Mike, as such a prolific writer/editor, how do you keep track of what you've written over the years and how much original material do you have? You've said elsewhere that you used to give stuff away all the time, including manuscripts, plus there are collections like the one at Texas A & M (that makes fascinating reading in itself), so do you have a copy of everything you've written? I wondered because you said in the restored Stormbringer that you had to borrow the original Science Fantasy magazines off Dave Britton to restore the book, so you couldn't have had the originals for that?
Similarly, a story like The Frozen Cardinal, dating originally from the 60s(?) didn't see publication until the 1980s. And The Golden Barge, which was originally written in the late 50s wasn't published until twenty years later. So did you have the originals available or did you have to obtain them from somewhere?
Robert Silverberg has said he was very meticulous about all the stuff he wrote, keeping a record of story length, where he sold it to and so on. Do (or did) you do any of that?
Similarly, a story like The Frozen Cardinal, dating originally from the 60s(?) didn't see publication until the 1980s. And The Golden Barge, which was originally written in the late 50s wasn't published until twenty years later. So did you have the originals available or did you have to obtain them from somewhere?
Robert Silverberg has said he was very meticulous about all the stuff he wrote, keeping a record of story length, where he sold it to and so on. Do (or did) you do any of that?
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