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ship,” he said.
With the selection of "Saved!" as an offering by both the Literary Guild and Book-of-the-Month, 37-year old Hoffer looks like a new young face on the literary scene. Actually, he’s been at his trade for 13 years and so misses out on being described as an overnight success.
A graduate of Columbia Union College, a Seventh Day Adventist school in Washington, D. C., Hoffer’s degree is in public speaking, not literature. As a freshipdn, he took his first and only course in creative writing. “That implanted the dream but I sat on it for quite a while," he said.
During a tour in the Army. Hoffer began to free lance but collected rejection slips instead of checks. It took him a year before he sold his first story and he only sold two before his release from service but it was enough to keep the writing bug alive.
After his discharge, he kept on at free lance attempts and paid the bills by working full-time for trade magazines, first plumbing and then life insurance publications.
After a while of this double duty. Hoffer realized that he was spreading himself too thin and one had to go. He took the plunge and quit his job with the trade publication. Between 1970 and 1975, his income depended exclusively on the articles he sold to magazines.
It wasn’t until the success of "Midnight Express” that he could take a deep breath and relax. "I got
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