UPDATE on my book on Del Rey Books
Well, I don't know how you write your books, but when I write books apparently, I seem to go more than a little overboard. So, as many of you probably realize, I've been researching Judy-Lynn and Lester del Rey , the founders of Del Rey Books and the modern fantasy genre, and it's been several years in the works. This monography is one-half literary biography(s), one-half institutional history, and another one-half argument about how our interpretations of literary texts is based on institutional factors -- i.e., the publishing industry -- that most critics don't know anything about. Working title is Dark Lords of Fantasy: Del Rey Books and the Advent of a Fantasy Empire . Some of my blog entries for this include: Genre Fantasy Bestsellers through 1990 The Gender of Genre Fantasy during the Del Rey Era Defending Del Rey Books: The Misunderstood Hero How to Market a Genre that Doesn't Exist : Simak's THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE TALISMAN (1978) Three Fantasy Novels fro...