Taught in universities, read by best-selling authors, damned and praised for nearly 50 years. Here is the first paperback edition of the most controversial and famous how-to-write book ever written.
What they say about Jack Woodford:
SIDNEY
ALLINSON (military historian, Canadian film producer, author of The Bantams):
"Jack Woodford was a genius as a teacher of writing... his books should be
required reading in so-called 'creative writing' courses in
college..."
MICHAEL AVALLONE (author of over 200 books): "...Woodford was
the first to say in print a lot of things that needed to be said about those
unsung rascals, the publishers... Woodford was to writing what Winchell was to
Journalism--a Truth-Teller, Sensation-Maker, and Icon
Shatterer..."
HARMON BELLAMY (novelist, Hollywood movie scenarist,
playwright, and long-time friend of Woodford's): "... his most important
contribution to the world of literature was 'Trial and Error: perhaps the most
famous of all books on writing..."
RAY BRADBURY (internationally famous
fantasist, social critic, prose poet, scenarist, playwright, and a major
American writer): "Jack Woodford's 'Trial and Error' was the first book on
writing I ever read, at the age of fifteen. He said all the right things and
said them clearly. I stayed afloat and got my work done because of
him."
PETER DANIELSON (best-selling author of Children of the Lion and
The Shepherd Kings): "...'Trial and Error' is the best book on writing ever
written in any century or any language...because of reading Jack Woodford I
estimate my career skipped ten years of failure... The amazing thing about
Woodford is that 90% of everything he had to say to the beginning writer remains
totally valid 40 years after all Jack Woodford's own markets had died. No
writer's book shelf is complete without the collected non-fiction works of Jack
Woodford..."
NEIL ELLIOTT (author of The Hills of Creation, The Noisy
American; TV writer, actor, and long-time associate of Woodford's): "...When you
knew Jack Woodford you knew what Hitler had going for him--a personality so
strong that it carried everything before it...I've known many of the great and
famous of the world... they all seemed puny compared to Jack
Woodford..."
DR. JERRY POURNELLE (co-author of Lucifer's Hammer, Inferno,
and author of A Step Farther Out and other best-sellers): "I strongly suspect
that I would not have attempted to write for money if I had not read Jack
Woodford's books..."
RICHARD S. PRATHER (creator of Shell Scott and
author of over 40 novels): "...Nothing will diminish the towering stature of
Jack Woodford's work, particularly that Magnum Opus: 'Writing and Selling (Trial
and Error)'...Jack Woodford is great!"
A.E. VAN VOGT (one of science
fiction's great writers of all time; author of such classics as Slan, the World
of Null-A, The Voyage of the Space Beagle, the sensational political novel The
Violent Man, and the greatest book on success ever written The Money
Personality): "I used to read Jack Woodford avidly..."
WILLIAM WALL
(author of 140 novels): "Woodford was one hell of a guy. A guy like Jack
Woodford cannot be put down... if you have not read his books on writing you
probably are not a writer."
GEORGE WARREN (author of Destiny's Children,
Run for Blood, and more than 25 other novels): "...there never was a
writer-on-writing even remotely like Jack Woodford, and, for the commercial
writer, like myself, he is irreplaceable..."
Cat. No.: TE
Price: $10.95
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