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I don’t re of Me Tanner, You Jane, and I can’t blame it on hash, neither dyna in an effort to make the book different froet things going In The Scoreless Thai, I’d kicked things off with Tanner locked in a ba execution; Me Tanner, You Jane begins with hiavethat had been stuck inin New Brunswick, New Jersey, I made the acquaintance of a Latvian painter named Valdi Mais (I had recently published Tanner’s Twelve Swingers, which involves the Latvian Army in Exile, and a local review of the book had led hiood, if accented, but hesuffix to a verb form; comparison came out comparisment

I really loved that, and I wanted to have a character make errors of that sort, but I never was able to conjure up another example So one of the chaps involved in Tanner’s premature interht to et about it

But evidently I haven’t

Looking back all these years later, it strikesJane call herself Sheena after the comic book characterfelt that there’s a comic-book aspect to this particular novel (You could perhaps say as much for the whole series, but I think it’s truest for MTYJ) I have a feeling the sa the book as when I was pitching it to poor Alan Rinzler I i hieous

I don’t dislike the book all these years later, not by any means, but by the time I finished it I kneas done – not just with the book itself, but with the series I’e success, or even a rather small success, but all it did was come out and sell a handful of copies and vanish It didn’t even et reprinted in paperback

What it did do, oddly enough, was reet remaindered almost before the ink is dry; unless a book continues to sell at a pretty good pace, a publisher drops it from his list and ships the leftover copies to a cut-price wholesaler, and the next thing you know your novel is on the Bargain Books table at Barnes aed at about half the price it cooverned the rules, a publisher could keep a book in print as a service to readers and booksellers while still writing off the greater portion of costs for tax purposes Some swine took the trouble to close this useful loophole, and that was the end of that

But Me Tanner, You Jane, published in 1970, was still available froht years later I knew this because a copy actually sold, ot a royalty check for forty-nine cents If I’d had any sense – and a few hundred dollars worth of risk capital – I’d have stocked up I had neither, and all I did was tell Otto Penzler, who promptly stocked up Shortly thereafter the book disappeared

And here it is, all these years later, in a handsome paperback edition not that inal Macmillan hardcover

I do hope you enjoyed it