Playboy After Hours
April, 1967
In recent years, the demand for salable book manuscripts has far outstripped the supply, and publishers' nervousness has been eloquently expressed in the colossal advances they're now paying for unwritten material. Norman Mailer, for instance, received $225,000 against two unwritten books; James Jones was advanced $900,000 for three; and Harold Robbins, after receiving $1,000,000 for The Adventurers before he'd even thought up the title, was guaranteed another $6,000,000 against future opuses.Bu...
