page
Welcome, Jerry! Jerry and I used to haunt the
same used bookstores in
Atlanta in the 1960s and 1970s. Those were the
days when used
paperbacks were two for a quarter (okay, a little
more by the late
1960s) at the Peachtree Book Store and there was
always Cantrell's on
the square in Decatur where he gave out wooden
nickels as promotional
items. As I mentioned recently, Books Again on
McDonough Street in
Decatur is my current favorite.
I was just at Curt Phillips' house and saw his
copy of the Mike Shayne
issue with your story. I sold several stories to
MSMM back then but
some how I must have missed that issue.
Richard Moore
--- In
rara-avis-l@yahoogroups.com, "Gerald W Page"
<geraldpage@...>
wrote:
>
> I was just getting ready to introduce myself to the
group.
> I'm Jerry Page; I've been writing and editing under
the name
Gerald Page since the 1960s, mostly science
fiction and fantasy, but I
did appear in Mike Shayne's Mystery Magazine
toward its end. In the 70s
I was the editor for DAW Books of the annual The
Year's Best Horror
Stories anthologies.
>
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