From the Introduction: As the man introducing me at the Community College goes on about my loftier achievements and awards, the audience (kids from families straining so they can get a higher
education) openly yawns. Scrapping my prepared remarks, I tell them 90 percent of my career has been failure.����e been dead broke six times and if I don�� sell something soon it��l be
seven.��I have their attention.��n short, I�� a working writer with a family to support who, to make a buck, has written for such TV series as The Rifleman, Have Gun will Travel, Wanted Dead or
Alive.Having seen these shows via reruns, they react.Tearing up my speech to applause, I invite questions about any aspect of my life that interests them.Silence.Then a tentative hand: ��hat
would you have become if you weren�� a writer?���� professional gambler.��That opens the floodgates.These kids aren�� interested in what my life is like since I attained a measure of success.
What they want to know is how I got there, which might shed light on what they��l have to go through in whatever field they choose.Writing for Love and/or Money recounts some of the things I
shared with them and many more, which there wasn�� time for.
