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THE THERAPY OF AVRAM BLOK was my first “proper” published novel, and was begun after a long period of attempts to publish short science-fiction type stories in various magazines. (Adventures which later formed the basis of the 1990 novel Your Monkey’s Shmuck.) About four years had passed without publication, with piled up rejection letters often stating: If you write anything commercially publishable please let us know. I became so enraged at this that I decided to write the most commercially unpublishable narrative I could think of, on the theory that this would paradoxically form its attraction to some enterprising publisher. Lo and behold, through the ministrations of my ex-publisher and now heroic agent, Tim O’Keeffe, a berth was found at William Heinemann Ltd. But not for long…
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