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The Lure of the Pen

A BOOK FOR WOULD-BE AUTHORS

By

FLORA KLICKMANN

Editor of
"The Girl's Own Paper and Woman's Magazine"

WHO HAS WRITTEN "THE FLOWER-PATCH AMONG THE HILLS,"
"BETWEEN THE LARCHWOODS AND THE WEIR,"
AND OTHER WORKS

G. P. Putnam's Sons
New York and London
1920

Copyright, 1920, by
G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS

DEDICATED TO
MR. JAMES BOWDEN
WHO HAS FEW EQUALS, EITHER
AS A PUBLISHER, OR AS A FRIEND

PREFACE TO THE AMERICAN EDITION

In sending out this new book to the Americanpublic, I feel I am addressing a sympatheticaudience, since other volumes that have precededit have been most cordially received, and haveadded considerably to my long list of friends onthe Western side of the Atlantic.

At first glance it may seem as though the differencebetween the writings of American andBritish authors is too marked to allow of a bookon Authorship proving useful to both countries—butin reality the difference is only superficial,and is largely confined to methods of newspaperjournalism, or connected with mannerisms andtopical qualities.

Fundamentally, both nations work on the samelines and acknowledge the same governing lawsin Literature. American authors, no less thanBritish, derive their inspirations from Europeanclassics.

And magazine editors and publishers in bothcountries are only too grateful for good work fromeither side.

No one can teach authors how or what towrite; but sometimes it is possible to help thebeginners to an understanding of what it is betternot to write. For the rest I hope the book explainsitself.

Flora Klickmann

Fleet Street, London.

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