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Steven J. McDermott has bounced around western Washington most of his life with stints in California and Scotland adding seasoning. He currently lives on the easternmost of the San Juan Islands with his wife Therese. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from Antioch University Los Angeles, and his BA in English and Philosophy (with a minor in Anthropology) from Western Washington University. His short stories have been published in online and print journals such as Aethlon: The Journal of Sports Literature, Carve, Passages North, Red Wheelbarrow, The Rockford Review, Timbercreek Review, Westview, and most recently in The Angler, Scarecrow, Thieves Jargon, SmokeLong Quarterly, Word Riot, and elimae.

Paperback Writer

The Beatles nailed the sentiment with their song Paperback Writer: “It’s a dirty story of a dirty man . . . but I need a break and I want to be a paperback writer.” Ah, the dream to write pulp fiction at a penny a word!

One of the things I find most amazing about that era of pulp fiction writing is the speed with which those writers wrote those novels. Robert Silverberg, for example, says:
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Published on January 11, 2015 14:52
Average rating: 3.44 · 9 ratings · 2 reviews · 1 distinct work
Winter of Different Directions

3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2007 — 5 editions
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Steven Most recently I scored a bunch of 1st editions at the Seattle Mystery Book Store, Powells in Portland, and Robert's Books in Lincoln City, OR. And then I bought some from individual sellers on Amazon. And also got lucky at a few garage sales and at the Fremont Market in Seattle. But I'm not always reading the originals, just linking to those editions because the covers are cool. But I do have a lot of the originals. Wish now I kept all the ones I had in junior high! But heck they were disposable pulp fiction :-(

Corey wrote: "You're obviously on a pulp fiction quest but where are you finding all these old ones with their wonderfully lurid covers?"


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Corey You're obviously on a pulp fiction quest but where are you finding all these old ones with their wonderfully lurid covers?


message 1: by Katrina (last edited Aug 25, 2016 11:25AM)

Katrina Hi, Steven!


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