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HUNTING LAKE

by Mike Resnick

In my life, I have written a grand total of three fan letters

to writers. One of the recipients, Barry Malzberg, became my

closest friend and occasional collaborator. Another, humorist Ross

Spencer, also became a good friend. The third was African writer

Alexander Lake, who died on Christmas Day, 1961, a month before I

wrote to him. I've always regretted not meetiing Lake, who has

been virtually forgotten by the American reading public, despite a

number of bestsellers.

I recently moved THE RESNICK LIBRARY OF AFRICAN ADVENTURE

from St. Martin's Press over to Alexander Books, an offshoot of

WorldComm Press. The primary reason was to bring Lake back into

print.

Sounds simple, right? I mean, hell, all editors do is sit on

their judgment all day and see what comes in the mail.

Well, sometimes it's not _quite_ that easy. Take Lake, for

example.

Hell, take the whole damned chronology:

1954: I buy the paperback edition of KILLERS IN AFRICA at age

12, take it to summer camp with me, read it in its entirety once a

week for two months. From that day to this, I am fascinated by all

things African, I take 5 safaris, I write 13 books and 18 short

stories set in Africa, and I never forget that it is Alexander

Lake who awakened this passion in me.

1988: St. Martin's Press buys Tor Books. St. Martin's also

publishes Peter Capstick's LIBRARY OF AFRICAN HUNTING, a series of

classic reprints.

1989: IVORY becomes a Nebula and Clarke nominee for Tor right

after SANTIAGO hits #3 on the bestseller list, and the nice people

at Tor look about for ways to keep me happily in their stable. I

tell them that if Capstick ever dies or gives up editing the

Library, I want to take it over.

1991: St. Martin's informs me that Capstick has moved to a

different publisher, and I can edit the Library. I tell them that

the first two authors I want to bring back -- they've each written

two books -- are Alexander Lake and John Boyes, a scalawag who was

one of the Kenya pioneers and at one time was the white king of

the Kikuyu. They reply that they'll reprint the Boyes books, which

were written in 1910 and 1928 and are in the public domain, but

with so many classics available for free they won't spend a penny

to purchase the Lakes, which we all assume are still under

beating down my door to edit books about killing animals in this

Politically Correct year of 1991 -- and I select three books, by

Boyes, F. C. Selous, and Arthur Neumann, for publication, writing

new introductions for each.

1992: WorldComm Press, which specializes in small editions of

trade paperbacks, is feeling expansive and approaches me about

writing a mystery novel and editing a line of mass market science

fiction. I agree, and suggest that I'd also like to bring the

reprint series over from St. Martin's Press, which isn't making

any money on them anyway and would probably be happy to let them

go, so that we can at least make an attempt to get Lake's books

back into print. The publisher, Ralph Roberts, has never heard of

Alexander Lake. I loan him copies of KILLERS IN AFRICA and

HUNTER'S CHOICE; he calls back two nights later -- he loves them,

and he'll start up the African reprint line as soon as I'm ready.

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