Possible Clues:

• Twenty-five-pound envelope for returned subscription, grand for another title
• Alvin Stardust, for instance, is somewhat hammy -- no, due spectacular comeback
• George Eliot's one novel mused on extremes of parsimony
• Does my pun get republished under another name?
• O. Henry, for one
• What could make my opus end in the style of George Eliot?
• No fees held up by former foreign secretary Paul, for example
• Lewis Carroll, e.g.
• The Red Baron was one pretentious person on my list!
• Change used on my novel?