Having already embarked on a commercially and critically successful series of Bond novels, Fleming by the late 1950s began occasionally to sell Bond short stories to highprofile periodicals. His first collection of stories, For Your Eyes Only, arose from teleplays he had written for a CBS television series under development based on the Bond character. When that project fell through, Fleming reworked them into the short stories Risico, For Your Eyes Only, and From a View to a Kill. This collection was rounded out with two more pieces—Quantum of Solace and The Hildebrand Rarity—which earlier Fleming had sold to magazines.