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Damn Thing, v. 1, issue 5, May 1941
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THE DAMN THING PAGE NINE ________________________________________ DAMON KNIGHT, PROFESSIONAL Arthur Louis Joquel & Lothar Penguin So, mr. damon knight! You are starting to pay for stories you print in snide Well! Well! This is most amazing news. I presume it is calculated to make you the hero of countless struggling fan writers. This magnimonious offer will make you the outstanding fan editor of the content, and snide the favourite magasine! What's the matter? Can't you get good enough stories any other way? Or are you going to show up the other fan editors as cheapskates? The Damn Thing has a better idea. We humbly suggest to snide and other fan fiction mags that they charge the authors 1/25 cent a word to get their tripe published, and with some of the fan authors the rates ought to be five cents a word. Take Houten for instance. He would be a five cent a word man. It would cost him dollars and dollars to get his ego-manical VAN HOUTEN SAYS published. In fact, it probably wouldn't be published which would be a good thing. Or take Ackerman,. Charge him a dime a word. That would probably eliminate "simplify splng by revs, by 4e" from the fan press. Tucker would be one of the few which could be allowed in the mag gratis. Him and Hoy Ping Pong. However, back to damon knight. Perhaps you have suddenly decided you are too good to be a fan any longer. Maybe you are going to turn professional. Then snide could be rated as the poorest of the professional magasines, assuming its place between Superman and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Anyway, some of us think your idea a very foolish one, and when you get that 100,000 word novel in the mail, don't say we didn't warn you! We will be watching your nobel experiment with great interest. ............................................................................... BRADBURY HITS THE PROS! UNCLE WOLLHEIM Ray is in a delerium of joy. He has sold a story! After years and years he has hit the pros. Well, Ray, accept our congratulations. Not because you've sold a story, which is no singular triumph, but because you've tried damned hard. We have seen and heard of you talking to Heinlein, Williamson, Kuttner, and lately Hasse. We know you've studied like hell and turned out a thousand words a night for the past two years, and we know you've had piles and piles of rejection slips from Campbell down to Margulise. It makes us sick to listen to some "writers" who will automatically hit the slicks when they "get around to knocking out a masterpiece." We know that you've sold your story the hard way, and we want to see you sell a hell of a lot more. So, when your story comes out in Wollheim's mag, we're gonna be smiling from ear to ear along side of you. But, Donald A., you better pay Bradbury on publication!
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THE DAMN THING PAGE NINE ________________________________________ DAMON KNIGHT, PROFESSIONAL Arthur Louis Joquel & Lothar Penguin So, mr. damon knight! You are starting to pay for stories you print in snide Well! Well! This is most amazing news. I presume it is calculated to make you the hero of countless struggling fan writers. This magnimonious offer will make you the outstanding fan editor of the content, and snide the favourite magasine! What's the matter? Can't you get good enough stories any other way? Or are you going to show up the other fan editors as cheapskates? The Damn Thing has a better idea. We humbly suggest to snide and other fan fiction mags that they charge the authors 1/25 cent a word to get their tripe published, and with some of the fan authors the rates ought to be five cents a word. Take Houten for instance. He would be a five cent a word man. It would cost him dollars and dollars to get his ego-manical VAN HOUTEN SAYS published. In fact, it probably wouldn't be published which would be a good thing. Or take Ackerman,. Charge him a dime a word. That would probably eliminate "simplify splng by revs, by 4e" from the fan press. Tucker would be one of the few which could be allowed in the mag gratis. Him and Hoy Ping Pong. However, back to damon knight. Perhaps you have suddenly decided you are too good to be a fan any longer. Maybe you are going to turn professional. Then snide could be rated as the poorest of the professional magasines, assuming its place between Superman and Thrilling Wonder Stories. Anyway, some of us think your idea a very foolish one, and when you get that 100,000 word novel in the mail, don't say we didn't warn you! We will be watching your nobel experiment with great interest. ............................................................................... BRADBURY HITS THE PROS! UNCLE WOLLHEIM Ray is in a delerium of joy. He has sold a story! After years and years he has hit the pros. Well, Ray, accept our congratulations. Not because you've sold a story, which is no singular triumph, but because you've tried damned hard. We have seen and heard of you talking to Heinlein, Williamson, Kuttner, and lately Hasse. We know you've studied like hell and turned out a thousand words a night for the past two years, and we know you've had piles and piles of rejection slips from Campbell down to Margulise. It makes us sick to listen to some "writers" who will automatically hit the slicks when they "get around to knocking out a masterpiece." We know that you've sold your story the hard way, and we want to see you sell a hell of a lot more. So, when your story comes out in Wollheim's mag, we're gonna be smiling from ear to ear along side of you. But, Donald A., you better pay Bradbury on publication!
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