![]() It requires as hard an apprenticeship as any other profession.” And as a final encouragement, he adds, “Magazines don’t have automatic remailing or story-writing machines. He writes, “Don’t kid yourself that writing is a substitute for work. One day, after being laid off from a position as a busboy, he checked the mail and found that he had sold his first story. But Gold, an author himself, writes, “Do you think anybody has to tell me how that feels?” He was looking for jobs by day and writing by night in the early 1930s when jobs were scarce, and his “manuscripts seemed to be opened by a machine that slipped them unread, along with a rejection slip, into the return envelope.”Īs an author myself, I couldn’t help but laugh how often it feels that way when submitting stories and getting a form reply (by email in more recent years). ![]() Several authors had shared with Gold how it felt to sell a story to Galaxy. The July, 1954 issue of Galaxy Science Fiction (cover art by Mel Hunter) opens with a note from H. ![]()
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