Sally Singer

Sally M. Singer (born December 23, 1930) is an American writer who penned lesbian pulp fiction from the late 1950s through the mid-1970s.

[7] Sally Singer started exploring the gay scene in her teens and she was in a committed, healthy relationship with a woman by the time she was writing her first book, Three Women.

The book follows a lesbian relationship's slip into despair, and by the end one turns into a psychotic mess and the other finds “true love” with her old high-school boyfriend.

This doesn’t reflect me at all' ... but I really had no choice in the matter.”[8] This is most likely in reference to the heavy censorship and publisher control over lesbian-themed pulps during Singer's time; on that matter, Singer wrote: "We all know the publishing climate in those days: same sex affection is out of the mainstream loop in this country, therefore, give it to us overtly for fun and games (hetero titillation) but make sure you tack on an ending of misery, punishment, sadness—that was the commercial voice, loud and distinct.”[9] Because of this, and probably to maintain her privacy and safety, Singer wrote under the pseudonyms Laura Duchamp and March Hastings for her lesbian pulp.

[10] Other pseudonyms of Singer's included Viveca Ives, under which she penned The Fox and his Vixen (1977),[11] and Alden Stowe, under which she wrote Heiress (1977).

I gave them my integrity in the story-middle, and the feelings there implied our secret pact that one day it would all come right—which it did.”[9] By the end of her writing career, Singer boasted upwards of 132 novels, written under various pseudonyms.

Purportedly, at one point in her life, she was romantically involved with another author of lesbian pulp books, Pat Perdue (who wrote under the pseudonym Randy Salem).