Writer Derek Raymond Offers Hope To All Of Us

This is writer Derek Raymond:

Yeah, you wish you could be that suave and badass.

But people like that, they’ve always been like that, haven’t they?

You have to be born like that or just forget it, right?

Well, Derek Raymond was born Robin Cook.

And he once wrote as Robin Cook.

And he looked like this:

So yeah, there’s hope.

But let’s get something straight: There was only one Derek Raymond.

Additional:

Derek Raymond tribute site — newly updated and the source of the Robin Cook image

Previously here and at my other blogs:

Transcript: Writer Derek Raymond Rare TV Interview
Writer Derek Raymond: Rare Videos!
Writer Derek Raymond: New Images
Melville House Finally Does Derek Raymond
Melville House: A Publisher’s Epic Failure
Writer Derek Raymond 80th Birth Anniversary
Gorgeous Cover For Derek Raymond
I Must Read Writer Cathi Unsworth
Derek Raymond: Read ALL Of His Work
The Immortal Writer Derek Raymond
Derek Raymond Still Lives
Derek Raymond Is Your Year-End Reading
God Bless Writer Derek Raymond
Writer Derek Raymond Tribute
Writer Derek Raymond
Derek Raymond: He Makes All Others Look Like Shit