Donald A. Wollheim, DAW Books, and Me

Donald A. Wollheim, DAW Books, and Me

MOST PEOPLE ARE UNAWARE that I’m the author of the first DAW novel. The reason that fact is not well know is fairly straightforward. Don wanted to start his new line with some big names. He persuaded two of the then biggest, Andre Norton and A.E. van Vogt, to...
Who Really Wrote Hard Choices?

Who Really Wrote Hard Choices?

WHILE HILLARY CLINTON was on her recent Hard Choices book tour, a writer/editor I know asked a perhaps difficult question: Who, he wondered, wrote it for her? Clearly, the writer presumed Hillary had not in fact written the book she was signing as her own. Having a...
When You Have a Choice . . .

When You Have a Choice . . .

PEOPLE OTHER THAN his devoted fans know Leonard Cohen primarily thru a few of his songs that became major hits, prominent among them “Suzanne”, “Bird On The Wire”, “Marianne” and “Hallelujah”. Many others, including some...