The Fiction Factory By John Milton Edwards ¶ Being the Experience of a Writer who, for Twenty-two Years, has kept a Story-mill Grinding Successfully.... The Editor Company RIDGEWOOD, NEW JERSEY COPYRIGHT 1912 BY THE EDITOR COMPANY. THE FICTION FACTORY Contents of Chapters. PAGE. I. AUT FICTION, AUT NULLUS 11 II. AS THE TWIG IS BENT 16 III. METHODS THAT MAKE OR MAR 25 IV. GETTING HOOKED UP WITH A BIG HOUSE 31 V. NICKEL THRILLS AND DOLLAR SHOCKERS 38 VI. MAKING GOOD BY HARD WORK 42 VII. INSPIRATION ALIAS INDUSTRY 52 VIII. THE WOLF ON THE SKY LINE 56 IX. RAW MATERIAL 63 X. THE WOLF AT THE DOOR 68 XI. WHEN FICTION IS STRANGER THAN TRUTH 76 XII. FORTUNE BEGINS TO SMILE 80 XIII. OUR FRIEND THE T. W. 88 XIV. FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW 94 XV. FROM THE FACTORY'S FILES 104 XVI. GROWING PROSPERITY 110 XVII. ETHICS OF THE NICKEL NOVEL 117 XVIII. KEEPING EVERLASTINGLY AT IT 122 XIX. LOVE YOUR WORK FOR THE WORK'S SAKE 129 XX. THE LENGTHENING LIST OF PATRONS 133 XXI. A WRITER'S READING 142 XXII. NEW SOURCES OF PROFIT 146 XXIII. THE INJUSTICE OF IT 158 XXIV. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH IT 163 XXV. EXTRACTS GRAVE, GAY, WISE AND OTHERWISE 171 XXVI. PATRONS AND PROFITS FOR TWENTY-TWO YEARS 175 THE WRITER TO THE READER It was in 1893 that John Milton Edwards (who sets his hand to this book of experiences and prefers using the third person to overworking the egotistical pronoun) turned wholly to his pen as a means of livelihood. In this connection, of course, the word "pen" is figurative. What he really turned to was his good friend, the Typewriter.