Bill Shakespeare once wrote ...

When to the sessions of sweet silent thought
I summon up remembrance of things past,

I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought, 
And with old woes' new wail my dear times waste:
Then can I drown an eye, unused to flow, 
For precious friends hid in death's dateless night,
And weep afresh love's long since cancelled woe,
And moan the expense of many a vanished sight:
Then can I grieve at grievances forgone,
And heavily from woe to woe tell o'er
The sad account of a fore-bemoaned moan,
Which I pay as if not paid before.
But if the while I think on thee, dear friend,
All losses are restored and sorrows end.

Sonnet 30, William Shakespeare

(painting by Gustave Courbet)

The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Carter Brown Collectors' Series Volume 1 Number 15

Check out an even better collection of book covers for Carter Brown's novels.

The Nick Carter & Carter Brown Blog: Carter Brown Collectors' Series Volume 1 Number 15

Carter Brown Covers

Hot covers helped drive 70,000,000 book sales

When I was barely a teenager I found the Carter Brown books in drug stores all over my town. The covers were perfect fantasy fodder for horny adolescent kids who had no idea what sex was about.

And then the mysteries were fast paced, if somewhat conventional -- but good enough for kids and old men who were to discriminating.

But the covers ...

One of the early ones, available only in Australia and England

The amazing prolific horny Robert McGinnis covers drove American males wild!

Another Aussie cover, but this may be one of the very first! So amateurish! Why did the artist make this woman CROSS-EYED?

By the 1980s, when Carter Brown was beginning to wear thin and run out of steam, the covers went for  big-boobed photographs.

This photo treatment was also used in the 1970s for Mickey Spillane reprints.

My copy of the Carter Brown autobiography, Ready When You Are C.B.!, is now up for sale. It was hard to find when I bought it. A fast fun read. Carter Brown was the pen name for Alan Geoffrey Yates (1 August 1923 - 5 May 1985. A Brit who moved to Australia after WWII.

Want to buy it?

You'll find it on eBay, while it lasts. 

How to end a letter (or email)

"If doubtful whether to end with ‘yours faithfully’, or ‘yours truly’, or ‘yours most truly’, &c. (there are at least a dozen varieties, before you reach ‘yours affectionately’), refer to your correspondent’s last letter, and make your winding-up at least as friendly as his; in fact, even if a shade more friendly, it will do no harm!"

This charming bit advice was written by Lewis Carroll, author of the beloved Alice books...

Sincerely,
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