Picking up where I left off yesterday, Ray told me the sad tale of Pug-Wud-Gee Land. Seems this guy sent him this terrible ms. Ray sent back a rejection letter. The guy forged Ray's letterhead, forged his signature and sent out copies of Pug-Wud-Gee Land to publishers all over the US! Ray had to call up editors to apologize! Ray and I continued our correspondence and he offered to be my agent. He sold several nonfiction juvenile books for me. But more than that, Ray became a really dear friend. Now, remember when I said he lived in Milwaukee. He knew about TSR and he knew Jean Blashfield Black, the head of the book department at TSR. So when Jean called to ask him . . . (To be continued.)
Published on January 30, 2014 05:54