![]() ![]() ![]() Editor Nancy Coffey provided a $1500 advance and arranged for an initial 500,000 print run. The first publisher on her list, Avon, quickly purchased the novel. Rather than follow the advice of the rejection letters and rewrite the novel, Woodiwiss instead submitted it to paperback publishers. Her debut novel, The Flame and the Flower, was rejected by agents and hardcover publishers as being too long at 600 pages. After buying her husband an electric typewriter as a Christmas present, she appropriated the machine to begin her novel in earnest. During these years, she attempted to write a novel several times, but each time stopped in frustration at the slow pace of writing in longhand. After over three years in Japan, the family moved to Topeka, Kansas and then settled in Minnesota. Her husband's military career led them to live in Japan, where she worked part-time as a fashion model for an American-owned modeling agency. She attended school locally and graduated in 1957. They married the following year, on July 20, 1956. Air Force Second Lieutenant Ross Eugene Woodiwiss at a dance. ![]()
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