sporadic fiction writer, his first known published story, One Burning Minute, received serialized newspaper syndication in August–October, 1926. Soon after, his first known pulp story, "The Throwback," appeared in Weird Tales (October 1926) under the pseudonym Orlin Frederick. In 1927, Tremaine become president of a trust that attempted to take control of the Phelps Publishing Company, publisher of New England Homestead and other magazines. The deal collapsed when financing fell through. Tremaine rebounded with another group in incorporating the Crossroads Publishing Company. A year later, he was involved in yet another publishing enterprise, the Perennial Publishing Company. In early 1928, he was slated to be editor of a new Christian magazine, Crossroads. No issues are known of. Later in 1929, he joined the Clayton pulp publishing chain. He edited Miss 1929, soon renamed Miss 1930. After four issues, Miss 1930 was sold to Tremaine's Perennial Publishing Company, presumably part of Tremaine's departure from Clayton. Tremaine intended to continue editing Miss 1930, but there are no known issues for Perennial. In late 1931, Alfred A. Cohen, publisher of Screenland and Silver Screen, purchased Everybody's Magazine from Butterick and attempted to revive it with Tremaine as editor. No known issues were produced and the magazine was soon declared discontinued. Tremaine returned to Clayton, editing the humor magazine Bunk (late 1932), and My Love Story Magazine (and its retitling Love Classic Magazine) (late 1932 to early 1933). At one point, Tremaine was Clayton's editor-in-chief, but it's unclear when. In 1933, Clayton went bankrupt and some of its assets were purchased by publisher Street & Smith. Tremaine joined Street & Smith, initially to edit three of the former Clayton titles: Astounding Stories (assisted by Desmond Hall, another Clayton transfer), Clues, and Cowboy Stories. At his peak, Tremaine was responsible for seven Street & Smith pulps: October 1933 (2 titles): Astounding Stories, Clues November 1933 (3): added Cowboy Stories December 1933 (4): added Top-Notch Magazine March 1935 (5): added Bill Barnes, Air Adventurer [retitled Bill Barnes Air Trails (October 1935), then Air Trails (February 1937)] October 1935 (6): added Dynamic Adventures November 1935 (7): added Romance Range (retitled Romantic Range after 5 issues) June 1936 (6): last issue of Dynamic Adventures mid-1937 (5): last edited issue of Clues September 1937 (3): last edited issues of Astounding and Top-Notch December 1937 (2): last edited issue of Cowboy Stories late 1937 (0): last edited issues of Air