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::::::::::::::::::::142 Columbia Heights<br /> | |||
::::::::::::::::::::Brooklyn 1, New York<br /> | |||
::::::::::::::::::::October 15, 1963 | |||
Dear Alan,<ref>Earney was an editor at Transworld Publishers Limited, which under the Corgi imprint published the British soft cover edition of ''Advertisements for Myself'' in 1963.</ref> | |||
I was quite pleased with the cover of ''[[Advertisements for Myself|Advertisements]]'' that you put out. You really do good jackets over at Corgi, and if ''Advertisements'' doesn’t do well, the physical production of the book can hardly be blamed. | |||
:::::::::::::::Cordially,<br /> | But now I have a bit of news which I expect will prove upsetting to you. Caught in a financial situation which seemed to offer no issue, I talked Walter Minton into releasing me for one novel, and I’m now going to do a serial which will be printed in ten-thousand-word installments over the next eight months. I also signed a contract with [[w:Dial Press|Dial]] and [[w:Dell Publishing|Dell]] for hard cover and paperback rights and they agreed to pay a vast, indeed an unbelievable sum for the book. As part of the arrangements they insisted upon buying the English paperback rights for a paperback company which is their subsidiary or associate in England. I did my best to try to strike this last clause, because as I say I’ve been quite pleased with the way you’ve presented my books. In fact, as I all but told [[w:Victor Weybright|Victor Weybright]],<ref>Victor Weybright was an editor at Andre Deutsch.</ref> you were doing a tastier job. But the amount of money was so vast and indeed the amount offered by the English paperback company was so great, that I was not able to afford to refuse this extra specification of the English rights. Indeed there was not even opportunity to consult you, for the transaction took place in a record forty-eight hours. The wheeling and dealing was much like Hollywood. While I know this news can give you small pleasure, I would like to repeat that I have no ill feeling towards your house—quite the contrary—and expect that we’ll be together again after this serial is published. | ||
:::::::::::::::Norman Mailer | |||
::::::::::::::::::::Cordially,<br /> | |||
::::::::::::::::::::Norman Mailer | |||
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