![]() ![]() Yet despite the enormity of his output, a 1963 profile in Pix magazine revealed he approached deadlines 'with the reluctance of a long-distance swimmer shivering on the brink of a cold, grey English Channel. Al Wheeler, Rick Holman, Danny Boyd, Larry Baker, Zelda Roxanne, et al. In reality, Yates was truly prolific with 322 published Carter Brown novels, including multiple series variously featuring protagonists Mike Farrell, Andy Kane, Mavis Seidlitz, Lt. The extraordinary early success of Carter Brown in the 1950s meant that Yates was contracted to produce one short novel and two long novels each month. But it was his pseudonym Peter Carter Brown then later, Carter Brown ('Peter' was dropped for the US market) who was to become the international best-selling pulp fiction author. ![]() He even found the time to write books under various versions of his own name as well as other pseudonyms, Dennis Sinclair and Sinclair MacKellar. He wrote westerns under the pseudonym Todd Conway, and science fiction under Paul Valdez. ![]() ![]() He began his working life as a film technician, a salesman and in public relations for Qantas before taking up writing full-time. Born in England, Alan Yates married and settled in Australia in 1948. ![]()
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