How to write Little Blue Books

How it begins

Telling would-be contributors to the five-cent pocket series How to Write Little Blue Books, is, by rights, the editor’s—E. Haldeman-Julius’s—job. For he is the man who ultimately accepts the manuscript, if it is acceptable, and he signs the check which each author awaits with eager anticipation. But he says that going into the details of how manuscripts should be written for this ever growing series does not appeal to him. So far he has preferred to find and buy the product of those writers who are able, without more than a preliminary word or two, to turn out exactly what he wants.