If you're interested in the ongoing Amazon/Hatchette imbroglio, you might also be interested in this little essay, written long, long ago, which I think shows a few parallels. Allan Guthrie's NOIR ORIGINALS: PAPERBACK ORIGINALS
by Bill Crider
I wouldn't've guessed that the Jakes BICENTENNIAL series began as long ago as '71, or was that a revision entry in the article?
I'm reminded of the friction that arose between Marijane Meaker, writing most often then as Vin Packer for Gold Medal, and her life-partner/all-but-wife Patricia Highsmith in the late '50s, as Meaker was pulling down serious money, but critical attention pretty much limited to the not-insignificant Anthony Boucher/H. H. Holmes in his NYC papers gigs, and Highsmith was being praised to the skies nearly universally and making pathetic money in comparison, at least, from her consistent publication by Knopf.
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I wouldn't've guessed that the Jakes BICENTENNIAL series began as long ago as '71, or was that a revision entry in the article?
I'm reminded of the friction that arose between Marijane Meaker, writing most often then as Vin Packer for Gold Medal, and her life-partner/all-but-wife Patricia Highsmith in the late '50s, as Meaker was pulling down serious money, but critical attention pretty much limited to the not-insignificant Anthony Boucher/H. H. Holmes in his NYC papers gigs, and Highsmith was being praised to the skies nearly universally and making pathetic money in comparison, at least, from her consistent publication by Knopf.
I honestly don't remember when I added that bicentennial bit, but that series didn't begin until '74.
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