Copyright 1912 by
The Editor Company.

[The Fiction Factory]

[Contents of Chapters.]

PAGE.
[I.] [Aut Fiction, Aut Nullus][11]
[II.] [As the Twig is Bent][16]
[III.] [Methods that Make or Mar][25]
[IV.] [Getting Hooked up with a big House][31]
[V.] [Nickel Thrills and Dollar Shockers][38]
[VI.] [Making Good by Hard Work][42]
[VII.] [Inspiration Alias Industry][52]
[VIII.] [The Wolf on the Sky Line][56]
[IX.] [Raw Material][63]
[X.] [The Wolf at the Door][68]
[XI.] [When Fiction is Stranger than Truth][76]
[XII.] [Fortune Begins to Smile][80]
[XIII.] [Our Friend the T. W.][88]
[XIV.] [Fresh Fields and Pastures New][94]
[XV.] [From the Factory's Files][104]
[XVI.] [Growing Prosperity][110]
[XVII.] [Ethics of the Nickel Novel][117]
[XVIII.] [Keeping Everlastingly at it][122]
[XIX.] [Love Your Work for the Work's Sake][129]
[XX.] [The Lengthening list of Patrons][133]
[XXI.] [A Writer's Reading][142]
[XXII.] [New Sources of Profit][146]
[XXIII.] [The Injustice of it][158]
[XXIV.] [What Shall We Do with it][163]
[XXV.] [Extracts Grave, Gay, Wise and Otherwise][171]
[XXVI.] [Patrons and Profits for Twenty-Two Years][175]

THE WRITER
TO THE READER

It was in 1893 that John Milton Edwards (who sets his hand to this book of experiences and prefers using the third person to overworking the egotistical pronoun) turned wholly to his pen as a means of livelihood. In this connection, of course, the word "pen" is figurative. What he really turned to was his good friend, the Typewriter.