"Agents and authors simply believed that Raven House was an ideal dumping ground for trunk manuscripts, failed proposals, and any old shlock that they happened to have lying around"
Helen Heller, Raven House editor, quoted in Paul Grescoe, The Merchants of Venus (Raincoast Books, 1996), page 147.
This quote is a good place to start looking at the forty authors published by Raven House.
Nine had only Raven House titles which had been published earlier, twenty-seven had only paperback originals and four had both. We've already seen one author, Lana Hutton Bowen-Judd, who published ten originals in one year with Raven. I don't know if they were "shlock" but that many titles must have been "lying around" as the author was nearly 60.
Gary Paulsen's (1939-2021) two books with Raven House are among his over 200 books published from 1966 to 2022. In contrast Richard A. Moore's two Raven House books appear to be his only novels.
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