I would love to see a book about game show packagers such as Goodson & Todman, Barry & Enright, Heatter & Quigley, Hatos & Hall, Bob Stewart, Ralph Edwards, John Guedel and the rest, written by someone who doesn't pull fiction out of his a**.
A friend of mine has been working on a book about Jack Barry for about five years now, with help from Barry's family. Hopefully that'll be on its way soon.
My revised version of Monty's biography goes a little more in depth on the history of Hatos & Hall, but not MUCH deeper for reasons I'll go into in a moment.
A friend of mine sent a message to my publisher suggesting I write a book about the history of Bob Stewart Productions and the publisher politely declined.
Quizmaster, if I may say so, gives a nice truncated history of it since Bill and Bob crossed paths so much.
A bunch of people have suggested a book about Goodson & Todman's history, but there are two problems I have with that:
#1. I'd be regurgitating a BUNCH of information that I've already trickled out in other books and I do know that a lot of people own multiple books of mine, so I'm worried about how they'd feel buying a book that's just revisiting a lot of stuff they've already paid for before.
#2. I hate to point this out, but we're at a point where we've lost enough people that I can't go in depth with anything before 1970. A lot of people would suggest "Well, you could talk to their kids." But David Narz said something to me once when he talked about how people have suggested that he write a biography of his dad. "I can't write about my dad's work. I was in school. I was out being a kid. If somebody asked you to write a book about your dad's job, could you do it?"
