Do you take the job as a ghostwriter for this unknown filmmaker? Two authors had said no. Your name would not be on the cover and the payment would be a mere $5000. Imagine for a moment that George Lucas approached you to write the novel version of Star Wars: A New Hope in the early 70s. His first attempt at a novel, The Tar-Aiym Krang, was bought by Ballantine in 1972 and it incorporated several suggestions from science fiction editor John W.
Sales of short stories to other magazines soon followed. Much to his surprise, the editor published it as a short story. It was during this time that he wrote a lovecraftian letter and sent it into a bi-annual magazine called The Arkham Collector. He worked as a copywriter for two years after graduation for a small advertising and public relations firm in Studio City, California. in Political Science in 1968, and a M.F.A. Alan Dean Foster was born in New York City in the year 1946, but he was raised in California.
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