Second Printing February 1944

Jack Woodford (1894–1971) was an American novelist and non-fiction writer, author of successful pulp novels and non-fiction of the 1930s and 1940s. He wrote unique books on writing and getting published.

Contents:

Introduction 

types of novels 

genius and worse 

why write a novel? 

Just for the hell of it 

technique and other toys 

the fashion novel 

how to begin 

best smellers

seeing is believing 

fly specks 

perfectionism 

to market 

vanity, vanity, all is vanity 

skin and bones prose

theme song 

the geography of parnassus

so you think you’re tough! 

Origin of the novel 

miscarriages and stillbirths 

so long, chums