Alan Schapiro News Today

Agency. My only rule at five in the morning, i had to start writing, get right into the story before i could put the water on for coffee. Most of the fiction i wrote at daybreak sold the magazine. For 2 cents a word. 310 to yuma in 1953, 4500 words western, sold 490. Two years later, a studio paid 4000 to make a movie starring glenn ford. And i liked it a lot, but walter called the picture three hours and 10 minutes past high noon. [laughter] in 1969, i wrote my first book that wasnt a western c...