I still remember the thrill (along with a little trepidation) I felt when I opened my first letter from McFarland and found a contract enclosed for my signature. (Yes, it was actual snail mail back then).
As a reader and librarian, I’d long admired the excellent books on performing arts published by McFarland. To become one of their authors was a dream come true. It was a joy to write the book, which entailed interviewing two wonderful ladies no longer with us, Gale Storm and Betty White, as well as the likes of TV notables Robert Fuller (about working with Spring Byington) and Sherwood Schwartz (about writing for Joan Davis).
And what other publisher would not only still keep this book in print 17 years later, but have given me the opportunity to write ten more? I am one grateful author.
