Did you know that Sidney Sheldon had a successful film, Broadway, and TV writing career before he became a novelist at the age of 50? Did you know he won the trifecta of #Academy, #Emmy, and #Tony Awards? Well, I didn't. (https://lnkd.in/gVSNXJK8)
I think, like me, most people who know of Sheldon know him as a #novelist. I would normally assume that a novelist as successful as Sheldon would have been writing novels their whole life. But the thing is, he had been writing his whole life, just not novels.
I know of Sidney Sheldon as a wildly popular author among a class of English-educated Indians of my parents' generation. We had a few of his novels in our home #library when I was a kid, but I never read any (not because it was forbidden but because I was more into 'Children's Knowledge Bank' and inexpensive translated #Soviet books from #Mir, #Raduga, et al.). I did rifle through the pages of every book on our bookshelf. I recall reading passages from Sheldon's novels, including some a kid my age shouldn't have 😁
But what always fascinated me the most was the awesomely grand character of his novel's #titles! My favourites are:
The Other Side of Midnight
Rage of Angels
Master of the Game
If Tomorrow Comes
Windmills of Gods
The Sands of Time
Are You Afraid of the Dark?
If I ever write a novel, I will pray I get Sheldon's sense of titling.
Anyway, that is all prologue. The point of this post is—look at the attached pic. See the format? Two books in one #paperback, each beginning from the opposite end, upside down. I haven't seen this format in a long time. It was somewhat common back then. Is it still around? If not, why not?
PS. No, I'm not reading this book either; just rifling through and reading age-appropriate passages 😄
#shidneysheldon #books #novels #literature #AmericanLiterature #publishing #writing
