Böcker utgivna av Norton Creek Press

William Wallace Cook was a famously prolific writer, turning out so much pulp fiction that he was called "the man who deforested Canada."Best remembered today for his plot-generation book, Plotto, Cook also chronicled his first two decades as a high-volume pulp writer, The Fiction Factory. He tells how he got started as a fiction writer and the ups and downs of freelancing at the turn of the last century.In addition to being fascinating reading in its own right, the book shows how much harder writing used to be. Cook was not only an early adopter of the typewriter, gratefully abandoning his fountain pen, but also of the index-card-based filing system, which made his precious collection of background material (newspaper and magazine clippings) far more accessible.There's no better chronicle of an author writing quickly and with increasing ease, year after year.

Lost, Friendless, and Outgunned.Young Beverly di Mendoza knew something was up when her father cut short their Terran layover and changed their route to pass through Barigost, a planet she had never heard of. But she did not expect events to lead to murder and betrayal."One Survivor" is set in a richly textured future, amid the picturesque flotsam of the Terran Empire, now four centuries gone.Robert Plamondon is a writer, farmer, and engineer. He lives in Oregon.