A one-woman show, with three magazines to show for it

“I am the editorial conference. If you ask someone else’s opinion, you only get what they think you expect.” — Daisy Bacon, quoted in the Miami Herald in December 1942, on why she didn’t consult with her staff in choosing stories.*

Bacon edited the popular pulp fiction weekly Love Story, while also editing two other Street & Smith pulps, Detective Story and Romantic Range, the latter of which specialized in cowboy and cowgirl love stories. Said to read more than a million words a week while searching for suitable manuscripts, Bacon was nicknamed the “readin’est woman” alive.  

*The Herald attributed the quote to an interview in Parade’s Weekly, a 5-cent newsstand picture magazine that appears to have been a forerunner of today’s Sunday newspaper supplement Parade Magazine.