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Publishing in the Olden Days: Postcard From London, 1987

by Patty Dann

Postcard

Today, when I logged on to Amazon.com to look up the statistics on my most recent book, I noticed a new category, "Book or Books You Would Recommend INSTEAD of This Book," and I longed for a more civil time. I recalled an October afternoon twenty years ago, when I received a pale blue airmail envelope from my British publisher, the firm of John Murray, Ltd., at 50 Albemarle Street in London. On a manual typewriter, my editor had written that they were "looking forward vigorously to my arrival."