Ever since I first wrote about my publishing pitfalls with PublishAmerica, I've received a lot of correspondence from writers asking me if they too should avoid .....
...... genius move was that he made the books look like books that adults read. He bound the books and used the same typeface as books for adult readers. These books would not be long and tedious and chapters would end with a kinda cliff hanger (not unlike each segment of the TV drama Alias does today). With these innovations The Rover Boys was an overwhelming success.
What next' Of course, other series came along like The Bobbsey Twins which appeared in 1904 and Tom Swift in 1910; The Hardy Boys in 1927 and Nancy Drew in 1930. The latter two series survive till this day. Stratemeyer died in 1930. He left his publishing business to his two daughters of which one took up the business and began more series after the model of her father.
One of the little known pseudonyms of the Stratemeyer Syndicate was Chester K. Steele. This pseudonym was used for a series of mystery books aimed at an older audience. The first book was The Mansion of Mystery and was written by Stratemeyer himself while the others in the series were all ghostwritten.
The big question. Do you submit directly to the publishers, or do you find an agent who will do that for you' Based on anecdotal .....
One of these books is The Golf Course Mystery (1919) is among six of these mysteries. This novel in the Public Domain and you can read it at Vintage Literature (http://www.vintageliterature.com).
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Winn Griffin is a publisher of Public Domain works which gives Vintage Literature a new lease on life for a 21st Century audience. You may distribute this article freely on your website, as long as this entire article, including links and this resource box are unchanged. Read Chester K. Steele's The Golf Course Mystery at Vintage Literature (http://www.vintageliterature.com).
