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Conventions. Published in the United States by Ballantine Books, a division
of Random House, Inc., New York, and simultaneously in Canada by
Random House of Canada Limited, Toronto.
Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint
the following material: Davis Publications, Inc.: Excerpts from ten letters
written by John W. Campbell as editor of Astounding Science Fiction.
Copyright ┬о 1989 by Davis Publications, Inc.
Putnam Publishing Group: Excerpt from the original manuscript of Podkayne
of Mars by Robert A. Heinlein. Copyright ┬о 1963 by Robert A. Heinlein.
Reprinted by permission of the Putnam Publishing Group.
Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 89-6859

ISBN 0-345-36941-6
Manufactured in the United States of America
First Hardcover Edition: January 1990
First Mass Market Edition: December 1990
For HeinleinтАЩs Children

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FOREWORD
This book does not contain the polished prose one normally associates with
the Heinlein stories and articles of later years. It has been taken from the
day-to-day correspondence between the author and his agent, and from
letters from several others, many of which have been excerpted. s
Such cutting eliminates a great deal of tedious back-and-forth
correspondence concerning details of contracts, discussions about royalty
rates, and other items which would hold up the flow of information about the
writing business (and other things). This book has been abstracted from
enormous files, which run millions of words long, much of it boring to those
not concerned with the daily business of writing and selling.
Many people have asked me to consider writing RobertтАЩs biography, or a joint
oneтАФhis and mineтАФbut I am not ready to do that yet. Perhaps, one day.
Meanwhile, this correspondence covers mostly the years from the time when
Robert first began writing until the period 1969-1970, at which time he found
that his writing time was effectively cut down to zero by the continuing details
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of his business and subsequently, grave illness . . . Over the years, I had
taken over record keeping, information on sales, taxes, and some of the
correspondence. In 1970, Robert was very sick for the entire year, and it was
then essential that I keep the business running. It was fortunate that I had
begun doing so the previous year.
In order to follow the various subjects, I have excerpted these letters to put
together as many as possible of the remarks and ideas on those subjects.
Each letter did have a number of topics in it, these have been separated
where possible. Some of the topics are: juveniles, adult novels, publishers,
travel, fan mail, time wasters, RobertтАЩs writing methods, and so forth.
Some names have been left out for legal reasons.
There are places where there are only notes on telephone conversations. It