All good stories begin with fascinating characters, and this novel is replete with them. We have Gwen, nineteen, five feet two inches, voluptuous and gorgeous. Gwen is a budding journalist who will do anything to get a story — and the story she gets leads her far deeper into an awareness of herself and sexual experience than she ever planned to go. We have Dan, big and brawny, a young cop, who discovers in himself a love of Gwen so overpowering that it leads him to heights of heroism and t...

Hilton Williams has been living the good life pumping out "lust pills" from his office. A one-man shop, he watched as the dough piled in, and now he's ready to hire someone else to help take over editing duties. Even in the '60s, women were dying to get into any publishing in NY. So, there will have to be plenty of auditions. One of the rarest Savages.

Determined to Succeed She was greedy for money and men and power. She didn't care what the film makers asked of her, or how far down the road to total degradation she had to go. She was going to be big, very big--and then the creeps who stepped on her when she was small would have to pay. Oh, they'd pay a terrible price.

It is with immense pride that we, The Publishers, introduce The Girlfriend's Boyfriend, by Nona Carlson. It has been a long time since one woman's climb to position and the exorbitant price she paid for success have been portrayed so honestly, so fearlessly, and with such deep penetrating wisdom. This is not the first time that the theme of ambition has been used as the basis of a novel. There have been many books based on this topic in the past. Yet, we feel that the pages presented herei...

One of the better-written accounts of Hollywood, and in particular the seamier aspects of the B-movie industry, where desperation leads to sexual adventure.

Alma Werdon's story places the powerful bank vice-president Milton King under microscopic examination as he plays puppet master and moves his subordinates about the carpeted and chromed stage of his establishment. The strings he pulls affect the lives of half a dozen people. They include two of his employees whose future careers in the banking circles depend upon his personal acceptance or rejection. Just as cattle, oxen, and other beasts of burden were used in early times for bartering an...

What happens when a couple of really hip, really good-looking young college girls are let loose in the big city of a couple of weeks? Where do they go to find their men? Where do they go with their men? Joan Ellis gives us a story about young girls, young girls you might recognize as not very different from the young girls down the block, or in the house next door.

“In most respects, the bored character resembles those in chronic, neurotic depressed states. There is a lack of appetite for life, a lack of any deep interest in anything or anybody, a feeling of powerlessness and resignation; personal relations—including erotic and sexual ones—are thin and flat, and there is little joy or contentment. Yet, in contrast to the depressed, chronically bored persons do not tend to torture themselves by feelings of guilt or sin, they are not centered around th...

The Very Private Secretary is a novel--and, we feel, an important one--about the advertising business and the living, breathing people who work in it. Its protagonist is Reid Hartley, who enjoys an enviable reputation in the profession but lately has been in a severe slump. Somehow, the old glibness which enabled him to devise highly successful ad campaigns in the past has deserted him... and, perhaps, he has begun to question some of his own basic assumptions.

The Wicked and the Whipped by Amy Gray is a novel about crime—many kinds of crime. You will meet many characters in this richly complex story, and you may begin to wonder before you have finished it is any of these people completely innocent. In the beginning, it's true, Lucille Bryson and her husband, the Reverend Doctor Paul Bryson, seem to be about as free from the taint of sin as any human beings living in today's guilt-riddled world can possibly be. In fact, they seem almost too good ...

Nancy came from a poor family. She had to support herself and pay her college tuition. It's hard for a girl to make ends meet unless she finds a way to supplement her income. Nancy did. And in they came.

About:As the curtain is raised on this drama, the foibles of the characters come into focus—the small town hard-working accountant who is trying to save his money in order to start his own business, the little rich girl whose only talent is identifiable by a dollar sign, the political performer fighting for power with his only negotiable asset, the disillusioned Vietnam veteran, and the dedicated thespian. In this richly tapestried setting filled with contemporary theatrical fledglings, Th...