One year ago, before I became a full-time staff editor at Xulon Press, I received a call from someone on the Xulon acquisitions team asking if I would be interested in taking on a freelance project. The project, he explained, would be some combination of ghostwriting, line editing, manuscript development and material compilation. In the Land of the Editor, this basically meant that he had no earthly clue what this author actually needed. Enter Larry Fridley. Born July 26, 1924, in Hazel Green, West Virginia, he was a former sailor in the United States Navy, and one of the most…