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Post by deuce on Dec 4, 2017 12:13:51 GMT -5
Bibliorati is a great site founded by Tommy Hancock, publisher of the "New Pulp" imprint, Pro Se Productions. The website presently has a GoFundMe drive going: www.gofundme.com/support-biblioratiIt really is an excellent website, so feel free to jump in for the win.  
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Post by deuce on Dec 4, 2017 13:35:09 GMT -5
"I thought I might mention that on Friday I turned in my 355th novel. I have part of the next one done already (I put it aside to work on the one I just turned in), so I hope to finish it up in another two or three weeks and then get another one done by the end of the year. I've already slowed down some from my peak production and suspect that trend will continue, but I'd like to keep plugging away at it long enough to get to 400 novels."
-- James ReasonerThat is frikkin' amazing. True "pulp style" output. James Reasoner was "Retro-Pulp/Neo-Pulp/What-Have-You" long before it was cool. An excellent writer and a big Howard fan. He also has his own publishing house. Check it out here: roughedgespress.yolasite.com/ James Reasoner, an inspiration to us all:
"Due to a schedule bottleneck largely of my own making, I wound up with just three weeks to write an 80,000 word historical novel. That would have been a pretty fast pace even back in my younger days, and now it's a lot more than I normally do. But I felt like I had to give it a try.
So just a few minutes ago, I sent the manuscript to my editor in New York. 82,522 words written in 19 straight days. Not something I'd want to do again any time soon. But I think the book turned out to be pretty good, and that's the most important thing.
I'll be starting the next one tomorrow."Asked how he did it, he said this:
"After sitting in a room and typing for the past 40 years, I wouldn't know what else to do. But I plan to find out one of these days! I generally have a five or six page outline/synopsis. I've written books with no outline and only a vague idea of what the plot would be, and I've written them with highly detailed fifty or sixty page outlines. The publisher insisted on those really long ones, or I never would have written them. I like enough of a roadmap that I don't get lost but I like having some leeway, too." |
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Post by deuce on Dec 6, 2017 10:22:30 GMT -5
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Post by Jason Aiken on Dec 7, 2017 15:10:33 GMT -5
Cirsova is having their 2018 Spring/Summer subscription drive via Kickstarter. Your friendly admin has a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery short story in #7.   |
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Post by deuce on Dec 8, 2017 12:14:29 GMT -5
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Post by Von K on Dec 9, 2017 3:30:31 GMT -5
Cirsova is having their 2018 Spring/Summer subscription drive via Kickstarter. Your friendly admin has a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery short story in #7. I am glad to see Cirsova doing well, and congrats on getting a story placed there Jason. |
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Post by deuce on Dec 10, 2017 10:30:23 GMT -5
Cirsova is having their 2018 Spring/Summer subscription drive via Kickstarter. Your friendly admin has a post-apocalyptic sword-and-sorcery short story in #7. Right on, Jason! Alex Kimball publishes a worthy mag. I'm liking that cover. |
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Post by deuce on Dec 14, 2017 1:39:23 GMT -5
Geek Gab's Daddy Warpig interviews PulpRev author, Dominika Lein. She discusses how she discovered the PulpRev scene and how her fiction has evolved because of it. She also talks about her new book, Reptilian Wanderer. The interview proper begins about 17:15. She mentions reading Robert E. Howard Conan yarns at 37:00.  |
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Post by deuce on Dec 16, 2017 12:17:34 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Dec 29, 2017 2:18:54 GMT -5
Bryce Beattie of StoryHack is back open for submissions: www.storyhack.com/submissions/"I’m open to any genre, as long as there’s action and adventure. And I’m serious when I say any genre. Space opera, spy thriller, sword & sorcery, lost world, high-seas swashbuckling, occult detective, treasure hunt / explorer, western, technothriller, you’re limited only by your imagination. As to style, think Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, A. Merritt, Leigh Brackett, Doc E. E. Smith, Kenneth Robeson. Think fun and energetic. I’m not partial to mopey emo fiction."
-- Bryce Beattie, publisher/editor of StoryHackGet in on this, writers. Past issues of StoryHack have been solid. IMO, one of the best mags out there.  |
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Post by deuce on Dec 30, 2017 12:35:56 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 1, 2018 5:17:27 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 7, 2018 21:00:06 GMT -5
Jason Anspach and Nick Cole aren't officially PulpRev, but they have strong ties to that scene. Nathan Housley of The Pulp Archivist takes a look at the pulpy new space opera series from Anspach and Cole: For those who prefer a more militaristic take on the Star Wars formula, there’s Galaxy’s Edge, the breakout series of 2017 by Jason Anspach and Nick Cole. Released on a monthly basis, this saga of a spreading galactic civil war starts with Galaxy's Edge: Legionnaire and the Battle of Kublar. And in the words of Sergeant Chhun:
"The galaxy is a dumpster fire. A hot, stinking, dumpster fire. And most days I don’t know if the legionnaires are putting out the flames, or fanning them into an inferno."
At Kublar, Sergeant Chhun gets his answer. As a member of the Legion, an elite fighting regiment that the Empire’s stormtroopers should have been, he is thrust into the mire of a peacekeeping mission alongside Victory Company. But when their cruiser Chiasm explodes overhead, what should have been an annoying milk run turns into a debacle of the likes of Black Hawk Down. Now, fighting every step of the way towards their eventual extraction, the skills of Sergeant Chhun and Victory Company are put to the test as an entire planet tries to wipe them out, spurred on by the meddling of rebels. And it is this spark that will soon blaze into civil war.
Without a doubt, Legionnaire owes a debt to Clone Wars. Like the animated series, the troopers are a mix of numbers and nicknames, fighting for each other with all the grit and professionalism demanded from contemporary mil-sf portrayals. Meanwhile, the machinations of a corrupt and decadent government threaten to erase what the Legion has purchased with blood. If this is a familiar story to vets and history buffs, it is one played out on the headlines of the last fifteen years. When recounting the genesis of the series, Jason Anspach said, “Legionnaire was an idea I had after reading a soldier’s memoir recounting his time fighting house-to-house in Fallujah. I thought, what if I wrote a book like this, only put in a Star Wars-like future? And so, Legionnaire was born.” The result, as one reader put it, is “a work of military science fiction so detailed you can feel the equipment and choke on the dust.”
The fires of the Battle of Kublar forge iron bonds between the survivors that get tested time and again as, each in their own way, they fight to prevent the slide into disillusionment and chaos. And when the Legion splits in the civil war, those siding with the usurping forces do so in an attempt to force the Legion to return to the ways that once brought it glory. This adds a welcome touch of moral complexity to the ensuing war that Star Wars lacks..
Later books will expand into smugglers vs. bounty hunters and intrigue, but the heart of the Galaxy’s Edge series is the remnant of Victory Company and the Legion.__________________________________________________ More books in the series are already out. This is looking to be very cool. I haven't heard a bad thing about this series from any of the people whose opinions I trust. Somehow, I need to squeeze this into my reading queue. Legionnaire can be bought here: www.amazon.com/Legionnaire-Galaxys-Edge-Book-1-ebook/dp/B071GN8Y4GLoads of overwhelmingly positive reviews.  |
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Post by deuce on Jan 10, 2018 2:20:04 GMT -5
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Post by deuce on Jan 17, 2018 0:53:38 GMT -5
William Michael Mott has been promoting, publishing and writing pulp-style fiction for years now. He's got a cool little collection of his work here: www.gravedistractions.com/pulp-winds.phpHere's a link to the preview: www.gravedistractions.com/pulp-winds-preview.phpThe blurb:
Pulp Winds, the long-awaited collection of short fiction, verse, and Forteana by Wm. Michael Mott, has been unleashed for mass consumption! With introductions by Walter Bosley, Brad Steiger, and Gerald W. Page, these tales will take you from the antediluvian world to lost cities beneath the earth, onward to other planets around distant stars, and even to the Dark Ages, the Old West and the High Seas. New twists on mythos and madness are inter-meshed and presented in these yarns of terror and adventure! Profusely illustrated, and reminiscent of pulp fiction and verse of a bygone era, Pulp Winds is a literary adventure of a type scarcely seen today! |
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