Jason kindly allowed me carte-blanche to post ones I like without advance permission. Three or four other Flickr members have done it over the years -- it's a lovely "vote of confidence>"
If Lena floats past on her bed, maybe she can give this pretty girl a lift...
Ah, the Shadow knows! I'm a huge fan of that old character. I have a load of old cassettes of the 30s/40s radio show, not to mention reprints of the original pulp magazine. The creator of The Shadow, Walter Gibson, is something of a writing hero of mine. He was able to produce the equivalent of 24 short novels of 75,000 words every year. This sounds daunting enough, but what makes it even more startling is that they are generally solid, enjoyable little thrillers. There's a story that after he had written the first few editions his fingers began to bleed, His doctor told him that he had worn out the skin on the tips of his fingers from hitting the keys of his typewriter so often... Yikes!
That is a strange story about Gibson's typing output...and, equally weird, Gibson saw the playboy "Lamont Cranston" as only a pseudonym of the actual Shadow, Kent Allard, "a former WWI aviator." (The radio show, written mainly by others, started before Gibson was hired to write the books and pulp magazines; there was no Allard on the radio version.) According to Wiki, "Gibson is estimated to have written, at his peak output, 1,680,000 words a year and at least 282 of the 325 Shadow novels."
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Jason kindly allowed me carte-blanche to post ones I like without advance permission. Three or four other Flickr members have done it over the years -- it's a lovely "vote of confidence>"
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But as I love the blue,it's very blue and I like it :)
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Ah, the Shadow knows! I'm a huge fan of that old character. I have a load of old cassettes of the 30s/40s radio show, not to mention reprints of the original pulp magazine. The creator of The Shadow, Walter Gibson, is something of a writing hero of mine. He was able to produce the equivalent of 24 short novels of 75,000 words every year. This sounds daunting enough, but what makes it even more startling is that they are generally solid, enjoyable little thrillers. There's a story that after he had written the first few editions his fingers began to bleed, His doctor told him that he had worn out the skin on the tips of his fingers from hitting the keys of his typewriter so often... Yikes!
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