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Redhawk, I contacted a small publisher in Interviewer: [laughter] So you don’t read
Michigan and he wanted to offer me a you own books for pleasure?
partner deal in publishing it; and I said I
R.G. Yoho: Ah. Well, I could, six months
wasn’t interested in that. And he called me
later. But when I see that book, when I send
about six months later and wanted to give
that book off to the publisher, when it goes
me a traditional contract, asked me if I’d
off to Outlaws Publishing, usually by that
published the manuscript and I said no, I
point I ain’t interested in ever seeing that
hadn’t. I took him up on it and that’s kinda
book again. I hate it; by that time I’ve read it
how it got started. But I don’t think it
too many times and it bores the heck out of
would’ve happened had it not been for the
me.
publisher of this other book. I think it did
some things for me, although it didn’t do Interviewer: [laughter] So how did you get
much about getting my name out there or with Outlaws Publishing?
help me in the business, but you know I’ve
had some weird roads as far as my career R.G. Yoho: Well, I saw an ad online for an
interview, I think in The Westerner, and I
up till now.
contacted them thinking it’d be good for a
Interviewer: It sounds like it. How do you little bit of publicity. And that’s when JC
go about the editing process? Do you edit Hulsey called me. And of course, then the
yourself? Do you like to use an editor? How first thing he told me kinda rubbed me the
do you work that? wrong way, but I think he was exactly
correct. The first thing he told was ‘your
R.G. Yoho: Ah, I’m working on getting an
books cost too much, Bob.’ But I was
editor. I contacted a woman who used to
attracted by the fact that he wanted all my
work for the newspaper, locally, and I think
Westerns. He wanted every one of them. He
she’s gonna edit some of my books. I’ve
wanted me to try to bring them all to
done most of it myself and got some other
Outlaws Publishing. And it was kinda
people to help me if I could wrangle them
interesting actually have a publisher come
into it. For the most part, I’ve done most of
after me for a change instead of me having
it myself, but you’re not the best person to
to hunt them down.
edit your own work. I’m darn good at
proofreading somebody else’s material, but Interviewer: He certainly has a habit of
in your own you see what you think is chasing down authors and grabbing them.
there, not really what’s really there, and it He’s done a good job of collecting them, I
doesn’t work real well trying to do it think.
myself. And usually by the time I send a
book off, I’m sick of that book and don’t R.G. Yoho: And I was with somebody else.
care if I ever see it again. Out of loyalty I wanted to stay there, and
had they been selling, I probably would.
