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As a full-time free-lance writer since 1983, Ed has written for many magazines: The old Empire, the Sunday magazine of the Denver Post; Computer Shopper (he was the assembly-language columnist for a while); PC Computing; Profiles (the Kaypro computer users' magazine; he was the CP/M columnist at the end), Farm Journal, Country Journal, Bloomsbury Review, Clean Scene (a laundry trade journal), Utne Reader, Midnight Engineering, Spirit: the Magazine of the Southwest; the Los Angeles Times, High Country News (he remains a regular contributer); and doubtless some he's forgotten now.
Ed and Martha founded Colorado Central Magazine in 1994 and ran it until early 2009, when they sold it to Mike Rosso of Salida. Ed wrote thousands of words -- articles, reviews, briefs, essays -- for the magazine, most of which are available online at cozine.com.
As for books, Ed has written, co-written, or ghost-written these works:
The White Stuff: The Bottom Line on Cocaine, written with B.J. Plasket, published in 1985 by Dell.
Spitbol 386, published in 1986 by Catspaw. Most of this was written by Mark Emmer, who ported this old but powerful mainframe prograamming language to the PC, as he had earlier with SNOBOL4. Ed did editing and indexing, and contributed some writing.
SPITBOL is an acronym for SPeedy ImplemenTation of snoBOL, and SNOBOL supposedly stands for StriNg-Oriented and symBOlic Language. You can get a freeware version of SNOBOL4 for Linux or Windows from Phil Budne, and note that all the text on this website was formatted for HTML with his SNOBOL4 for GNU/Linux.
Mentally Tough: The Principle of Winning in Sports Applied to Business, published in 1986 by M. Evans & Co. Ed was the ghost-writer for James E. Loehr and Peter J. McLaughlin.
Martha and Ed ghost-wrote adult Westerns for the NAL/Signet Trailsman series. All books in the series are supposedly written by Jon Sharpe, a pseudonym that covers many other ghostwriters. It should be noted that the contracts called for sex and violence, and made no mention of enduring literary merit. These Westerns are:
Confederate Challenge, 1987; Santa Fe Slaughter, 1987; Colorado Robber, 1988; Minnesota Missionary, 1988; Smoky Hell Trail, 1988; Utah Slaughter, 1988; Texas Hell Country, 1989; Mexican Massacre, 1989; Cave of Death, 1989; and Desperate Dispatch, 1989.
Occasionally, an anthology uses one or more of Ed's columns or articles, but it's hard to remember them.
Deep in the Heart of the Rockies, a collection of about 120 of Ed's Denver Post columns from 1986 to 1998, was published in 1998 by Music Mountain Press of Westcliffe. Ed still has a few copies, available for $15 apiece, postpaid in the U.S., from Ed Quillen, P.O. Box 548, Salida CO 81201.
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