canaveral also published original books by lupoff, e. e. doc smith, l. sprague de camp and catherine crook de camp. lupoff recalled, "after assembling a couple of volumes of burroughs' previously uncollected short stories and preparing several of his unpublished novels for release, i was asked by the owners of the company, jack biblo and jack tannen, to write a book about him. that was the genesis of "edgar rice burroughs: master of adventure", my first book."