Putting My Best Foot Backwards

by Maynard Good Stoddard


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Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 6/27/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 6x9
Page Count : 148
ISBN : 9780759629837
Format : E-Book
Dimensions : E-Book
Page Count : 148
ISBN : 9780759629820

About the Book

If your taste in literature doesn’t run to how a homeowner lost The Great Termite Race, or how The Door-To-Door Salesman (became) An Endangered Species, or about having A Dog in the Driver’s Seat, or even How to Kill Your Husband, then this book may not be for you.

On the other hand, should your own golf game not be all that hot, you might appreciate The Golf Goof, and Fairway or Foul. And if you are having trouble quenching the smoking habit, A Nonsmoker Has Determined could be right up, or down, your alley. And for you guys who have played the game with wives at the table, It’s Called Poker may bring back memories you’d sooner forget. As for Remember the Alimony, there’s about a 50-50 chance it will hit home.

In fact, this may also apply to the entire book. You pay your money, you takes your chances.


About the Author

Released from a wartime job in Indianapolis, I packed my wife, Lois, and our two little kids into a house trailer (now upgraded to a mobile home) and took off for Bradenton, Florida, to launch my writing career.

I would spend many dreary months tied to the dock, however, before shoving off. So dreary, in fact, that the morning we needed a 22-cent quart of milk for breakfast, we could only raise but 18 cents. That afternoon, in the normal mail of rejections, a strange blue envelope stood out like the proverbial sore thumb. The editor of Extension, a Chicago magazine, regaled me with the news that my Do You Mind If I Breathe had their staff literally rolling on the floor. They would be sending me a check for $150.00 . . . and did I have more.

Yes, I had at least a dozen more. And after selling to True and The American Legion, I thought I had it made. I thought wrong.

I would spend another twenty years (as Director Of Communications for the Realsilk Hosiery Mills) before The Saturday Evening Post asked to reprint one of my free-lance efforts. That beloved magazine has to date printed 154 of my original efforts.

This book covers 24 of them.

I was recently interviewed by a sophomore high school student who asked what advice I would give to would-be writers. I believe I said it all in only these three words: "Don’t give up."