Curtis, Richard A
Entry updated 21 June 2023. Tagged: Author, Editor.
(1937- ) US editor, literary agent and author, known mainly in the first capacity for his anthology Future Tense (anth 1968), which is not to be confused with Kendell Foster Crossen's Future Tense (anth 1952). He has also published short work, beginning with "Introduction to 'The Saint'" in Cavalier for 1968, as well as Squirm: Novelization (1976), an sf film novelization (see Blue Sunshine). From 1980 to 1992 he wrote the Agent's Corner column in Locus, which has been adapted into book form as Beyond the Bestseller: A Literary Agent Takes You Inside the Book Business (coll 1989; rev vt Mastering the Business of Writing 1996). [JC]
Richard Alan Curtis
born 23 June 1937
works
- Squirm: Novelization (New York: Ace Books, 1976) [tie: novelizing the film: pb/Drew Struzan]
- A Fool for an Agent: Publishing Satires and Verses (Eugene, Oregon: Writer's Notebook Press, 1992) [coll: chap: hb/]
nonfiction (selected)
- The Genial Idiots: The American Saga as Seen by our Humorists (New York: Crowell-Collier Press, 1968) [nonfiction: hb/]
- Perils of the Peaceful Atom: The Myth of Safe Nuclear Power (Garden City: Doubleday and Company, 1969) with Elizabeth Hogan [nonfiction: hb/]
- The Case for Extinction: An Answer to Conservationists (New York: The Dial Press, 1970) as by Morton Stultifer [nonfiction: hb/]
- How to Prosper in the Coming Apocalypse (New York: St Martin's Press, 1981) [nonfiction: hb/]
- How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business of Getting Your Book Published (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1982) [nonfiction: coll: hb/]
- How to Be Your Own Literary Agent: The Business of Getting Your Book Published (Boston, Massachusetts: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1984) [nonfiction: coll: exp of the above: hb/]
- Beyond the Bestseller: A Literary Agent Takes You Inside the Book Business (New York: New American Library, 1989) [nonfiction: coll: Agent's Corner: hb/]
- Mastering the Business of Writing (New York: Allworth Press, 1996) [nonfiction: coll: rev vt of the above: Agent's Corner: pb/]
- This Business of Publishing: An Insider's View of the Current Trends and Practices (New York: Allworth Press, 1996) [nonfiction: coll: Agent's Corner: pb/]
works as editor
- Future Tense (New York: Dell, 1968) [anth: pb/V Z Hoot]
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