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Post by deuce on Jul 15, 2018 12:44:35 GMT -5
Pro Se are having a big push this month. not only announcing new release titles but also announcing lots of submission projects. Most of these aren't straight slush pile--you need to send proposals, etc. They just announced they are looking to run three or four serial/episodic stories for a 12 month run. If anyone really wants to work on their "pulp speed" chops. www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions/posts%2F874836856051639Between Hancock at Pro Se, Kimball at Cirsova and Michael "Wild Stars" Tierney, Arkansas can lay credible claim to being "New Pulp Central". BTW, congrats, Paul!  |
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Post by thorn on Jul 18, 2018 18:19:01 GMT -5
 When Vegtam the Wanderer came to Herod-Thaar he was expecting good coin to play his lute and sing. Instead he kills a snake-man and has to go on the run with Tawna, the beautiful tavern wench. Their only possible escape from the reptilian-ruled city is a path through the demon-haunted ruins of Nephasth. Will Vegtam and Tawna escape the horrors closing in on them, let alone those that lie ahead? Find out in this collection of six savage sword-and-sorcery tales from the pen of Howie K. Bentley! www.howiebentley.com |
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Post by deuce on Jul 20, 2018 8:56:35 GMT -5
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Post by emerald on Jul 21, 2018 15:38:26 GMT -5
Hey, I'm thinking as I read, this is a pretty solid little review. Then I see who wrote it.
Well, that makes sense now, doesn't it? Thanks for the thumbs-up, Deuce.
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Post by deuce on Jul 22, 2018 8:31:46 GMT -5
Hey, I'm thinking as I read, this is a pretty solid little review. Then I see who wrote it.
Well, that makes sense now, doesn't it? Thanks for the thumbs-up, Deuce.
Hey, no problem. It was a fun story! |
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Post by thorn on Jul 24, 2018 23:55:52 GMT -5
Sword-and-sorcery in the tradition of Robert E. Howard and Karl Edward Wagner! Download a free story with illustrations by Mr Zarono. www.howiebentley.com |
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Post by Derrick on Aug 5, 2018 7:59:49 GMT -5
Derrick Ferguson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, which as most right thinking people know is The Center of The Known Universe. After a diverse and somewhat infamous career in the security field working for various employers such as the NY Board of Education and Home Depot he retired early to take care of his health and dedicate his life to the one overwhelming passion of his life: the telling of stories that he hopes entertain and excites those who read them.
“I’ve been telling stories and writing them for as long as I can remember. Mostly retelling stories that I read in comic books, saw on TV or just heard from others verbally. My first crack at true creative innovation came from when I was seized with a inexplicable obsession with Mad magazine’s “Spy Vs. Spy.” I filled up whole spiral notebooks writing two and three page stories about those characters. From then on I just wrote whatever struck my fancy. I wrote stories about my favorite superheroes such as Thor, The Black Panther and Iron Man. You could say I was ahead of my time as I was writing fan fiction before I knew what fan fiction was. I would also write Edgar Rice Burroughs influenced stories about my classmates. When I was supposed to be doing my schoolwork I was making up stories with my classmates as the characters. I would write on both sides of a sheet of loose leaf notepaper and that was a chapter that ended on a cliffhanger. Once it made the rounds of the classroom, I’d start on the next chapter.”
Derrick wrote mostly for his own enjoyment during the 1970s and 1980s. During this time he submitted manuscripts to various publishers who sent them back as fast as he sent them out. New opportunities came about with the advent of The Internet. Derrick quickly became involved in Star Trek fan fiction communities as well as Marvel and DC fan fiction. It wasn’t long before Derrick and a number of his fellow fan fiction writers joined together to create Frontier Publishing, a fiction website devoted to publishing serialized novels. At the site’s hey-day there were at least half a dozen serialized novels going strong at one time. Derrick’s first Dillon novel, Dillon and The Voice of Odin was presented first at Frontier.
Unfortunately, Frontier Publishing had to close up shop after a couple of years, and that may have been the end for Derrick’s writing career and his now-beloved character Dillon if Derrick’s friend and fellow writer Russ Anderson hadn’t cajoled him into sending the completed serial off to a publishing house for one last shot at getting his writing into print.
“If anybody has read and enjoyed my Dillon stories then they should go right now and send Russ a thank you email. If I’m Dillon’s daddy then Russ is his granddaddy,” Derrick said. “If it hadn’t been for Russ kicking me in the ass and throwing considerable support behind me to get that book published, you might not still be reading Dillon adventures today.”
Thanks to Russ, Dillon and the Voice of Odin was finally published in 2003 in paperback—or “dead tree format” as Derrick facetiously calls it—, Derrick’s professional writing career began in earnest.
Like many writers, Derrick is a voracious reader, and it was quite difficult for him to narrow down the list of writers who have influenced him over the years. “That would be a really long list if I had to name all the writers who have influenced me,” he said. “But I’ll just give you The Dirty Dozen of the writers I love the most and who I feel have influenced me the most: Robert E. Howard. Chester Himes. Roger Zelazny. Ishmael Reed. Mike Resnick. Jim Steranko. Ian Fleming. Larry McMurtry. Robert R. McCammon. Lester Dent. Charles Saunders. George C. Chesbro.”
What drives Derrick in his career as a writer? “I like telling stories,” he said. “It is no deeper than that. For some reason God gave me the gift of making up outrageous stories and the ability to communicate them in an entertaining manner through prose . . . What do I hope to achieve? That my stories can entertain and maybe make somebody’s day a little easier and maybe make them forget their troubles for a couple of hours.”
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Post by deuce on Aug 5, 2018 13:40:56 GMT -5
Just a few days left for the Cirsova Kickstarter. This won't be the end of Cirsova, just "Volume One" with "Volume Two" to follow.
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Post by Derrick on Aug 6, 2018 8:49:35 GMT -5
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Post by paulmc on Aug 6, 2018 9:59:00 GMT -5
Derrick Ferguson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, which as most right thinking people know is The Center of The Known Universe. After a diverse and somewhat infamous career in the security field working for various employers such as the NY Board of Education and Home Depot he retired early to take care of his health and dedicate his life to the one overwhelming passion of his life: the telling of stories that he hopes entertain and excites those who read them. “I’ve been telling stories and writing them for as long as I can remember. Mostly retelling stories that I read in comic books, saw on TV or just heard from others verbally. My first crack at true creative innovation came from when I was seized with a inexplicable obsession with Mad magazine’s “Spy Vs. Spy.” I filled up whole spiral notebooks writing two and three page stories about those characters. From then on I just wrote whatever struck my fancy. I wrote stories about my favorite superheroes such as Thor, The Black Panther and Iron Man. You could say I was ahead of my time as I was writing fan fiction before I knew what fan fiction was. I would also write Edgar Rice Burroughs influenced stories about my classmates. When I was supposed to be doing my schoolwork I was making up stories with my classmates as the characters. I would write on both sides of a sheet of loose leaf notepaper and that was a chapter that ended on a cliffhanger. Once it made the rounds of the classroom, I’d start on the next chapter.” Derrick wrote mostly for his own enjoyment during the 1970s and 1980s. During this time he submitted manuscripts to various publishers who sent them back as fast as he sent them out. New opportunities came about with the advent of The Internet. Derrick quickly became involved in Star Trek fan fiction communities as well as Marvel and DC fan fiction. It wasn’t long before Derrick and a number of his fellow fan fiction writers joined together to create Frontier Publishing, a fiction website devoted to publishing serialized novels. At the site’s hey-day there were at least half a dozen serialized novels going strong at one time. Derrick’s first Dillon novel, Dillon and The Voice of Odin was presented first at Frontier. Unfortunately, Frontier Publishing had to close up shop after a couple of years, and that may have been the end for Derrick’s writing career and his now-beloved character Dillon if Derrick’s friend and fellow writer Russ Anderson hadn’t cajoled him into sending the completed serial off to a publishing house for one last shot at getting his writing into print. “If anybody has read and enjoyed my Dillon stories then they should go right now and send Russ a thank you email. If I’m Dillon’s daddy then Russ is his granddaddy,” Derrick said. “If it hadn’t been for Russ kicking me in the ass and throwing considerable support behind me to get that book published, you might not still be reading Dillon adventures today.” Thanks to Russ, Dillon and the Voice of Odin was finally published in 2003 in paperback—or “dead tree format” as Derrick facetiously calls it—, Derrick’s professional writing career began in earnest. Like many writers, Derrick is a voracious reader, and it was quite difficult for him to narrow down the list of writers who have influenced him over the years. “That would be a really long list if I had to name all the writers who have influenced me,” he said. “But I’ll just give you The Dirty Dozen of the writers I love the most and who I feel have influenced me the most: Robert E. Howard. Chester Himes. Roger Zelazny. Ishmael Reed. Mike Resnick. Jim Steranko. Ian Fleming. Larry McMurtry. Robert R. McCammon. Lester Dent. Charles Saunders. George C. Chesbro.” What drives Derrick in his career as a writer? “I like telling stories,” he said. “It is no deeper than that. For some reason God gave me the gift of making up outrageous stories and the ability to communicate them in an entertaining manner through prose . . . What do I hope to achieve? That my stories can entertain and maybe make somebody’s day a little easier and maybe make them forget their troubles for a couple of hours.”
Welcome! I look forward to digging into Dillon soon!
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Post by paulmc on Aug 6, 2018 10:00:06 GMT -5
That's a great list. I will be working my way through it in the near to mid term. Thank you. |
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Post by deuce on Aug 6, 2018 10:29:59 GMT -5
Today's announcement from WB editor, Doug Draa: Aug 18: Weirdbook #40
Sept 18: Startlings Stories
October 18: Weirdbook Annual ( The Cthulhu Mythos)
November 18: Weirdbook #41
And my first pro (as editor) anthology, What October Brings, will also be out in September/October
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Post by Derrick on Aug 6, 2018 11:38:22 GMT -5
That's a great list. I will be working my way through it in the near to mid term. Thank you. You're more than welcome. I hope it will help you navigate your way through the overwhelming tide of New Pulp books out there and aid you in finding some quality reading that will make you a New Pulp fan for life. |
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Post by Derrick on Aug 6, 2018 11:40:02 GMT -5
Derrick Ferguson was born and raised in Brooklyn, NY, which as most right thinking people know is The Center of The Known Universe. After a diverse and somewhat infamous career in the security field working for various employers such as the NY Board of Education and Home Depot he retired early to take care of his health and dedicate his life to the one overwhelming passion of his life: the telling of stories that he hopes entertain and excites those who read them. “I’ve been telling stories and writing them for as long as I can remember. Mostly retelling stories that I read in comic books, saw on TV or just heard from others verbally. My first crack at true creative innovation came from when I was seized with a inexplicable obsession with Mad magazine’s “Spy Vs. Spy.” I filled up whole spiral notebooks writing two and three page stories about those characters. From then on I just wrote whatever struck my fancy. I wrote stories about my favorite superheroes such as Thor, The Black Panther and Iron Man. You could say I was ahead of my time as I was writing fan fiction before I knew what fan fiction was. I would also write Edgar Rice Burroughs influenced stories about my classmates. When I was supposed to be doing my schoolwork I was making up stories with my classmates as the characters. I would write on both sides of a sheet of loose leaf notepaper and that was a chapter that ended on a cliffhanger. Once it made the rounds of the classroom, I’d start on the next chapter.” Derrick wrote mostly for his own enjoyment during the 1970s and 1980s. During this time he submitted manuscripts to various publishers who sent them back as fast as he sent them out. New opportunities came about with the advent of The Internet. Derrick quickly became involved in Star Trek fan fiction communities as well as Marvel and DC fan fiction. It wasn’t long before Derrick and a number of his fellow fan fiction writers joined together to create Frontier Publishing, a fiction website devoted to publishing serialized novels. At the site’s hey-day there were at least half a dozen serialized novels going strong at one time. Derrick’s first Dillon novel, Dillon and The Voice of Odin was presented first at Frontier. Unfortunately, Frontier Publishing had to close up shop after a couple of years, and that may have been the end for Derrick’s writing career and his now-beloved character Dillon if Derrick’s friend and fellow writer Russ Anderson hadn’t cajoled him into sending the completed serial off to a publishing house for one last shot at getting his writing into print. “If anybody has read and enjoyed my Dillon stories then they should go right now and send Russ a thank you email. If I’m Dillon’s daddy then Russ is his granddaddy,” Derrick said. “If it hadn’t been for Russ kicking me in the ass and throwing considerable support behind me to get that book published, you might not still be reading Dillon adventures today.” Thanks to Russ, Dillon and the Voice of Odin was finally published in 2003 in paperback—or “dead tree format” as Derrick facetiously calls it—, Derrick’s professional writing career began in earnest. Like many writers, Derrick is a voracious reader, and it was quite difficult for him to narrow down the list of writers who have influenced him over the years. “That would be a really long list if I had to name all the writers who have influenced me,” he said. “But I’ll just give you The Dirty Dozen of the writers I love the most and who I feel have influenced me the most: Robert E. Howard. Chester Himes. Roger Zelazny. Ishmael Reed. Mike Resnick. Jim Steranko. Ian Fleming. Larry McMurtry. Robert R. McCammon. Lester Dent. Charles Saunders. George C. Chesbro.” What drives Derrick in his career as a writer? “I like telling stories,” he said. “It is no deeper than that. For some reason God gave me the gift of making up outrageous stories and the ability to communicate them in an entertaining manner through prose . . . What do I hope to achieve? That my stories can entertain and maybe make somebody’s day a little easier and maybe make them forget their troubles for a couple of hours.”
Welcome! I look forward to digging into Dillon soon! If you need help I have a DILLON blog that will provide you with more information about him, his background and the books in the series. I'll be updating it sometime this month as some of the information on there is out of date but it's still the place to start. Here's a link: derrickferguson1.wordpress.com/ |
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Post by deuce on Aug 7, 2018 13:16:26 GMT -5
The guys at Geek Gab talked to Schuyler Hernstrom, who's the big S&S/sword & planet author for the PulpRev. Some exciting things on the horizon. Sky shows up at 3:00.
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