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Pulpmeister · 09-20-2020, 10:53 PM

Thanks, Matthias

The online newspapers in Australia bristle with short stories and serial novels, and I've rescued quite a lot, specially some still in copyright.

I have around 100 short short crime stories by Australian Vince Kelly, a NSW police and political newspaper reporter, but he left no obvious heirs and I don't know how to find the copyright owner. So they sit on my hard drive until I do.

I did find the owner of the copyright of a bunch of short stories by Australian writer R Carson Gold, and sent them on. Maybe one day they'll appear in properly authorised print.

As to all the others, well, I am in the rescue business I suppose, so when I find these PD stories in newspapers I just assemble them into a book-length epub and put them up here.

There's many thousands more, and an astounding number of them are anonymous, so of course I can't post them here; or are by authors who are (a) unknown to Google, or (b) pseudonymous and unknown to Google, with the same result. The Braidwood NSW newspaper for many years ran novelettes as short two or three part serials, and every one is anonymous.

I now have 6 true-crime stories by Ladbroke Black, by the way, which together make up only 17,000 words. The nucleus of Past Masters 11 perhaps. Or Roy Glashan's Library, or both.

09-20-2020, 10:53 PM	#3
Pulpmeister Wizard Posts: 2,825 Karma: 29145056 Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: Perth Western Australia Device: kindle	Thanks, Matthias The online newspapers in Australia bristle with short stories and serial novels, and I've rescued quite a lot, specially some still in copyright. I have around 100 short short crime stories by Australian Vince Kelly, a NSW police and political newspaper reporter, but he left no obvious heirs and I don't know how to find the copyright owner. So they sit on my hard drive until I do. I did find the owner of the copyright of a bunch of short stories by Australian writer R Carson Gold, and sent them on. Maybe one day they'll appear in properly authorised print. As to all the others, well, I am in the rescue business I suppose, so when I find these PD stories in newspapers I just assemble them into a book-length epub and put them up here. There's many thousands more, and an astounding number of them are anonymous, so of course I can't post them here; or are by authors who are (a) unknown to Google, or (b) pseudonymous and unknown to Google, with the same result. The Braidwood NSW newspaper for many years ran novelettes as short two or three part serials, and every one is anonymous. I now have 6 true-crime stories by Ladbroke Black, by the way, which together make up only 17,000 words. The nucleus of Past Masters 11 perhaps. Or Roy Glashan's Library, or both.