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William Wallace Cook (1867-1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and author of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, 
dime novels
The dime novel is a form of late 19th-century and early 20th-century U.S. popular fiction issued in series of inexpensive paperbound editions. The term ''dime novel'' has been used as a catchall term for several different but related forms, r ...
, serials and screen and stage plays. He is best remembered for his science-fiction works.
Cook also created ''Plotto'', a system for plot suggestion and content structure that fiction writers can use. This came out in the 1920s, and in 1934 came out with a 7 part instruction guide.
As by John Milton Edwards he wrote ''The Fiction Factory: Being the Experience of a Writer Who, for Twenty-Two Years, has Kept a Story-Mill Grinding Successfully'' in 1912.
Works
* ''Cast Away at the Pole'' (1904) * ''Adrift in the Unknown'' (1905) * ''Marooned in 1492'' (1905) * ''The Fiction Factory'' (1912) * ''Gold Grabbers'' (1914) * ''Around The World In Eighty Hours'' (1920) * ''A Round Trip to the Year 2000'' (1925)References
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cook, William Wallace 1867 births 1933 deaths American journalists American science fiction writers