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99% Invisible
It was a series of books with a black and white cover that was meant to look like the generic grocery products, presented as a satire of publishing, particularly romance and science fiction.
If you could have no frills cornflakes, why couldn't you have a no frills romance?
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It was a series of books with a black and white cover that was meant to look like the generic grocery products, presented as a satire of publishing, particularly romance and science fiction.
If you could have no frills cornflakes, why couldn't you have a no frills romance?
It says, No Frills Book Mystery, and then it says, Complete with Everything. Detective, telephone, mysterious woman, corpses, money, rain. And the science fiction is, Complete with Everything. Aliens, giant ants, space cadets, robots, one plucky girl.
They got this enormous press attention because every newspaper in the country had, in those days, had a book editor or somebody that was supposed to look after stuff. Well, they all thought I was a hoot.