• E-Books:

• Order the e-book from Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
• Order the e-book from Apple’s iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
• Order the e-book from Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

• Printed Books:

• Order the deluxe signed hardcover: $34.95
• Order the paperback from AdventuresInBronze.com: $24.95
• Order the paperback from Amazon: $24.95

• E-Books:

• Order the e-book from Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
• Order the e-book from Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

Please note that we’re working to get the e-book listed in Apple’s iBookstore right now.

Horror in Gold is even longer than The Desert Demons (clocking in at about 300 pages), but we’ve kept the price the same. Early reviews rank it even higher than The Desert Demons, so this will certainly be the perfect Christmas gift for fans of The Man of Bronze.

Here’s a little information on how we’re releasing Horror in Gold. We’ll be making the paperback edition for sale on www.adventuresinbronze.com in just a matter of days. This will be followed shortly by the e-book version of the title. Later on, we’ll be releasing the deluxe, signed hardcover (also on www.adventuresinbronze.com). So although the release schedule of the formats are slightly different than what we did on The Desert Demons, in the case of Horror in Gold we’ll have all the formats out within a tighter timeframe.

Once the paperback is available, we’ll be adding a link to www.adventuresinbronze.com from this site, and, as we did with The Desert Demons, we’ll be posting Chapter 1.

Thanks again for your patience with us as we made sure Horror in Gold was done right.

The concept behind Pulp Obscura is that Altus Press and Pro Se Press will work in conjunction to produce related products. When Altus Press publishes specially selected titles featuring rare and largely forgotten Pulp characters’ original stories, Pro Se will bring together the best writers of New Pulp today and simultaneously release a collection of newly written tales starring the same character. This stunning partnership will showcase both the classic adventures of some of pulp’s lost treasures while simultaneously allowing New Pulp’s finest to bring those characters back to life.

“This,” Tommy Hancock, Partner in and Editor-in-Chief of Pro Se Productions, “is no easy task. First to provide New Pulp stories, brand new exciting adventures of rare classic Pulp Characters and to coordinate that with Altus Press. But then finding the right creators, the authors who can breathe new life into these concepts and on top of that, deciding and planning which books will come out in the coming year. It’s a heck of a task and one that has been rewarding on so many levels.”

Thirteen books in the Pulp Obscura line from Pro Se have been planned. At least eight of these will be timed to release simultaneously with the reprinted adventures of the same characters as produced by Altus Press. Five more will be published by Pro Se that will feature characters Altus Press has already published the available adventures of in the past.

“We are extremely proud,” Hancock stated, “to be able to announce a fantastic line up of writers for Pulp Obscura. Some of the creators involved are well known figures in the Pulp Community, others are prestigious in other genres and literary fields, and there’s even a blossoming new author or two thrown in the mix. It shows a project has great promise when you as a Publisher simply put a call out for authors who might be interested in participating and you get not only a flood of interest, but also writers who stay on through the selection process of what will be written and who will write it. Pulp Obscura could not have a better line up of creators for both their skill and their commitment.”

“It’s going to be great to see this new material. Interest in the series has been huge and the enthusiasm by the writers will certainly result in plenty of enjoyable reads,” added Matt Moring, publisher of Altus Press. “I cannot recall such a publishing plan ever in the history of the pulp community.”

The writers involved in the Pulp Obscura Line in 2012 are-

• Howard Hopkins
• Allan Gilbreath
• Barry Reese
• Derrick Ferguson
• Joshua Reynolds
• Andrew Salmon
• Nick Ahlhelm
• Jon Edward Klement
• Bobby Nash
• I.A. Watson
• Teel James Glenn
• Nancy Hansen
• Lee Houston, Jr.
• Chuck Miller
• R. P. Steeves
• Don Thomas
• Adam L. Garcia
• Van Allen Plexico
• Frank Schildiner
• Mike Bullock
• Sean Taylor
• Andrea Judy
• C. William Russette
• Phil Bledsoe
• Ashley Mangin
• Russ Anderson
• Brad Mengel
• Terry Alexander
• BC Bell
• James Palmer
• Andrew Hind
• Stefan Dogaru
• Kevin Noel Olson

Just as exciting and important as the lineup of writers involved in PULP OBSCURA is the list of characters and volumes that the Imprint will have in 2012. There are 13 planned volumes from Pro Se for the first year of PULP OBSCURA and the books, along with the writers contributing to them for the first quarter of the year include-

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT VOLUME ONE—Adventures of a daring pilot/detective who encounters lost worlds and oddities galore! Writers:

• Josh Reynolds
• Barry Reese
• Adam Garcia
• I.A. Watson
• Frank Schildiner
• Terry Alexander

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE EAGLE VOLUME ONE—Classic Two Fisted Spy Stories! Pulpy Espionage and Intrigue! Writers:

• Rich Steeves
• Bobby Nash
• Teel James Glenn
• Lee Houston, Jr.
• Ashley Mangin
• Nick Ahlhelm

PRICE OF THE MISSIONARY’S GOLD: THE NEW ADVENTURES OF ARMLESS O’NEIL VOLUME ONE—Classic Pulp Adventure in Exotic Lands seeking Treasure and Action! And with a Tough as Nails Hook Handed Hero! Writers:

• Sean Taylor
• Rich Steeves
• I.A. Watson
• Chuck Miller
• Andrew Hind
• Nick Ahlhelm

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON VOLUME ONE—Thrill to the adventures of Kerry Keen, the masked hero known as The Griffon! High Flying Escapades in the Pursuit of Justice! Writers:

• Don Thomas
• Rich Steeves
• Chuck Miller
• Van Plexico
• Phil Bledsoe
• Stefan Dogaru

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THUNDER JIM WADE VOLUME ONE—Globe Spanning Adventures into the Darkest, Strangest Corners of the World with A Hero Like No Other! Writers:

• Barry Reese
• Andrew Salmon
• Ashley Mangin
• Nick Ahlhelm
• Andrew Hind
• Frank Schildiner

THE CASES OF MAJOR LACY VOLUME ONE—Follow The Major and his intrepid team of men as they take on crimes and criminals No One Else Can Stop! Writers:

• C. William Russette
• Andrew Salmon
• Bobby Nash
• Andrew Hind
• Don Thomas
• Rich Steeves

“At least seven more titles will follow later in 2012 in the Pulp Obscura line,” Hancock stated. “We are immensely excited not only to be a part of something so great, but also because of the fantastic response this concept has received. We hope everyone joins Altus and Pro Se for the wild roller coaster ride into Pulp Obscura!”

For more information on Altus Press, go to www.altuspress.com

To learn more about Pro Se Productions, check out www.prosepulp.com

Press packets and further information can be provided upon request at proseproductions@earthlink.net.

Below is a list of all the e-books we currently have available on the site:

• Doc Savage: The Desert Demons (for the Kindle, iPad/iPhone, and Nook)
• Thunder Jim Wade: The Complete Series (for the Kindle, iPad/iPhone, and Nook)
• Alias The Whirlwind (for the Kindle and Nook)

Recently, we received a few questions regarding our plans for e-books. Yes, we’ve got a heap more titles coming soon… the next wave includes the following:

• The Cobra: King of Detectives
• The Complete Adventures of the Griffon, Volume 1
• The Man in Purple
• Riding the Pulp Trail
• The Weird Adventures of the Purple Scar
• Hell on Friday: The Johnny Saxon Trilogy
• The Complete Adventures of Senorita Scorpion, Volume 1
• The Black Bat Omnibus, Volume 1

Also, we’ve been asked about specific titles and when they’ll be available. We’d like to have all of our titles available as e-books. Some may have legal issues which would prevent us from doing so. I can’t think of any examples at present, but the possibility exists. But a bigger concern is related to just how the interior of some of our books are laid out. Image-heavy layouts will have to be stripped of those images. In the case of interior spot illustrations, this isn’t a big deal. But if the text relies on the images, this would pose an issue.

However, the biggest concern are tables. Two of our more recent titles, Writings in Bronze and The Black Bat Companion, contain complicated tabular data that wouldn’t survive in e-book form. It’s almost a certainty these would have to be omitted from the e-books. While this isn’t a big deal in some cases, it will be in the case of The Black Bat Companion: it contains a 60 page-long table of Norman Daniels’ pay records, and 100 pages of comic book stories. Removing these would really strip an otherwise robust book of a lot of its value.

So we’ll continue to strive to put out e-books at a steady pace, in between releases of all new reprint collections.

We’re converting several titles at a time to e-book format, and I’ll post here, as well as add links to the individual book pages, as they become available.

C’mon Barry, at least show some bravery and at least call out the novel as The Desert Demons, as published by me. After all, it’s quite evident you’ve got an axe to grind regarding my company and our books’ prices. I thought the complaint sounded familiar, and I realized you’d made the same gripe in a comment left on the DD’s page on Amazon.

Is this the same Barry Reese who just 24 hours ago was lamenting the “attack” by Tony Davis on New Pulp stories, only to hear you turn around today and call another New Pulp story, The Desert Demons, “inane” and a “ripoff”?

Your quote:

“The publisher’s response is that the economics of Print on Demand forces those prices. … It’s simply a case of them wanting to boost their bottom line.”

…borders on libel. Please tell me where I ever mentioned such reasoning. If anything, it’s clear you deliberately took passages out of context in order to validate your screed.

I’m temped to detail our rationale for the new Doc Savage novels’ pricing, but frankly, it’s none of your business. No one’s getting rich off these books. And when you get your books carried by major distributors, the vast majority of room for profit is gone. Mr. Reese, since I’ve never heard of you being a writer before, and I had to look up your books, I can safely say you have little experience with such elements of the publishing world, regardless of your claim of being “around POD publishers for years.”

Your boasts that “no paperback is worth” $24.95, and that “the market will correct itself as publishers discover the limits for what the public will pay” only show your naivety even more. We brought scores of copies of the new Doc books to PulpFest and had them all sold in less than a day. If you put out a quality product, featuring a beloved character, people will buy it. The $40 hardcover you bemoaned has sold better than the paperback edition. You’re backwardly right: indeed, the market has spoken.

Perhaps you should listen to the fans a bit more. People wanted a deluxe keepsake edition, a cheaper hardcopy alternative, and a super-cheap e-book. We created all three types (the e-book is coming this month) to meet every price point. No other publisher is doing more to reach more readers. We were happy to do it and we’re grateful to every one who bought a copy. Based on our offerings, it seems that Altus Press is in reality the publisher whose “primary concern is maximizing readership,” to quote you. And I look forward to your eventual rant that our $4.99 e-book is too expensive for your tastes.

It’s too bad you have little foresight, Barry, which is surprising, given your claimed years of experience in publishing. Doc Savage is the most well-known property of all the New Pulp properties. It’s getting a lot of exposure. Just this week it had a 1/4-page color spotlight feature in Previews. It stands to reason that pushing these new Doc Savage novels to achieve success would only help all the other New Pulp authors. A rising tide lifts all boats. Yet you’ve felt it was more important to rant about the pricing based on uninformed conclusions.

I wish to thank Bobby and Mike for a fair, even-handed debate on the logistics that go into a book’s price.

Barry, I look forward to reading more of your sales and marketing expertise on the world of publishing.

Matt Moring
Altus Press

While Riding the Pulp Trail reached #19,379:

Congrats to Will Murray and Laurie Powers for this achievement! I’ve rarely seen any pulp-related book under 100,000, so this is a very impressive showing. And thanks to all of your for your support!

Also, we’ve gone through our book prices from Lulu, and streamlined them all. They’re all now the same price as Amazon’s paperbacks, and $10 more for hardcovers. What does this mean for you? It means that many hardcover prices have been slashed drastically, some by $15. So check out a hardcover if you’re interested.

Lastly, this summer will see the release of our first e-books. We’re going back and reformatting nearly all of our old titles in order to prepare them for e-books. Look for them to begin trickling out this summer in two formats: the complete text of our book for a few bucks, and each story individually, most likely for 99 cents. You can’t beat that price!

Written by prolific pulp writer Will Murray, who has won acclaim for his unequalled ten-year tenure ghostwriting Warren Murphy and Richard Sapir’s Destroyer action-adventure series, The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage is a continuation of the well-received Doc novels Murray wrote for Bantam Books back in the 1990s, along with the late Lester Dent. The posthumous collaborations will be published under time-honored byline, Kenneth Robeson.

“These new novels are kicked-up, over-the-top exploits of the Man of Bronze, pitting him against forces and foes never before encountered,” promises Murray. “This is not some comic book scripter’s concept of Doc Savage. It’s the real deal.”

Fully authorized by Condé Nast, trademark holder of Doc Savage and based upon unpublished outlines and manuscripts originally written by Lester Dent, the originating writer of the seminal Street & Smith superman, and licensed from the Heirs of Norma Dent, The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage begins with a searing story set in the summer of 1936, The Desert Demons!

“I’ve always had an uncanny knack of writing novels that are more topical when published than when I wrote them,” Murray revealed. “Witness Nick Fury; Agent of S.H.I.E.L.D: Empyre. Published in 2000, it reads like a blueprint for the September 11, 2001 terror attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., right down to the use of passenger aircraft piloted by terrorists to decimate U.S. cities.

“In The Desert Demons, a rash of unexplainable tornado-like outbreaks wreak havoc in California, calling Doc Savage and his men into action. And what action! Men and machinery are swallowed up by the scarlet cyclones, never to be seen again. Some chapters read like news reports of the Spring of 2011. Let’s hope we have a happy ending in real life! The entire Doc Savage cast is back for this reintroductory episode, including fan-favorite Patricia Savage.”

Murray also reunites with his other Doc Savage collaborator, award-winning artist and sculptor Joe DeVito, who will paint the covers from never-seen photographs of model Steve Holland, who posed for the best-selling James Bama covers as the living embodiment of the Man of Bronze. These vintage photos were donated to the project by Mr. Bama.

DeVito notes, “Working with Doc Savage again might best be described as revisiting old friends: both figuratively and literally. Collaborating with Will Murray, working from classic photos of the late Steve Holland provided by Jim Bama to illustrate the first super hero of them all… I guess I can also describe it as FUN!”

The Desert Demons will be released in July, followed by a second wild exploit, Horror In Gold, by late summer. Seven new novels are planned. Murray promises the familiar characters in their rightful time period, but with a definite edge to them.

“Since I wrote my last Bantam Books Doc,” Murray commented, “a lot of writers have taken a swing at the bronze man, and struck out. It was painful to watch. So Lester Dent and I have come out of semi-retirement to show everyone how Doc Savage is done. With the recent release of Python Isle, the first of my original seven Doc novels to be released as audiobooks by Radioarchives.com, I’m proclaiming this the Summer of Doc Savage. Doc is back. For real this time.”

The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage will be released in a variety of formats:

—6”x9” trade paperbacks which will be available to bookstores and comic shops everywhere, as well as to individual purchasers through the official Wild Adventures of Doc Savage website, www.adventuresinbronze.com.

—6”x9”deluxe hardcovers which will contain an illustrated Afterword detailing the background creation of each novel, as well as bonus articles and biographies by Will Murray and others—available in this edition only. These will also include signed bookplates autographed by Will Murray, artist Joe DeVito, and “Lester Dent” (in facsimile).

—e-book formats available for all the most popular e-readers: Amazon Kindle, Sony Reader, Barnes & Noble Nook, and Apple’s iBookstore (for the iPad and iPhone).

Website: www.adventuresinbronze.com
Facebook Page: The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage

…well, except for: thanks for your continued support!

Matt

As you may know, we’ll soon be publishing a collection of Paul S. Powers westerns… it’s about a 50/50 mix of reprints and all-new, unpublished stories. Now we need your help!

Paul’s granddaughter Laurie is currently running a contest to name this book; get all the details here: The New Paul Powers Book Title Contest. But you’d better hurry: it ends February 25th!

We’ll be complimenting the look of Laurie’s book Pulp Writer (seen at right), so if I could offer a bit of advice in coming up with a book title: it has to fit in the same real estate as “Pulp Writer” does on its cover, as we’ll be using the same typeface. So please have mercy on me, the cover designer!

Good luck!

Barbara Custer and Tom Johnson team up to explore the possibilities of intergalactic adventure. The action and suspense in these stories will keep you turning the pages. Does intelligent life exist on other worlds? Some people believe that God didn’t create the vast universe just for humans. Are they gentle friendly beings, or are they monsters that prey on weaker species?
Custer explores heroic aliens bent on rescuing the human race, and evil aliens intending to destroy it. Humans will be in the crossfire! Brothers will also be at odds in their desire to save or destroy mankind.

Johnson gives us two views of the galactic frontier, with his Captain Danger, a superman of the future who keeps law and order among the spaceways, and a master thief, who operates as a future Robin Hood of the star systems.

Together, Custer & Johnson present their fantastic tales of SF in the first of several anthologies from NTD.
Now Available From NTD www.bloodredshadow.com/ Will be available on Amazon and Kindle, and other Major Outlets soon.

First, a brand-new Powers story, “An Embrace at Bell Chapel” posted at Laurie’s Wild West today! Check it out.

Secondly, Laurie has announced a new contest. Here are the details:

1. Every Monday for four weeks, starting November 1, 2010, a CLUE will be posted HERE (shown below) at pulpwriter.com. You need to figure out what the prize is based on that clue. The PRIZE is located somewhere at the OutWest Western Boutique and Cultural Center Web site Online Store – it’s up to you to find it!
2. Take the clue and go to the OutWest online store (http://www.outwestmktg.com) and find the prize based on the clue. (Don’t worry, the clue will be very easy and we won’t make you search every single page of the OutWest store – we’ll give you a hint as to what pages to go to.)
3. When you find the correct prize, there will be a notice posted on that page that says, “Congratulations! You have found the prize for the Pulp Writer contest.”
4. You will need to then EMAIL me at Powerspulpwriter@gmail.com with the name of the prize AND the item number from the OutWest online store. PLEASE LIST YOUR FIRST AND LAST NAME, EMAIL ADDRESS, AND SHIPPING ADDRESS (P.O. BOX is ok).
5. You will have until Friday of that week, at 5 PM Pacific, to submit your answer.
6. On the next day, Saturday, I will take the names of ALL of those who submitted the correct answer to Powerspulpwriter@gmail.com and pick a name at random. That person wins the Prize.
7. I will notify that person by email AND their name will be posted on the OutWest Web site as well as the PulpWriter.com site. Please note that your name will be posted on these Web sites and may also be posted on our Facebook pages and blogs.

GOT IT? Any questions should be sent to Powerspulpwriter@gmail.com

HERE IS THE CLUE FOR WEEK ONE OF THE PULP WRITER / OUT WEST CONTEST

This cowboy hero had his own radio show and rode a horse named Silver. He also had his own pulp fiction magazine.

Location: This prize is listed on one of the OutWest DVD pages.

You have until Friday, November 5, 2010 at 5 PM Pacific to submit your entry.

Remember! I need:

The name of the prize

The Catalog # as shown on the prize’s page

Your FIRST and LAST name and your shipping address (P.O. Box is OK).

GOOD LUCK!

Thirty years later, the young man now runs his own mob, coming under the scrutiny of the city’s paladin, a mysterious crime fighter called The Black Ghost. In a deadly gun battle between the hero and gangsters, the mob is wiped out, the mob leader killed during the fight. Seeking revenge, the child, now thirty years old, gathers a new gang to go up against the Black Ghost. Trained in the martial arts from childhood, the new mob leader dons the regalia of a ninja and begins robbing banks and killing citizens randomly, hoping to bring the nemesis to them.

With the city streets running red in blood, The Black Ghost and his aides mount a campaign to stop the ninja’s mob. The action is furious, and sometimes quite violent as the Black Ghost matches guns with the gangsters. In a final encounter between The Black Ghost and the ninja, a martial arts battle between the foes ends with only one victor!

I didn’t know where I wanted to take the character when I first wrote “The Black Widows,” back in 1995. I wanted Jimmy Malone to be something of a Shadow, thus the name, Compere, which means a “shadow” or an “equal.” But it was soon understood that others wanted to call him something else. The younger kids called him The Masked Avenger, who was a comic book hero they were reading, while the underworld was determined to call him The Black Ghost. Eventually, the Black Ghost stuck.

The stories had an odd beginning. In February 1995, Clancy O’Hara published a small press magazine titled, PULP FICTION MAGAZINE, (dated Winter 1995), a Ramrod Publications, out of Hermosa Beach, California. Such stalwart writers as R.T. Lawton, Rick Brooks, and Aaron B. Larson were contributors. Clancy and Quentin Tarantino were friends, so I’ve often wondered if Clancy’s magazine influenced Tarantino in his future movie, PULP FICTION. In early summer 1995, with Issue #3, my first story appeared, titled “Behind The Mask”, featuring Compere. The second story, “What’s In A Name?” was published in Issue #6, Winter 1995. I wrote two more stories for PULP FICTION MAGAZINE, “Creatures of Habit” and “Friendships Declared”, all featuring Compere. Unfortunately, if the last two stories appeared, I have either misplaced my copies, or never received them. Clancy mentioned on a Blog that he published the magazine for three years. However, I only have the first seven issues in my collection. Issue #7 is dated Spring 1996, which covers the first two years.

Clancy’s little magazine did spark a fire under me, though, and I decided to start my own pulp fiction magazine, CLASSIC PULP FICTION STORIES, in June 1995. With Issue #18, dated November 1996, I gathered the four Compere stories into a novelette, and published it as “Black Ghost” (aka “The Black Widows”). I had no further plans for the character at that point.

I don’t know who suggested the idea, probably Debra Delorme, but before I knew it, we were collaborating with a story titled, “Hunter’s Moon” for Double Danger Tales. This novelette would feature her Scarecrow and my Black Ghost. It was a whopper of a tale, and appeared in DDT #20, September 1998, and Jimmy Malone meets his future wife in the adventure. After that, my interest in the character was renewed, and I wrote three more tales of the Black Ghost for our magazines: “Calling The Black Ghost”, DDT #44, May 2001, “The Black Ghost At Bay”, DDT #47, October 2001, and “Dark Night of The Black Ghost”, DDT #54, September 2002

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A short time after our magazines folded, I sold “Town of Fear,” a new story featuring The Black Ghost to Filament Book Club. In the meantime, “Hunter’s Moon” was reprinted in “Masks & Mayhem, Volume One”, in 2005, then a brand new story, “Death And The Black Ghost” was published in “Masks & Mayhem, Volume Three”, in 2006. In 2008, I gathered all of the Black Ghost stories, except for “Hunter’s Moon” and “The Black Widows”, and wrote two brand new stories for a collection that NTD published as “Guns of The Black Ghost”.

In 2009, I decided I wasn’t through with The Black Ghost yet, and wrote “The Spider’s Web”. This time, I wanted to include the forgotten first story, “The Black Widows”, which now makes all of the tales available. At the present time, Debbie DeLorme and I are contemplating a brand new novel featuring our heroes, Scarecrow and Black Ghost. Hopefully, this will be available some time in 2011. Following is a listing of the stories, and where they can be purchased:

1)    “The Black Widows” (see “The Spider’s Web”)

2)    “Hunter’s Moon” (“Masks & Mayhem, Volume One”) http://www,altuspress.com/

3)    “Calling The Black Ghost” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

4)    “The Black Ghost At Bay” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

5)    “Dark Night of The Black Ghost” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

6)    “Town of Fear” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

7)    “Death And The Black Ghost” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

8)    “Highways In Hiding” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

9)    “Bullets of Terror” (“Guns of The Black Ghost”) www.amazon.com/

10) “The Spider’s Web” (A sequel to “Highways In Hiding”, plus contains “The Black Widows”) www.amazon.com/

All of the NTD books are available as electronic downloads from Filament Book Club. www.filamentbookclub.com/

To the right, I’ve posted a thumbnail of a recent ad I did for the new Airship 27 book, The Green Lama – Unbound. We reckon, if someone’s interested in new Green Lama stories, certainly they’d be interested in the original stories. So here’s a sneak peak of the cover to Volume 1… or at least part of it. Enjoy!

During the 1930s and 1940s, Paul Powers (1905-1971) was a prolific and successful pulp fiction writer, writing over 400 stories for such pulp fiction magazines as Wild West Weekly, Weird Tales, Thrilling Western, Texas Rangers, and more. Later Paul wrote an acclaimed full-length Western novel, Doc Dillahay. Paul is also the author of Pulp Writer: Twenty Years in the American Grub Street, his memoir of his career as a prolific and successful pulp fiction writer during the 1930s and 1940s. Thanks to the promotions of his granddaughter Laurie Powers, Paul Powers’ work has achieved new-found appreciation in recent years.

Two of these new books will be collections of short stories discovered in 2009. These stories were written between 1945 and 1955 but were never published. Many are westerns, but there are also noir, thriller, animal, horror, and love stories. Together they show Powers’ remarkable versatility: He was an expert at writing westerns, but he loved writing other genres as well. Current publishing plans call for this material to be split into two collections: there will be at least one collection of western stories and one for the stories of other genres.

In addition to these never-before published stories, there will also be a third collection containing Powers’ westerns that appeared in such magazines as Thrilling Western, Range Riders Western, The Rio Kid Western, and other magazines from the 1940s and 1950s.

These stories will be published in traditional book form (both hard and softcover) as well as e-book form. Publication is expected to begin Winter 2009/10.

Altus Press is a premier pulp fiction publisher and has published authors such as Lester Dent, Johnston McCulley, Henry Kuttner, Norvell Page, Frederick C. Davis, Richard Sale, Tom Johnson, Will Murray and many more. In 2009, founder Matthew Moring won the Echoes Award for work benefiting the pulp community and has also won an American Graphic Design Award for book design.

http://www.pulpwriter.com
http://lauriepowerswildwest.blogspot.com
http://www.altuspress.com

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P.S: enjoy the soon-to-be announced title to the right!

We’ve released a lot of great titles over the past for years, and in order to get them out in a timely manner I’ve had the good fortune to work with a lot of great proofreaders, most recently Ray Riethmeier and Ric Croxton. However, I’ll soon have a glut of completed titles that just need proofreading done on them, and I’m currently looking for other proofreaders who’d like to proof some of them.

I can’t pay for proofreading, but I can give you a free copy of the finished work, as well as a thank you in print. If you’re interested in proofreading, drop me a line using the form on the Contact Us tab.

All right, I’m back to work!

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Are there any pulp/quasi-pulp collections that aren’t being done by other publishers that you’d like to see? If so, drop us a line at the “Contact Us” link above & tell us what you think. We’ve very interested in hearing from you.

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Just wanted to let you all know that two new titles are ready & available for purchase in both hard- and softcover. You can now order The Casebook of Seekay and Other Prototypes of The Avenger as well as The Hand of Red Finger from this site.

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Several people recommended the writings of Dan (Stay Away, Joe) Cushman to me. Before becoming a successful paperback author in the 50s, Cushman wrote many stories for the pulps. Among them were the adventures of hook-armed Armless O’Neil. Set in Africa, these are well-written hard-boiled adventure stories that seem fresh in 2010. Volume 1, entitled Seekers of the Glittering Fetish: The Complete Armless O’Neil Volume 1, contains his first six stories from the pages of Action Stories and Jungle Stories. It should be going to a proofreader in a couple of weeks and I would expect it to be available well in time for the Windy City show. A second volume is already in the works, which would compile the last six stories. I’d expect this to be out by year’s end.

Another title, unannounced until now, is another volume in our Companion series. The Black Bat Companion will be in a similar format as last year’s The Phantom Detective Companion. Though it won’t be as long as the PD book, it should clock in at around 350 pages… not bad for a character with 1/3 of the adventures of The Phantom!

This will include material not only by primary author Tom Johnson, but also Will Murray and Al Tonik, among others. About 70 pages of The Black Bat’s 1940s comic stories will also be included, as well as a lengthy investigation of the German Black Bat. But the highlight of this may be the news that “The Celebrity Murders,” the last Black Bat story written by Norman Daniels & thought lost, has been discovered. We’ll tell you more in this book.

The Black Bat Companion is still being assembled. It is hoped that it will be available in time for PulpFest.

Much closer to availability is The Black Bat Omnibus Volume 1. This is the first volume of the complete reprinting of the series, this one containing the first three stories. It’s tough to guess at how many volumes this will take to complete, since the word counts fluctuated so much. While these early ones are about 40k words each, later ones are 15-20k. The Black Bat Omnibus Volume 1 is being proofread now and should be available for Windy City.

We’re also working on The Complete Adventures of Sangroo by J. Irving Crump. Sangroo is a Tarzan-like fella that only appeared twice in the pages of the ultra-rare Clayton title, Jungle Stories. I’d look for this in around PulpFest.

No doubt you noticed the book cover at the top of the page. Over a year in the making, The Weird Adventures of The Blond Adder: The Complete Casebook of Lee Nace by Lester Dent should be quite a tome. For those who don’t know Nace, it was a series Dent wrote for Ten Detective Aces in 1933, and it’s quite interesting to read the adventures of another gadget detective of Dent’s which were written during the first year of Doc Savage. Only two of these stories have been reprinted before. But what makes this special is that we’ve used the original Dent manuscripts as the source for four of the five stories (sadly, one’s manuscript doesn’t survive), and for one of the four, we’ve utilized sections of TWO drafts. It’s augmented with Dent’s original Nace character Bible, and scans of part of an early draft of one of the stories… which contain Dent’s hand-written corrections.

This is to be proofread soon, and will certainly be out well in time for Windy City. If not, much sooner.

A pair of Popular Publications books are nearly done being proofread, and will be available soon. The Hand of Red Finger collects all 12 of the Red Finger backups from the pages of Operator #5. Written by Arthur Leo Zagat, it’s a unique series written in a unique way. It’s one of Tom Johnson’s favorite series, and Tom’s included a newly-written Red Finger story to round out the collection.

The Casebook of Seekay and Other Prototypes of The Avenger is also nearly ready. Clocking in at over 300 pages and written by Paul Ernst, it collects all the known Avenger prototypes written for Popular’s mystery and crime pulps. In fact, several in the collection were only discovered while assembling this volume. It’s sure to be a page turner.

Tom Johnson’s Triple Detective is also back. Issue #4 should be available in 1-2 weeks and it’s our biggest one yet, clocking in at almost 180 pages with no price increase. A highlight of this collection is the first all-new adventure of The Eagle, Thrilling’s now-forgotten detective.

Tom’s also got another collection of pulp prose nearly available. Called The Pulp Detectives, this includes nine of Tom’s stories (featuring characters such as The Black Bat and The Phantom Detective) wrapped in a vintage cover. Look for it in a few weeks.

Another interesting title is by Chandler Whipple. Published in Dime Mystery magazine, The Curse of the Harcourts is a 6-episode story which is prime for a revival. You’ll have to read it to see what I mean. It’s going to be tough to write a back-cover blurb for this one! I’ll be out around PulpFest.

Nearly ready are three volumes in our Lost Race Library: Under the Andes by Rex Stout, Wings of Danger by Arthur A. Nelson and Yellow Men Sleep by Jeremy Lane. All come from 1910s pulps and are quite enjoyable. If you’re a fan of the lost race genre, these are for you. These will be out in a few weeks.

Finally, be on the lookout for Volume 4 in our Secret Agent “X” series. Containing four more stories and with a new introduction by Will Murray, it’s going to be a nice book.

Whew! I’m beat. But not to worry, there are plenty more collections coming. I need an intern…