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The Alchemist, v. 1, issue 5, February 1941
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18 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- ization manifestations of a substance which has since been named "ectoplasm", but which at that time, by one German writer was called "teleplasm". I didn't like his word for it, and so coined my own. I called it "psychoplasm". The story was sold to Weird Tales in 1922, and published as a two-parter beginning in the first issue of that magazine in 1923. My coined word has since been used by many writers, and has found its way into the latest dictionairies, though not with precisely the definition which originally caused me to coin it. Other stories followed, based on psychology, or on other sciences, chiefly astronomy and physics, sometimes in combination with psychology. THE PLANET OF PERIL, which combined all three, after being serialized in Argosy was the first to achieve book publication. I also wrote some poetry and articles, and most other types of fiction, and in addition to selling almost all types of stories to a wide variety of U.S. Publications, and having some of them syndicated in more than four hundred newspapers and a novel made into a motion picture by Universal, I sold many of them in Canada, England, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Holland, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and France. In 1923, I helped another writer, an old timer who had quit for eight years and with whom I had previously collaborated on songs and movie scenarios, and one musical comedy, to come back. He quickly told others of the help I had given him, and they told others, so presently, I had an agency, international in its scope. Soon I was selling the work of other writers as well as my own, in foreign countries as well as the U.S. Presently, also, I was representing foreign publishers, authors and syndicates in foreign countries. The was has played havoc with much of this international business, but the domestic business, par-
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18 ----- ALCHEMIST ----- ization manifestations of a substance which has since been named "ectoplasm", but which at that time, by one German writer was called "teleplasm". I didn't like his word for it, and so coined my own. I called it "psychoplasm". The story was sold to Weird Tales in 1922, and published as a two-parter beginning in the first issue of that magazine in 1923. My coined word has since been used by many writers, and has found its way into the latest dictionairies, though not with precisely the definition which originally caused me to coin it. Other stories followed, based on psychology, or on other sciences, chiefly astronomy and physics, sometimes in combination with psychology. THE PLANET OF PERIL, which combined all three, after being serialized in Argosy was the first to achieve book publication. I also wrote some poetry and articles, and most other types of fiction, and in addition to selling almost all types of stories to a wide variety of U.S. Publications, and having some of them syndicated in more than four hundred newspapers and a novel made into a motion picture by Universal, I sold many of them in Canada, England, Australia, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Holland, Poland, Austria, Czechoslovakia and France. In 1923, I helped another writer, an old timer who had quit for eight years and with whom I had previously collaborated on songs and movie scenarios, and one musical comedy, to come back. He quickly told others of the help I had given him, and they told others, so presently, I had an agency, international in its scope. Soon I was selling the work of other writers as well as my own, in foreign countries as well as the U.S. Presently, also, I was representing foreign publishers, authors and syndicates in foreign countries. The was has played havoc with much of this international business, but the domestic business, par-
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