This is now the re-edited version! No longer missing an early & important chunk of her life! So sorry about that! Missy & April didnt realize the recording had stopped, so had to go back in & edit in that missing piece of her life. We record in a parking garage, so please excuse the echo during that part! Ok, just kidding no parking garage, but sure sounds like it! Not sure what happened there, but you, at least, now have the full & complete story of Judy Lynn Del Rey! Thank you for your patience!

 

Today’s “Sheela”, Judy-Lynn del Rey (1943-1986) was a New York sci-fi and fantasy editor and a woman with dwarfism who revolutionized the world of sci-fi editing with books from luminaries such as Arthur C. Clarke, Isaac Asimov, and Philip K. Dick. Between 1977 and 1990, Del Rey Books was so dominant on the science fiction and fantasy market that they had 65 different titles reach a bestseller list. Del Rey brought us many of the classic sci-fi greats and was instrumental in obtaining the rights to publish novels based on George Lucas’s “Star Wars,” selling 4.5 million copies months before the first movie was even released. Del Rey Books continues to be a publishing leader in science fiction to this day, but not enough folks know who Judy-Lynn Del Rey is and what an indelible mark she left on the Sci-Fi world and the role of editor.