![]() ![]() ![]() It was Walter’s introduction that allowed any of this to happen. “I was 25 hoping to be a writer, but I had no idea what that meant. “Walter was pretty much responsible for all of my books that followed,” Coates said. The younger Coates said Mosley’s support of BCP directly inspired his own writing career and led him to Loomis, who also represents Mosley. Paul Coates about BCP, go to /pwinsider.) Paul has cited Mosley’s gesture as a key factor in the development of BCP, which celebrated its 40th anniversary this year. The book sold more than 100,000 copies, making it one of the biggest books ever published by BCP. In 1996, bestselling novelist Walter Mosley offered Gone Fishin’, an installment in his Easy Rawlins crime series, to Black Classic Press, an independent house founded by Coates’s father, W. Coates says that his interest in publishing with EPA was inspired by a similar effort made by another popular black author. ![]()
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