A BUDDING AUTHOR

NZ Truth, Issue 1052, 21 January 1926, Page 6

A BUDDING AUTHOR

A TYPEWRITER, plenty of spare time, and the IDEA. This Is ;^ Harvey Cook's recipe' for a novel. ; I Harvey Cook is I/yttelton's own ex- '-■, ■* elusive author, whose first book, "Far Flung," has just been published m, London. ' . . He wrote the novel more for the purpose of recreation than with any idea of seeing it m print. He was a sur- \ prised man when the publisher wrote and told him he had landed' first pop: ! Harvey is very pleased over the whole business. He, works m the office of the Lyttelton Harbor Board, and m spite of congratulatory letters from all over N.Z. he can still find a hat that will fit-.-; him. . :••■..' ~'JIf he gets the time he may bring- out ■ " another book — "that is, if the publisher „:T will take a repeat dose."/