| William Wallace Cook | |
| Birth Date: | 11 April 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
| Death Place: | Marshall, Calhoun County, Michigan, United States |
| Occupation: | Author |
| Genre: | Westerns and Dime novels |
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William Wallace Cook (1867–1933) also known by the pen-name John Milton Edwards, was an American journalist and writer of popular fiction. His works include westerns, adventure stories, dime novels, serials and screen and stage plays.[1] He is best remembered for his science-fiction works.[2]
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.[3]
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.