You really seemed to discover your voice and your style there. It was partly economic. And I spoke the whole book. I just went off like a burglar alarm. So then I went home and wrote it.
People hate to hear of an artist having economic problems or doing anything for money.
Like a priest. I knew how to be a good date on a blind date, how to entertain strangers. I developed sociability skills writing for the slicks, because they wouldn't publish it if it wasn't sociable. I knew it was a good story, but you can't count on anything selling. It was just another paperback novel that came out that year.