girls; they were both such good-looking, virile types. These are the people the writer of offbeat fiction is trying to reach. Most of them won't buy a scientific treatise. Many never buy a hardcover novel. But they will

spend 35 cents for a paperback book with a lurid cover that they can read on the bus.

So what's happening in the book world in relation to the group we represent here? As an author I take for granted that my concern and that of my colleagues and compotitorc is to tell the truth about some phase of living. As a human being with more than 40 years of experience and Gome definite ideas about life and people, I believe that human relationships are the most important thing in the world.

(Earning a living comes in thero someplace, too.)

It seems to me that there are five groups that haven't been fairly or adequately represented in current fiotion that demand insistently to be re-evaluated and written about as they are, not as society thinks they ought to be. Each group is a minority, but takon together they probably

I want people to like me.

CARTOON BY DOMINO