EFR/2/1/1/6 - Correspondence from Otis Kline Associates, New York , USA - Feb-Dec 1953

Letters from Oscar J Friend and Irene M Ozment (Vice president of Otis Kline Associates), to EFR. Shasta Publications have bought Jay Score and Company; Lloyd Eshbach is producing an anthology of EFR stories for Fantasy Press; discussions of the possibility of EFR re-writing Sustaine...

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Main Creator: Wilde, Niall(e)
Other Creators: Conklin, Edward, Sloane, William, Eshbach, Lloyd
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Physical Description:35 items; 40pp
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Letters from Oscar J Friend and Irene M Ozment (Vice president of Otis Kline Associates), to EFR. Shasta Publications have bought Jay Score and Company; Lloyd Eshbach is producing an anthology of EFR stories for Fantasy Press; discussions of the possibility of EFR re-writing Sustained Pressure; mention of a paperback reprint deal between Bouregy and Curl and Ace Books, for Sentinels from Space and a new story; sale of American and Spanish Serial Rights for Bitter End; Dark Companion sold to Fantastic; Oscar J Friend clarifies and explains his work as agent for EFR; All Serial Rights to Nothing to Declare? by Niall Wilde sold to Fantastic; Groff Conklin wishes to use Mechanistra or Boomerang, in a new anthology; payment for Dear Devil used in Bill Sloane's anthology, Space, Space, Space and also his use of And Then There Were None; publishers comments on Fly Away Peter, which Oscar J Friend suggests should be rewritten; mention of EFR writing for a series of educational books; includes critical comments by Oscar J Friend on many of the manuscripts mentioned. Also one letter to Friend from Arthur P Lawler of Street & Smith Publications regarding EFR's pseudonym Maurice G. Hugi and payment for the story The Mechanical Mice.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Date:Feb-Dec 1953
Reference Number:EFR/2/1/1/6