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is sold long in advance of the publication date. Yes, there are more book clubs now than there were then, but I know he jockeyed for the Book-of-the-Month Club. He tried awfully hard to sell it to them, because of course that means 125,000 copies just like that, you know. It's a great boon to the publisher. They tried to, I mean they gave him all the leeway they could, all the push they could.

They sold the excerpts to Collier's, and they sold a piece to Reader's Digest. I got nothing out of that. That's their business. You sell your manuscript, you see, to the publisher, and you get a royalty. It's like rent.

Are you still getting royalties, in 1955?

Yes. I got a royalty in March. The March one, however-- I get them twice a year. Also I get foreign royalties, and I got a sizeable German royalty this year. I forget what the March one was. It wasn't bad--$700. Not bad for a book that has been off the bookstalls for a long time. No, it isn't out of print, but I mean it's not been re-issued. I don't know, they've sold the plates to the Doubleday Company, and someday I expect it will be published in the Pocketbook edition. But that's their business, when they do it. I'll get a small reward from that, you know.