Altus Press http://www.altuspress.com The Leader in Classic Pulp Reprints Mon, 17 Jun 2013 12:09:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 Press Release: Wordslingers: An Epitaph for the Western to Premiere at Pulpfest http://www.altuspress.com/2013/06/press-release-wordslingers-an-epitaph-for-the-western-to-premiere-at-pulpfest/ http://www.altuspress.com/2013/06/press-release-wordslingers-an-epitaph-for-the-western-to-premiere-at-pulpfest/#comments Thu, 06 Jun 2013 12:09:12 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3660 WORDSLINGERS
AN EPITAPH FOR THE WESTERN

“Wordslingers is a must-read for anyone interested in the pulps or in Western fiction, and it’s one of the best books I’ve read in a long, long time.”
—James Reasoner

Countless books have been written on the Western fiction genre. Almost all trace the development of the genre from its dime-novel roots through Owen Wister’s The Virginian and Zane Grey—the two most influential early frontier novelists—to the present. Many others focus on the Hollywood Western.

Almost completely overlooked is the Western pulp magazine. From about 1920 to 1955, almost every important writer and development in the genre took place in the pages of Western Story Magazine, Dime Western, Cowboy Stories, Wild West Weekly, and scores of others.

Wordslingers is an oral history of the Western pulp fiction magazines, told in the narrative style of a Ken Burns documentary by the writers, editors and agents who fought and struggled to keep the Western myth alive in the face of changing tastes, cultural shifts, Hollywood competition, and a boom-and- bust genre cycle that forced them to reformulate the Western story every five years or so.

Westerns boomed in the early 20s, but the genre virtually collapsed in 1927 when Lindbergh’s transatlantic flight catapulted the airman hero into prominence. Many editors pronounced the Western doomed as a genre. A Hollywood Western revival brought
the cowboy hero back to life—until the Depression drove all but the most hardy Western magazines out of business. The cowboy hero rode high, wide and handsome until 1940, when the reading public simply got sick of him. Editors and writers desperately searched for a different kind of Western hero to take his place. They found scores of them in the ordinary blacksmith, frontier doctor and rancher, and the genre was once again redeemed. And so it went until television and the paperback absconded with the Western genre in the 1950s, killing the pulp magazine industry forever.

In the middle of this movement is the unending feud between the realists, cowboy-authors like Arizonan Walt Coburn, who were of the West and burned to write authentic historical fiction, and the fabulists, Eastern writers like Frederick Faust (Max Brand) who lived in an Italian villa and couldn’t care less about authenticity, both schools perpetuating a Western never-never land its prolific practitioners often didn’t believe in themselves.

Then there are the pulp magazine editors. Men like overworked and darkly humorous Frank Blackwell, who edited the pioneer Western Story Magazine, which for its first twenty years was published every week! Action proponent Jack Byrne, who pronounced the Western story dead in 1927—only the eat his words. And visionary genius Rogers Terrill, who single-handedly salvaged the pulp Western from oblivion during the Depression when he launched the revolutionary and cliché-shattering Dime Western. Easterners all, torn by the constant struggle to keep Western fans happy, while simultaneously wrangling writers who had to be retrained every few years as reading tastes changed—all trapped by a romantic myth they helped create and didn’t dare shatter lest the Western go completely bust.

Although author Will Murray traces the genre’s development from its historical origins, through Owen Wister’s landmark works to the early Paperback Revolution, Wordslingers focuses almost entirely on the pulp magazines because no previous study has examined this area in depth. The quotes he’s mined from period writer’s magazines and other obscure sources—people ranging from Walt Coburn to Louis L’Amour—make for fascinating reading and a dramatic immediacy.

Wordslingers explains how this slice of Americana stayed so popular for so long, and why it has declined so steeply without completely fading away. And why the Western may or may not come back.

No one has ever written a book like this, nor investigated the sources used to compile it. Will Murray is the first writer to seriously document this era.

“But this is not really my book,” Murray notes. “It belongs to the many authentic voices who drive the narrative—funny, salty, iconoclastic, inspiring voices who, in telling their personal stories, illuminate a larger one.”

Murray’s more nearly forty years researching and writing about the pulp magazine era gives him a unique background to write this book from a deep knowledge of the field. Photos of prominent authors will put faces to the voices who tell the tale of their times. Wordslingers is a landmark on the history of popular literature. It may be a Pulp masterpiece.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2013/06/press-release-wordslingers-an-epitaph-for-the-western-to-premiere-at-pulpfest/feed/ 0 Press Release: Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life Returns to Print http://www.altuspress.com/2013/04/press-release-doc-savage-his-apocalyptic-life-returns-to-print/ http://www.altuspress.com/2013/04/press-release-doc-savage-his-apocalyptic-life-returns-to-print/#comments Fri, 26 Apr 2013 11:13:16 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3565 Philip José Farmer’s classic returns to print in softcover, deluxe hardcover, and e-book formats this Summer.

Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life

April 25, 2013, BOSTON, MA—Altus Press and Meteor House Press are honored to announce they have come to terms with the Estate of Philip José Farmer to bring Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life back to print for the first time in 30 years.

Originally published in 1973, Philip José Farmer’s biography of The Man of Bronze was a trendsetter, and its influence is still felt to this day. This ultimate edition includes an all-new foreword by Farmer scholar Win Scott Eckert, along with rare images—many never before seen—as well as an exhaustive index for easy reference.

The deluxe, signed hardcover—which will be sold via Meteor House Press—features additional essays by Farmer and pulp experts such as John Allen Small, Keith Howell, Rick Lai, Art Sippo, Christopher Paul Carey, and current Doc Savage writer Will Murray.

Altus Press will offer standard trade edition of the book, as well as e-books available in all the popular formats. These editions will be available soon after the release of the deluxe, signed hardcover edition.

All editions of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life will feature an all-new cover by Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series painter Joe DeVito.

For more information about the forthcoming release of Doc Savage: His Apocalyptic Life, please visit http://www.altuspress.com and http://meteorhousepress.com.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2013/04/press-release-doc-savage-his-apocalyptic-life-returns-to-print/feed/ 3 Press Release: Doc Savage and King Kong Coming in March http://www.altuspress.com/2013/01/press-release-doc-savage-and-king-kong-coming-in-march/ http://www.altuspress.com/2013/01/press-release-doc-savage-and-king-kong-coming-in-march/#comments Tue, 29 Jan 2013 18:12:55 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3435 January 28, 2012—Eighty years ago in February, 1933 the Street & Smith company released the first issue of Doc Savage Magazine, introducing one of the most popular and influential pulp superheroes ever to hit the American scene. Doc Savage was the greatest adventure and scientist of his era, and while his magazine ended in 1949, he influenced the creators of Superman, Batman, Star Trek, The Man from UNCLE and the Marvel Universe—to name only a few.

While that first issue of Doc Savage was fresh on Depression newsstands, RKO released one of the most important fantasy films of all time. Everyone knows the story of how King Kong was discovered on Skull Island and hauled back to New York in chains, only to perish tragically atop the world’s tallest skyscraper, the Empire State Building.

As it happened, that was where Doc Savage had his world headquarters. For decades, fans have wondered: Where was Doc the day Kong fell?

On the eightieth anniversary of these fictional giants, Altus Press is proud to release the first authorized clash between The Man of Bronze and the Eighth Wonder of the World—Doc Savage: Skull Island. Written by Will Murray in collaboration with Joe DeVito, creator of KONG: King of Skull Island, Doc Savage: Skull Island is a new pulp epic.

The story opens when Doc returns from his Fortress of Solitude in the North Pole to discover the cold corpse of Kong lying on his doorstep.

“I know this creature,” he tells his dumbfounded men.

Tasked to dispose of the remains, the Man of Bronze then tells the untold story of his epic encounter with Kong back in 1920, after Doc returns from service in World War I, long before Kong became King Kong.

Doc Savage: Skull Island is a multi-generational story in which Doc and his father—the man who placed him in the hands of scientists who made him into a superman—sail to the Indian Ocean in search of Doc’s grandfather, the legendary Stormalong Savage, whose famous ship has been discovered floating, deserted, her masts snapped by some incredible force.

The quest for Stormalong Savage leads to the fog-shrouded Indian Ocean—and Skull Island! There, Doc Savage faces his first great test as he encounters its prehistoric dangers and tangles with the towering, unstoppable Kong.

“When Joe DeVito brought this idea to me,” says Will Murray, “I knew it had to be written with reverence for both of these immortal characters. So I used the locale of Skull Island to tell a larger story, an untold origin for Doc Savage. It all started back on Skull Island….”

Doc Savage: Skull Island has already been hailed as “The Doc Savage novel that Doc fans have been waiting on for 80 years!”

Doc Savage: Skull Island is will be released in March, as the fifth entry in Altus Press’ popular Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series. Cover by Joe DeVito.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2013/01/press-release-doc-savage-and-king-kong-coming-in-march/feed/ 4 Another Wave of Ebooks Available http://www.altuspress.com/2012/11/another-wave-of-ebooks-available/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/11/another-wave-of-ebooks-available/#comments Thu, 15 Nov 2012 11:57:46 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3211 We’ve just finished converting another batch of our older titles into ebooks. And more are on their way!

A Man Named Jones
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Weird Adventures of the Blond Adder
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Revised Complete Chronology of Bronze
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Crimson Mask Omnibus Volume 1
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Curse of the Harcourts
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

G Stands for Glory: The G-Man Stories of Norvell Page
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

Super-Detective Jim Anthony: The Complete Series Volume 1
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Complete Adventures of the Jungle Queen
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

Polaris of the Snows: The Complete Trilogy
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

Pulpmaster: The Theodore Roscoe Story
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Crimes of the Scarlet Ace: The Complete Stories of Major Lacy & Amusement, Inc.
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

The Secret 6: The Complete Adventures
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Apple’s iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

The Secret 6 Classics: League of the Grateful Dead
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/11/another-wave-of-ebooks-available/feed/ 0 Two More Doc Savage Ebooks Available http://www.altuspress.com/2012/10/two-more-doc-savage-ebooks-available/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/10/two-more-doc-savage-ebooks-available/#comments Fri, 26 Oct 2012 10:25:07 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3184 We’re happy to announce that our two latest Doc Savage releases, Death’s Dark Domain and The Forgotten Realm, are now available as e-books:

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/10/two-more-doc-savage-ebooks-available/feed/ 0 Altus Press Announces Publishing Agreement with the Estate of James B. Hendryx http://www.altuspress.com/2012/09/altus-press-announces-publishing-agreement-with-the-estate-of-james-b-hendryx/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/09/altus-press-announces-publishing-agreement-with-the-estate-of-james-b-hendryx/#comments Sun, 23 Sep 2012 18:54:31 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3098 Plans For Collections of Stories Never Before in Book Form

September 20, 2012, BOSTON, MA—Altus Press today announced a publishing agreement with the Estate of James B. Hendryx to reprint the complete set of his long-running series featuring the characters of Halfaday Creek.

“It’s quite an honor to be able to present the stories of Black John Smith and Halfaday Creek to an all-new audience,” Altus Press publisher Matt Moring stated. “For such a popular series, I’m excited by the chance to present these stories with the respect they justly deserve.”

James B. Hendryx (1880-1963) was the author of more than 50 novels and anthologies, and wrote hundreds of stories. And Hendryx wrote what he knew, spending time in Alaska, Canada, and the Wyoming badlands. But he’s best known for his characters set around the outlaw community of Halfaday Creek in the Yukon. Set during the Gold Rush of the late 1890s, Hendryx penned over a hundred stories featuring these characters over the span of 25 years for magazines such as West, Dime Western, New Western, Argosy, and the primary home for the Halfaday Creek series, Short Stories.

Many of the Halfaday Creek stories were edited and reprinted in a series of 13 hardcover books which were released between 1935 and 1951. However, some of these books are quite scarce and difficult to find on the antiquarian book market.

Thanks to the research of Hendryx fans such as Richard Hall, the original sources that comprise these 13 Halfaday Creek hardcovers have been identified, will be reprinted along with the illustrations from their original pulp magazine appearances, and will be augmented with rare material taken from the James B. Hendryx archives currently held by the Leelanau Historical Society in Leland, MI.

In addition to these reprints, enough uncollected stories have been identified to comprise four additional, “new” Halfaday Creek collections. These too will contain material from the Hendryx archives and will match the dress and design of the other Halfaday Creek reprints.

The first wave of releases will include reprints of two older Halfaday Creek titles, Skullduggery on Halfaday Creek (1946) and The Saga of Halfaday Creek (1947), along with the first of the “new” collections, entitled Adventures on Halfaday Creek. A similar release schedule will continue until all of the Halfaday Creek books have returned to print. This first wave will see publication in early 2013.

The Halfaday Creek Library will be be available in softcover, hardcover, and in the various popular e-book formats.

For more information about James B. Hendryx, the Halfaday Creek series, or Altus Press, please visit http://www.jamesbhendryx.com, http://www.halfadaycreek.com, and http://www.altuspress.com.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/09/altus-press-announces-publishing-agreement-with-the-estate-of-james-b-hendryx/feed/ 4 The Complete Cases of the Crime Magnet… now available as an e-book http://www.altuspress.com/2012/08/the-complete-cases-of-the-crime-magnet-now-available-as-an-e-book/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/08/the-complete-cases-of-the-crime-magnet-now-available-as-an-e-book/#comments Mon, 27 Aug 2012 01:08:46 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3055 Our new title The Complete Cases of the Crime Magnet is now available as an e-book… check it out!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/08/the-complete-cases-of-the-crime-magnet-now-available-as-an-e-book/feed/ 0 Possible New Doc Savage Premium? http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/possible-new-doc-savage-premium/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/possible-new-doc-savage-premium/#comments Sun, 22 Jul 2012 23:09:29 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=3031 Doc Savage PremiumAnyone know what this is? I found it being used as a bookmark in one of my old Doc Savage pulps. It’s roughly business card-sized, 3.375″x1.75,” printed on thin, semi-glossy paper. It almost looks like a stamp. I thought it was cut from something else, but the trim lines are too perfect. Any ideas?

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/possible-new-doc-savage-premium/feed/ 1 PR: Altus Press Announces an Important New Sax Rohmer Collection http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/pr-altus-press-announces-an-important-new-sax-rohmer-collection/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/pr-altus-press-announces-an-important-new-sax-rohmer-collection/#comments Mon, 09 Jul 2012 10:57:00 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2997 The Complete Cases of the Crime MagnetJuly 9—Altus Press is proud to announce the publication of the most important collection of Sax Rohmer’s work in decades. Eighteen months in the making, July will see the release of The Complete Cases of the Crime Magnet, fully authorized by the Rohmer estate.

Best known for his thrilling tales of Dr. Fu Manchu, author Sax Rohmer also penned the adventures of the resourceful Major Bernard de Treville, known better as “The Crime Magnet,” a roving adventurer who encounters intrigue in every corner of the globe. With his companion, Digger, he follows in the footsteps of Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson. Originally published in This Week magazine between 1937 to 1945, only a handful of these rare tales have ever been reprinted. Here, for the first time, are all fifteen short stories, plus the exciting serial, “The Panama Plot.” Accompanied by an all-new introduction by Will Murray, historian of popular literature, this is the most significant Sax Rohmer collection in decades.

Clocking in at 266 pages, it will be available in hardcover, softcover, and e-book editions. It will be available for sale around July 16.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/07/pr-altus-press-announces-an-important-new-sax-rohmer-collection/feed/ 3 Another Batch of E-Books Available http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/another-batch-of-e-books-availabl/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/another-batch-of-e-books-availabl/#comments Sun, 22 Apr 2012 22:09:54 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2796 We’ve just added another trio of titles as e-books to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the iBookstore (coming soon):

The Phantom Detective: Phantoms in Bronze:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

The Pulp Adventures of the Hooded Detective:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Ravenwood: The Complete Series:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Ki-Gor: The Complete Series Volume 1:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

As always, more are in the works.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/another-batch-of-e-books-availabl/feed/ 0 New E-book Titles Added http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/new-ebook-titles-added/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/new-ebook-titles-added/#comments Sat, 14 Apr 2012 12:11:27 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2759 Though we continue to work on new material, we’re also converting our back titles into ebooks. Just this week, we’ve added the following to Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and the iBookstore (coming soon):

Alias Mr. Death: The Complete Series:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

The Bat Strikes Again and Again!:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Diamondstone: Magician-Sleuth:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Doctor Death Vs. The Secret Twelve, Volume 2:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Doctor Death: The Complete Doctor Death in All-Detective:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

Gangland’s Doom: The Shadow of the Pulps:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

King of Fang & Claw: The Complete Pulp Magazine Adventures:
Barnes & Noble (for the Nook reader): $4.99
Amazon (for the Kindle reader): $4.99
iBookstore (for the iPad, iPhone and iPhone Touch): $4.99

We’ve got many more on the way, so keep watching!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/new-ebook-titles-added/feed/ 0 An Article on Doc Savage Artist Joe DeVito http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/an-article-on-doc-savage-artist-joe-devito/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/an-article-on-doc-savage-artist-joe-devito/#comments Thu, 12 Apr 2012 16:12:53 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2754 I wanted to point out a recent article on http://www.phillyburbs.com which showcases Doc Savage cover artist Joe DeVito. You can read more and see some great pics of the Doc covers in his studio here.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/04/an-article-on-doc-savage-artist-joe-devito/feed/ 0 Riding the Pulp Trail Now Available in E-book Format http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/riding-the-pulp-trail-now-available-in-e-book-format/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/riding-the-pulp-trail-now-available-in-e-book-format/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 13:56:11 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2553 We’re continuing our quest to get e-books out for nearly all of our books. Yesterday we announced that Doc Savage: Horror in Gold made its debut in e-book form. Today we’re pleased to announce that Paul S. Powers’ Riding the Pulp Trail is now available for the Kindle, iPod/iPhone/iPad, and the Nook. Here are the links:

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/riding-the-pulp-trail-now-available-in-e-book-format/feed/ 2 Doc Savage: Horror in Gold is Available http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-available/ http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-available/#comments Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:11:50 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2549 At long last, the latest all-new Doc Savage novel by Will Murray and Lester Dent, Horror in Gold, is now available for purchase. Check out the purchasing options below:

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

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2012/01/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-available/feed/ 0 Doc Savage: Horror in Gold is Almost Here http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-almost-here/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-almost-here/#comments Tue, 06 Dec 2011 12:30:02 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2501 Doc Savage: Horror in GoldGood news: after several months of work, the second volume of our Wild Adventures of Doc Savage series is nearly here. Assuming things go right, Horror in Gold will be available for sale on www.adventuresinbronze.com late this week or early next.

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/doc-savage-horror-in-gold-is-almost-here/feed/ 4 PR: Pro Se Productions and Altus Press Team Up For Some Pulp Action http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/pr-pro-se-productions-and-altus-press-team-up-for-some-pulp-action/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/pr-pro-se-productions-and-altus-press-team-up-for-some-pulp-action/#comments Sun, 04 Dec 2011 02:37:57 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2499 Pro Se Productions, a leading Publisher in the New Pulp Movement, and Altus Press, the foremost Publisher of quality Pulp reprints and new works such as THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE, announced a partnership in November and revealed today specifics to what has become known as the PULP OBSCURA Imprint.

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/12/pr-pro-se-productions-and-altus-press-team-up-for-some-pulp-action/feed/ 1 Altus Press on the Comic Geek Speak Podcast http://www.altuspress.com/2011/11/altus-press-on-the-comic-geek-speak-podcast/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/11/altus-press-on-the-comic-geek-speak-podcast/#comments Tue, 22 Nov 2011 17:16:55 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2473 For your listening enjoyment (or pain, depending on how you look at it), Will Murray and Matt Moring made an appearance on Comic Geek Speak’s spinoff pulp podcast, CGS Presents: Comics With or Without Pulp. Check out Episode 2 on the history of Doc Savage. Thanks for inviting us on, Matt and Jamie! Listen here.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/11/altus-press-on-the-comic-geek-speak-podcast/feed/ 0 More E-books Available http://www.altuspress.com/2011/10/more-e-books-available/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/10/more-e-books-available/#comments Sun, 30 Oct 2011 17:04:36 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2459 As promised, we wanted to give you a heads-up on when we’ve added new e-books to our lineup.

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

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/10/more-e-books-available/feed/ 0 E-Books are Here! http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/e-books-are-here/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/e-books-are-here/#comments Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:49:35 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2184 At long last, we’re cranking out e-books! The first one, available now, is the .epub file for Thunder Jim Wade: The Complete Series for the Nook (Barnes & Noble). In a matter of days, Mr. Wade will be appearing in the iBookstore and as an Amazon Kindle e-book.

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/e-books-are-here/feed/ 2 A Response to “At What Price” http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/a-response-to-at-what-price/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/a-response-to-at-what-price/#comments Thu, 11 Aug 2011 03:57:04 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2173 I was recently informed of a post on newpulpfiction.com entitled Table Talk: At What Price? wherein one of the participants, Barry Reese, decided to passive-aggressively complain about the price point or our books, based mainly on conjecture and made-up quotes. I posted a response on that site, and I’ve also posted it here, as I fully expect it to be removed.

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

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/08/a-response-to-at-what-price/feed/ 11 We’ll be at Pulpfest This Weekend http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/well-be-at-pulpfest-this-weekend/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/well-be-at-pulpfest-this-weekend/#comments Thu, 28 Jul 2011 10:56:58 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2170 We’ll be at Pulpfest this weekend, along with three of our all-new books: Riding the Pulp Trail, Doc Savage: The Desert Demons, and Writings in Bronze. So stop on by our table and get all three books signed by the authors! Well, most of the writers; I don’t think Lester Dent or Paul Powers will make it to the show….

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/well-be-at-pulpfest-this-weekend/feed/ 0 Riding the Pulp Trail Gets a Plug! http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/riding-the-pulp-trail-gets-a-plug/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/riding-the-pulp-trail-gets-a-plug/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 16:12:20 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2164 Hey, check out Laurie Powers’ interview with the Santa Clara Valley Signal where she talks about one of our new books, Riding the Pulp Trail. You can read it here: Discovering grandpa’s pulp trail.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/riding-the-pulp-trail-gets-a-plug/feed/ 0 A Strong Showing for Altus Press on Amazon! http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/a-strong-showing-for-altus-press-on-amazon/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/a-strong-showing-for-altus-press-on-amazon/#comments Sun, 24 Jul 2011 03:18:18 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2153 While checking out the Amazon listings for two of our latest release, Doc Savage: The Desert Demons and Riding the Pulp Trail, I was very pleased to see how highly they were ranked on Amazon book sales charts. First, take a look at The Desert Demons, which clocked in at #9,768:

Doc Savage: The Desert Demons Amazon sales placement

While Riding the Pulp Trail reached #19,379:

Riding the Pulp Trail Amazon sales placement

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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/a-strong-showing-for-altus-press-on-amazon/feed/ 1 My Interview on the Future of Publishing http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/my-interview-on-the-future-of-publishing/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/my-interview-on-the-future-of-publishing/#comments Wed, 20 Jul 2011 02:27:36 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2144 I recently did an interview on POD publishing and it’s now live. If you’re interested, please check out Print-On-Demand and the Future of Independent Publishing. Thanks to Matthew Asprey for including me in the discussion!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/my-interview-on-the-future-of-publishing/feed/ 2 Our New Look http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/our-new-look/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/our-new-look/#comments Sat, 09 Jul 2011 21:06:52 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=2124 No doubt you’ve noticed our website’s redesign; I felt a fresh coat of paint was in order on the eve of the release of the first all-new Doc Savage novel in 20 years, The Desert Demons (coming mid-July). I believe you’ll find the new design easier to navigate, and hopefully it does a better job in showcasing our new and old titles.

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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/07/our-new-look/feed/ 3 Announcing All-New Doc Savage Novels! http://www.altuspress.com/2011/06/announcing-all-new-doc-savage-novels/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/06/announcing-all-new-doc-savage-novels/#comments Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:39:32 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1315 BOSTON, MA—JUNE 14, 2011: Altus Press is excited to announce the launch of The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage, the first in a new series of blockbuster novels starring the legendary pulp superhero in nearly 20 years.

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

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/06/announcing-all-new-doc-savage-novels/feed/ 18 Big Announcements Coming… http://www.altuspress.com/2011/05/big-announcements-coming/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/05/big-announcements-coming/#comments Thu, 26 May 2011 03:54:20 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1313 We’ve been working behind the scenes to line up a few high-profile publications. Some have taken months of negotiation, but one major franchise is nearly 100% official. Look for a huge announcement in the next few weeks. I can say no more….

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

Matt

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/05/big-announcements-coming/feed/ 4 The New Paul Powers Book Title Contest http://www.altuspress.com/2011/02/the-new-paul-powers-book-title-contest/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/02/the-new-paul-powers-book-title-contest/#comments Sun, 20 Feb 2011 05:58:02 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1270 Hey all-

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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/02/the-new-paul-powers-book-title-contest/feed/ 0 Alien Worlds V1 http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/alien-worlds-v1/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/alien-worlds-v1/#comments Mon, 31 Jan 2011 01:18:03 +0000 TomJohnson http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1255 Alien Worlds
By Barbara Custer & Tom JohnsonPrice: $16.50

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/alien-worlds-v1/feed/ 0 Exciting Pulp Tales http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/exciting-pulp-tales-2/ http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/exciting-pulp-tales-2/#comments Sat, 01 Jan 2011 22:21:05 +0000 TomJohnson http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1248 EXCITING PULP TALES by Tom Johnson: Being proofed now, and coming soon from Altus Press. This sequel to 2010’s PULP DETECTIVES contains ten exciting pulp tales with the feel of the original writers of the 1930s and ‘40s. Many of the original characters return for the first time. The Angel Detective returns in “A Devil of A Case”; The Green Ghost returns in “The Case of The Blind Soldier”; The Cobra returns in “Curse of The Viper”; The Crimson Mask returns in “The Mask of Anubis”; Gentle Jones in “Nazis Over Washington”; The Purple Scar in “The Skull Killer”; Funny Face in “The Star of Africa”; and Alias Mr. Death in “Coffins of Death”. Next is a new jungle girl adventure, featuring the Jungle Queen in “Jungle Terror”, and Ki-Gor returns in a 30,000 word story, titled “Lost Valley of Ja Far”, which was previously written as a 15,000 word story for another publication. This volume comes in just under 400 pages. If you want your pulps original, these stories will fill the bill.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2011/01/exciting-pulp-tales-2/feed/ 0 Norvell Page is Now in Hardcover http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/norvell-page-is-now-in-hardcover/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/norvell-page-is-now-in-hardcover/#comments Wed, 24 Nov 2010 17:38:25 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1227 If you were awaiting the hardcover versions of our two Norvell Page books, “G Stands for Glory: The G-Man Stories of Norvell Page” and “When the Death-Bat Flies: The Detective Stories of Norvell Page”, wait no longer. Both are now available, adorned by fantastic covers by Chris Kalb. Enjoy!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/norvell-page-is-now-in-hardcover/feed/ 0 New Paul Powers News http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/new-paul-powers-news/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/new-paul-powers-news/#comments Wed, 03 Nov 2010 11:14:59 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1193 We’ll be publishing a collection of Paul Powers Western stories early in 2011, and if you’re eagerly anticipating that, then you’ll want to know about a couple of other Paul Powers-related things.

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:

The Pulp Writer / Out West contest begins today!! Here are the rules for the Pulp Writer / Out West contest:

  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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/11/new-paul-powers-news/feed/ 0 The Spider’s Web http://www.altuspress.com/2010/10/the-spiders-web/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/10/the-spiders-web/#comments Tue, 26 Oct 2010 20:32:57 +0000 TomJohnson http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1191 In 1980, a young Chinese girl becomes involved with a young man connected to the Italian mob. When she becomes pregnant, her father allows the marriage between his daughter and young man, but secretly conspires to separate them as soon as the baby is born. Throwing a big party for his son-in-law, the Tong places his daughter on a ship for China, while the baby is left under the care of the Chinese.

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/

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/10/the-spiders-web/feed/ 1 A Sneak Peak of The Green Lama http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/a-sneak-peak-of-the-green-lama/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/a-sneak-peak-of-the-green-lama/#comments Mon, 23 Aug 2010 15:59:08 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1136 I want to post more about forthcoming titles… we’ve got tons of cool books coming down the pipeline, and I want to share them with you as they gradually get closer to release.

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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/a-sneak-peak-of-the-green-lama/feed/ 6 Altus Press announces an agreement to print new Paul Powers stories http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/altus-press-announces-an-agreement-to-print-new-paul-powers-stories/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/altus-press-announces-an-agreement-to-print-new-paul-powers-stories/#comments Fri, 20 Aug 2010 11:05:09 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1133 August 19, 2010—Altus Press, one of the most prolific pulp reprint publishers, today announced it has come to an agreement to publish a trio of books by noted pulp author Paul S. Powers.

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.

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Price: $9.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/08/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-swooning-lady-septoct-1948/feed/ 0 The Big 50 http://www.altuspress.com/2010/07/the-big-50/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/07/the-big-50/#comments Sat, 10 Jul 2010 17:01:20 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1101 I just noticed while setting up a few new titles that we currently have 50 total titles available currently available under the Altus Press banner! Thanks so much for supporting us as we’ve grown to be one of the most prolific pulp publishers in the business! We had the good fortune of working with some of the most knowledgable and supportive authors and contributors over these past 50 books. We look forward to the next 50!

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

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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!

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/06/1097/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – The Red Skull (August 1933) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-red-skull-august-1933/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-red-skull-august-1933/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 18:27:21 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1074 A coverless copy of this very early Doc Savage issue. The front cover’s been replaced by a color photocopy.

Price: $24.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-red-skull-august-1933/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – The Golden Man (April 1941) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-golden-man-april-1941/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-golden-man-april-1941/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 18:23:43 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1070 The cover’s missing a good chunk, as is the subsequent page. Otherwise, it’s a nice copy.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-golden-man-april-1941/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – Dust of Death (October 1935) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-dust-of-death-october-1935/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-dust-of-death-october-1935/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 18:17:32 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1064 This copy is missing the back cover and half of the front. But both have been completed by color photocopies.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-dust-of-death-october-1935/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – Quest of Qui (July 1935) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-quest-of-qui-july-1935/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-quest-of-qui-july-1935/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 18:09:55 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1058 Missing its front cover (which has been replaced with a color photocopy). Some loss to the spine as well.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-quest-of-qui-july-1935/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – The Dagger in the Sky (December 1939) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-dagger-in-the-sky-december-1939/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-dagger-in-the-sky-december-1939/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:52:14 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1050 The missing front cover has been replaced with a color photocopy. Otherwise, it’s a nice copy.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-dagger-in-the-sky-december-1939/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – Death in Silver (October 1934) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-death-in-silver-october-1934/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-death-in-silver-october-1934/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:47:44 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1046 A coverless copy of this pulp, but both the front and back covers have been replaced with color photocopies.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-death-in-silver-october-1934/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – Resurrection Day (November 1936) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-resurrection-day-november-1936/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-resurrection-day-november-1936/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:42:26 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1042 One of the best Doc Savage stories. Spine has tape on it, and there’s a large chip out of the front cover. Interior paper is nice.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-resurrection-day-november-1936/feed/ 0 Doc Savage pulp – The Thousand-Headed Man (July 1934) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-thousand-headed-man-july-1934/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-thousand-headed-man-july-1934/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:36:23 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1037 Another early Doc. Missing back cover (replaced with a color photocopy) and there’s plenty of wear to the font. Interior paper’s nice.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-thousand-headed-man-july-1934/feed/ 1 Doc Savage pulp – Meteor Menace (March 1934) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-meteor-menace-march-1934/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-meteor-menace-march-1934/#comments Sun, 02 May 2010 17:30:34 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1033 A worn copy of this early Doc from the second year. Missing the back cover. The interior paper is bright.

Price: $14.95

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/05/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-meteor-menace-march-1934/feed/ 0 Taking Your Suggestions! http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/taking-your-suggestions/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/taking-your-suggestions/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 17:16:29 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=1008 We strive to put out a wide variety of books here at Altus Press. But the underlying direction of our releases comes down to one thing: putting out the books we’d like to have on my own bookshelf, and that no one else has published in a thorough way. We’ve got tons of new books in the offing, but we’re always interested in hearing from you on what you want to see.

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.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/taking-your-suggestions/feed/ 42 Seekay is The Book Cave’s Book of the Month for April! http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/seekay-is-the-book-caves-book-of-the-month-for-april/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/seekay-is-the-book-caves-book-of-the-month-for-april/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:33:49 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=992 Just a heads up for everyone: The great podcast, The Book Cave, has chosen our book, The Casebook of Seekay and Other Prototypes of The Avenger, as their Book of the Month for April. That means that the hosts, Ric and Art, will be chatting with me about this tome in early May. And we may have a special guest as well (er, no, not Paul Ernst…). So please do pick up a copy and read along with us… I know I’ll be refreshing my memory as well.

]]> http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/seekay-is-the-book-caves-book-of-the-month-for-april/feed/ 1 Doc Savage pulp – The King Maker (June 1934) http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-king-maker-june-1934/ http://www.altuspress.com/2010/04/doc-savage-pulp-%e2%80%93-the-king-maker-june-1934/#comments Sat, 03 Apr 2010 23:24:52 +0000 Matthew Moring http://www.altuspress.com/?p=986 Another early Doc Savage issue. This one has heavy spine damage (as in, there’s none remaining) and there’s traces of tape on the back cover. The front cover has been replaced by a color photocopy.

Price: $14.95

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