WINSTON (cont.):  “. . .  So, the people who are really making the top money are men, ‘Jennifer Wilde’, the author of ‘Sweet Savage Love’, is really a guy named ‘Elmer Huff’, who lives out in the boondocks somewhere and writes steamy romance novels . . .”

AUDIENCE MEMBER#4:  “The problems with bookstores is that they keep putting books in the wrong places.  To give you an example:  A recent paperback, ‘The Talent’ by Josephine Yarborough, has a very flowery cover, so it’s over in the Romance section, when it should be over in Fantasy.  And what do you think will happen when somebody picks that one up?”

WINSTON:  “They’ll be slightly surprised.  It has happened to a couple of fantasy books I know of.  They wound up in the Gothics section because they had the same type of cover:  the woman running down the hill, with the big castle in the background with the light on in one window.”

AUDIENCE MEMBER#3:  “That’s like Marion Zimmer Bradley’s new novel, ‘The Catch Trap,’ which is over in the Science Fiction section, but it’s a romance about circus flyers.  And anybody who picks that up will think they’re getting a new Darkover novel because the cover says ‘by the author of Darkover’ . . .”

WINSTON:  “No, no.  The Darkover novels all say ‘A Darkover Novel.’  They may think they’re getting a new science fiction story, but they won’t assume it’s a Darkover book because all the Darkover books now say ‘A Darkover novel’ on the covers.

AUDIENCE MEMBER#2:  “They won’t assume that it’s science fiction . . . they’ll assume that it’s ‘sci-fi’ . . .”

WINSTON:  “Blecch . . .”

PAT:  “Oh, please!”

WINSTON:  “Yes, as Harlan Ellison says, ‘That’s pronounced ‘skiffy’ . . . If you like peanuts, you’ll love ‘skiffy’!’”  (Laughter)

(Just about then, Roberta Rogow made her appearance, signifying that time was up for this panel.)