George Scithers, 1929-2010

Very sad to hear the news about the passing of George Scithers over at Bill Crider's blog. I never met Scithers, the longtime co-editor of Weird Tales magazine, but he was a huge influence on me. He was incredibly kind to a certain 17-year-old nerd hoping to intern at his magazine. And if it weren't for Scithers, all of my novels might have had the name "Duane Louis" on them.