From: Kathleen Horning <horning>
Date: Thu, 20 Jun 2002 19:09:14 -0500

What a good memory you have. Yes, I became my own literary agent because I could not get one in the 50's. I had stationery printed and I wrote for every genre from true confessions to mystery to slick. All my clients were me. In those days there were many magazines publishing fiction,too. I sold my first story to Ladies Home Journal with the pseudonym Laura Winston. Bruce Gould, the then editor, asked me if I wanted to join the staff when it was discovered I was both agent/writer. He saw me as an enterprising young woman...which I was...but I did not want to move to Philadelphia, where the magazine was published. But long before all that, when I was a kid, I had many pseudonyms. Most of them had the initials ERM since my father had stationery with those initials. I borrowed it a lot. My first pseudonym was Eric Ranthram MacKay.

Please forward. I always want my responses forwarded. I know there's something I'm not doing to share them with everyone. mek
Received on Thu 20 Jun 2002 07:09:14 PM CDT