The Daily Cross Hatch has the first part of an interview up with editor Paul Karasik about his Fletcher Hanks book and how it came to be:
Is there an existing fanbase? Are people there people out there actively collecting Hanks’s stuff?
No. as a matter of fact, most of the collectors that I was in contact with to get copies of these different stories had never heard of Fletcher Hanks. I met some very interested characters—“interesting” might be a euphemism for weird. It often is. I went to one fellow’s house who could not stand the work, so I had to spend the day traveling to get to his house, and brought my own scanner and laptop.
September 18th, 2007 at 12:03 pm
For those who have had a hard time finding this book ’cause it sold out so quickly, the 2nd edition has arrived and should be in bookstores soon.
For those who STILL don’t know who Fletcher Hanks is and why the first edition sold out so quickly, may I suggest that you slide over to the BONUS page of the website to read a Fantomah story that does NOT appear in the book:
http://www.fletcherhanks.com