1977-1980. More than two dozen pieces of correspondence from McIntyre to her publisher during the time surrounding the release of her Hugo and Nebula Award winning novel Dreamsnake and her story collection Fireflood, along with a completed author questionnaire, as well as words of praise from Ursula LeGuin, Marge Piercy, Kenneth Rexroth, and Roger Zelazny. The early letters and the author questionnaire find McIntyre trying to decide on the Dreamsnake title and attempting to steer the marketing for her book away from "adolescent male fantasy" science fiction and toward women and feminists. It's in this early stage that Rexroth asks to read the book, and LeGuin and Piercy submit blurbs (with LeGuin equating the book to a mountain stream, while Piercy calls it complicated and kinky). The letters that follow take up issues such as author photos, reviewer copies, sci fi conventions and autograph parties, and the possibility of Dreamsnake promotional decals. The 1979 letters begin to deal with the stories to be included in Fireflood, as well as its artwork and promotion, and with Dreamsnake being nominated for the Hugo ("I don't expect it to win--I think Anne McCaffrey will take it for The White Dragon"). A second autograph postcard signed from Ursula LeGuin begs off submitting praise for Fireflood as she was the dedicatee of McIntyre's first book and featured with a blurb on the next, and wishes to avoid the "claque" effect. Piercy and Zelazny do come through here, submitting blurbs. After this comes the news of Fireflood stories being anthologized, including in Terry Carr's Best Science Fiction of the Year. In all, there are 21 typed letters signed; 4 typed notes signed; 1 typed postcard signed; and one autograph letter signed by McIntyre, as well as the author questionnaire, and the six notes from the four other authors. There are nearly 20 copies of retained letters or memos from the publisher; a publicity sheet for Dreamsnake; a proof jacket for Fireflood; and 5 author photos. About one-third of the letters have a small upper corner stain, not affecting text. Some of the letters bear publisher notations. The lot is near fine. A very interesting archive from the first decade in which women were publishing science fiction without disguising their gender by using initials or pseudonyms. [#036717] $3,750