Author: Tommy Hancock

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND BULLDOG EDITION 1/18/11

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  • February 18, 2011
ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
BULLDOG EDITION
1/18/11
SEVEN REALMS ANNOUNCES SIGNING OF AUTHOR AND NEW SCI FI THRILLER!
From Seven Realms Publishing-

Publishing is an exciting and wonderful business to be in. Not only do we have the opportunity to work with some of the biggest and brightest stars in the business, but we have the opportunity to discover rising stars as well! And that’s just exactly what Nicholas Tanguma represents for Seven Realms. He is one author that you will be hearing a lot about in the future, we guarantee it and are just absolutely excited to introduce him to you and all of Readerdom!

In the tradition of Ted Dekker and Frank Peretti, Nicholas is bringing to Seven Realms his dark and imaginatively adventurous Sci-Fi Thriller tentatively entitled “SONS OF GOD AND DAUGHTERS OF MEN“!

Here’s a synopsis of the novel:

There is a door to Hell, and it’s about to be opened.

In the not too distant future, the earth is in absolute chaos. Israel and Persia volley nukes after inflation of the Iranian economy hits one million percent. Japan of the Republic of Greater East Asia invades the Arab pipeline fields. The Mullahs of the Middle East are directing chemical jihad for their countries’ dwindling oil reserves. And the United States of North America and the fundamentalist Nation of God are in economic crises after splitting during the Second Civil War.

In the midst of it all is the enigmatic Phaelon, the world’s most secretive and murderous religious synod. But they have discovered something even more terrifying than hydrogen missiles or dirty bombs…something even more diabolical than economic espionage. They have stumbled upon their greatest enemy to date…an undying and demonically invincible woman who has found the doors to Hell itself and isn’t afraid to open them.

The synod, seeking to prevent this from happening, assigns three of their best employees to stop Hell-on-Earth: Jeremiah Nicholas, a wet work asset specializing in linguistics and untraceable weaponry; Sayo Tomo, a scholar whose entire career with the Phaelon has been to hunt their occultic arch enemy; and Tamara St. James, a woman trained in espionage and assignation by Jeremiah Nicholas himself, who was once his lover before her growing skills turned her into a competitor.

To keep mankind from falling prey to a prematurely triggered Judgment Day, the three charge after their target into the world’s international deadzones, where a preternatural weapon has macrobiotically frozen the Balkan States of Europe and nuclear fallout has ravaged the once fearsome mujihadeen of the Turkic Shari’a Nation into mutagenic cannibals.

Sons of God and Daughters of Men combines the neon cyberpunk grit of techno-noir, the pertinence of a smart political thriller, and the rich language textures of beautifully surrealistic weird fiction into a dreamscape that’s never been seen before!

Sounds great, doesn’t it? Well, wait until you read it! In the next few weeks, I’ll be releasing a few excerpts for you to get a taste of this incredibly rich science fiction thriller!

BIO:
Nicholas Tanguma attended university to learn to write novels.  He then dropped out of university to write novels.  This is his first book.

SONS OF GOD AND DAUGHTERS OF MEN will be released early 2012!

PULP AUTHOR PROMOTES LATEST WORKS AND AN OLD FAVORITE!

From Author Kevin Paul Shaw Broden-

FLYING GLORY AND THE HOUNDS OF GLORY
by Kevin Paul Shaw Broden and Shannon Muir
“Flying Glory can Survive Anything…” Or Can She?
You’ll have to read the latest page of “Looking for a Love Song” at http://www.flying-glory.com to find out.
REVENGE OF THE MASKED GHOST
by Kevin Paul Shaw Broden
As the author takes a break to rewrite early chapters return with us to the beginning as a terrifying figure
steps in out of the darkness in: Chapter 1 – “A Ghost out of the Storm”

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND NIGHTHAWK EDITION 1/16/11

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  • February 16, 2011
ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
NIGHTHAWK EDITION
1/16/11
ALL PULP WANTS YOU TO REPORT AND REVIEW!
All Pulp still has two of its three newly created open positions available for someone interested in reporting on Pulp News and doing reviews of pulp materials, such as books, comics, etc.  One position has been filled and an announcement is forthcoming about that, but two positions are still open.  The expansion of staff is due to the fact that original founding members of ALL PULP, the Bespectacled Seven, are extremely busy within the Pulp world and the success of ALL PULP has even taken them by surprise!  More quality help is needed to insure that Pulp fans get All the News that is Pulp every day!
If interested in this position, contact Tommy Hancock at allpulp@yahoo.com for details!
PULP AUTHOR/PUBLISHER ON PODCAST!
Ron Fortier, Airship 27 Partner as well as noted comic and pulp author appeared on The Outhouse Pirate Podcasst (http://www.theouthousers.com/index.php/podcasts-a-video/122/12443-outhouse-podcast-39-ron-fortier-interview.html).  Fortier reported that this podcast clocked in at over three hours. In fact, they were so keyed about the time Fortier spent talking pulps, they want him to come back and do a show solely on the pulps and their connections to comics.
PULP EMPIRE ANNOUNCES NEW RELEASE!
From Pulp Empire-
That time has finally come… the print edition of Pulp Empire Volume Four is now available! It is our biggest collection to date, jam packed with 13 amazing stories, all for only 18 bucks!

Or if you are a digital sort of reader, you can get an even more amazing deal: you can get the entire book for the low, low download price of $3. Pick it up, set it to your favorite e-reader, and enjoy!

There is only one sure fire way to support all of our authors at Pulp Empire and that is to buy our book!

 

ALL PULP’S SITE SPOTLIGHT-The Vintage Library!!!

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  • February 16, 2011

http://www.vintagelibrary.com/index.php

From the site’s introduction-

Welcome to the Vintage Library! We are a specialty, online bookstore featuring the fantastic worlds of Pulp Fiction, Old Time Radio and Cliffhanger Serials. We have over a thousand different, brand new books, magazines, fanzines, audio cds and dvds for you to choose from. We also carry a limited selection of used and rare books, original pulp fiction magazines and other collectors items. Online since May 10, 1997, we realize that this is a hobby for you and we want to make ordering as easy and hassle free as possible. If you are unhappy with what you receive, we’ll make it right!

GRANTON CITY PRESS RELEASES UNIT 13!!

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  • February 16, 2011
UNIT 13 HEADS INTO WORLD WAR I ACTION

Unit 13 is the fourth title from Granton City Press.

The Unit brings a rag tag special force under the wing of rough and rugged Sgt. Crake, who must take the unit behind the German lines to stop the enemy from creating a legion of abomination which could turn the tide of the Great War.

While a World War rages in the trenches of Northern France, Sergeant T.S. Crake leads Unit 13, a secret elite military force, deep behind enemy lines. The diverse force follows the rumors and vague reports of diabolical medical experiments back to a small occupied village where the Germans have created something monstrous — an unexpected weapon that will fundamentally change the very nature of modern warfare. 

When one of their own is captured during their escape, Sgt. Crake must decide whether to risk the rest of the Unit in a daring rescue. Reuniting with the Unit’s support team, they are joined by two new powerful allies and the question becomes that much more pressing. Do they return to their temporary base in England or do they follow their friend’s trail into the very heart of darkness?

Crake ultimately decides he cannot leave a comrade to suffer at the hands of madmen and will risk everything to save his friend. Half the German Army and a host of other dangers stand between them and success, but they have their own secrets that may just give them the edge. 

Their journey takes them halfway across Europe to the German’s main medical facility  hidden in the ancient Altenschatten Castle. Will they survive the treacherous road into the lion’s den? And what will they find when they get there? What horrors are lurking in the shadows of  Altenschatten?

The story comes from the co-writing team of Canadian Calvin Daniels and American Tyrell Tinnin, who met through the social networking site Facebook which has been a key networking tool for Granton City Press, although it wasn’t always a process which worked.

“I’ve made attempts with several writers, but styles and visions don’t always mesh, so several efforts went to the trash bin,” said Daniels.

But Daniels did find Tyrell Tinnin, a writer from Wichita, Kansas.

“Tyrell has been a blast to work with,” he said. “We get along great and are really on the same page in terms of the spin-off title Unit 13.”

Tinnin said he decided to give the project a try because he liked the premise.

“History with a dash of science fiction, who really could resist that combo?” he said, adding he has found co-writing with Daniels, “Working with Calvin is crazy, you never know what story curve balls that guy will throw at you.”
Unit 13 is a sort of prequel set in World War One.

“Some of the characters show up in Granton City years later,” said Daniels. “Others are unique to Unit 13, at least for now.”

Tinnin explains the ‘feel’ of the title as being “a mash-up of pulpy ‘Weird War’ and ‘Kelly’s Heroes’ or ‘Inglorious Basterds’.”

Book #1 of Unit 13 is now available.

In preparation for the book’s release, Granton City Press did some pre-selling which Daniels said was important to bolster interest in the book, and to offset initial costs. People were provided a chance to pre-purchase the book, however, not just a regular copy of the book. 

Instead, the first 100 pre-sales were sold as signed &_numbered copies of the book. They were numbered 1/100, 2/100, 3/100 etc., and signed by both Daniels and Tinnin.

Anyone purchasing a book through the offer will have an opportunity to purchase signed & numbered editions of future Unit 13 novels with the same sequence number. That will mean ensuring every book you purchase has a matching number such as 3/100, said Daniels, adding there are a few S&N copies of The Horrors of Altenschatten still available.

Follow Unit 13 at http://www.wix.com/grantoncitydesk/togc and http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=81770083773
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For further information or to order any of our titles;
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A BOOK A DAY TELLS YOU WHO REALLY WON WORLD WAR II!

A BOOK A DAY TELLS YOU WHO REALLY WON WORLD WAR II!

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  • February 16, 2011

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Dr. Mickey Smith, Barnard Distinguished Professor Emeritus at the University of Mississippi, is the author of a new book, How Fibber McGee and Molly Won World War II. This entertaining essay combines serious subjects and comedy in chronicling a very special period in the broadcast life of one of radio’s most popular and best-loved series. In the book Smith describes how the special combination of the stars themselves, a writing genius, and the “perfect” sponsor, produced a one-of-a-kind program, melding laughs and patriotism during one of America’s darkest hours. Jim and Marian Jordan somehow hooked up with the writing genius of Don Quinn, and the unparalleled support of the Johnson (Wax) Company to produce an entertaining, funny series of programs with an uwavering message–America was in the right, the men (and women) in the military deserved unflagging support, and the folks at home had a vital role to play, assuring the ultimate victory.

The story is told via excerpts from scores of broadcasts, enhanced by the author’s observations. An account of the difficult, but ultimately successful, efforts of the government and of the broadcast industry to adapt to wartime conditions provides an illuminating backdrop to the story. Fifteen photographs illustrate the book.

The McGees’ messages, while always supportive of the war effort, were sometimes poignant. An example is Molly’s post-war reminder in support of the National War Fund, an agency devoted to providing recreational care and maintenance of morale for the military until they returned home: “We gave our boys a warm hand when they left. Let’s not give them the cold shoulder now.”

Fibber McGee and Molly highlighted subjects not usually given a lot of attention, such as the Coast Guard, Merchant Marine,”WACS”, Inflation, and Aid to European War Victims.

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND BULLDOG EDITION 1/16/11

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  • February 16, 2011
ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
BULLDOG EDITION
1/16/11
PRO SE’S PULP MACHINE POUNDING OUT PULP DAILY!
Pro Se Productions announces that via its blogsite, http://www.pulpmachine.blogspot.com/, it will be running two alternating web only tales for free to provide daily content for the site.  Each story will be written and illustrated by Fuller Bumpers and are insured to be wild rides in totally different directions!  Stay tuned to ALL PULP for a future interview with Bumpers.  Bur for now, meet…

This web comic from Bumpers looks at an old man ravaged by age and illness and asks the question- What if he wasn’t always this way?  What if in fact he was a man beyond mortal men, a hero of the super variety?  And what if one day in his dark twilight years, he had to be that man again?   Strap in and hold on tight for this post modern deconstruction and reconstruction of the heroic concept!  Yesterday he was in a wheelchair.  Today once more he is THE AMERICAN!

Or if something else is a little more your speed, maybe you should be reading…

This Detective with a twist tale set in San Francisco in the late 1960s stars Cole Adams, a man who, by his own words will, for the right money, wear a suit.   Adams, a private investigator by trade, is hired to take pictures and, if necessary, protect the daughter of a well heeled client from ‘the wrong people’.   What follows for Adams and the reader will definitely be a mystery, but with elements like none you’ve ever seen!

Follow http://www.pulpmachine.blogspot.com/ to keep up with these wild stretches of the imagination!

SNEAK PEEK AT INTERIOR ART FOR THE NEXT ROOK!

Noted Pulp Author and Bespectacled Seven member Barry Reese eagerly shares this little artistic tidbit from the upcoming THE ROOK, VOLUME SIX, due out later this year from Wild Cat Books.  This piece, masterfully done by Anthony Castrillo, is of Sun Koh, referred to by many as ‘The German Doc Savage!’ 

THE ROOK, VOLUME SIX by Barry Reese coming this year from Wild Cat Books!!!



A BOOK A DAY-It’s Those Battlin’ Bickersons!!!!

A BOOK A DAY-It’s Those Battlin’ Bickersons!!!!

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  • February 16, 2011

 
ALL PULP is sorry, but due to a sickness, we didn’t get you your book a day like we had for so long..well, no worries!  We now bring you…
 
The official Bickersons biography!
 
For anyone writing in the golden era of Pulp, this is a great resource to have just so you know a sample of what America was listening to at the time….

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Read the rave reviews!

Finally – the definitive biography of The Bickersons! Lavishly illustrated, with a foreword by Blanche herself, Frances Langford, this book unearths material never before published:

A complete history of the program

Biographies of the cast

Scripts from Star Time, Old Gold & radio commercials

A history of John, Blanche, Nature Boy & those grasping relatives

The infamous Honeymooners/Jackie Gleason court case

Unused material

And much more!

ALL PULP NEWSSTAND NIGHTHAWK EDITION 1/15/11

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  • February 15, 2011
ALL PULP NEWSSTAND
NIGHTHAWK EDITION
1/15/11
NOTED PULP AUTHOR OFFERS FREE STORY TO RAISE FUNDS FOR PULP OUTLET!
Joshua Reynolds, author of DRACULA LIVES and the writer of the Charles St. Cyprian series for Pro Se Productions, is offering a special incentive for those considering a donation to Innsmouth Free Press’ February Fundraiser-a free 10,000 word (or thereabouts) novella, with artwork by noted pulp-artist MD Jackson! “The Black-Winged Ones” is an occult mystery set in turn of the century New Orleans, and features Lovecraft’s own creations Harley Warren and Inspector Legrasse investigating a gruesome series of murders! Visit http://joshuamreynolds.blogspot.com/2011/02/thursday-is-for-charity-and-cthulhu.html for more details!’
COLLECTION OF RARE PULPS ACQUIRED, NOW FOR SALE!!
Friends of ALL PULP have informed this stalwart news site that a seller of pop culture items and a pulp fan to boot has recently come into possession of a massive collection of rare pulp magazines.  David White, a known seller of comics and pulps on Ebay and looking to break into selling at conventions at well, has acquired well over 2000 rare pulps, titles that range across multiple genres!
According to White, the individual who built the collection put approximately seventy years into building it into nearly 3,000 issues, including such titles as Amazing Stories, Thrilling Wonder, Wonder Stories, Science Wonder, Fantastic Adventure, Horror Tales, Argosy, among many others.  Included in some of the magazines are pulp landmarks, such as debuts of many writers and early tales from such icons as Burroughs, Cummings, McCulley, and others.
Currently White is listing these items as he goes through them on his Ebay store at http://stores.ebay.com/Daves-Comic-Vault or can be emailed at dwhite904@yahoo.com

Hancock Tips His Hat to a few Tales from Back in the Day!

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  • February 15, 2011

TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Pulp Reviews by Tommy Hancock

This is a bit of a different column than my usual.   Normally, I tip my hat to the newest members and denizens of what many of us are referring to as “The Pulp Renaissance”, looking at new authors and works.  But I also am a reader, student, and mostly a fan of the true blue classics from the golden era of Pulps.  Which means I read those missives and from time to time will share my thoughts with some of them with you…like these for instance…

DEATH IS TOO EASY
by Arthur J. Burks
http://www.blackmask.com/, http://www.pulpgen.com/

Two cops work as partners and work from two different philosophies, one by the book, the other by the gun.    When it finally gets too much for the law and order type, he walks off from his more violent partner who ends up taking on a whole mob on his own.   Quickly he learns how even with a fast gun, he can’t do it all alone.  Will he have to?

This is a fast paced story that does a good job of throwing bullets on every page as well as giving you a one two punch on characterization.  The two main characters are just barely more dimensional than the cardboard cutout criminals they fight, but it’s just enough to make the story interesting.   Burks does a good job of not only showing personality traits, but also of showing how characters evolve and grow.  This is definitely a shining example of what pulp tales could be when done right.

FOUR OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF THE HAT-Cops, robbers, bullets, and character growth.  Wow.

CAVE OF TERROR
from the Lone Ranger Magazine
by Fran Striker
August, 1937

I’ve read enough western pulp and read, seen, and heard enough Lone Ranger to know what to expect when I read a tale starring the Masked Man and his Indian companion.   OK, so even I can be wrong!  CAVE OF TERROR on its surface is a tale of the Lone Ranger and Tonto going after bad guys who are holed up in a labyrinthine cave led by a criminal mastermind who might also be an once well respected judge.  This leads to all the stereotypical western conceits, confrontations, and cliches and Striker deftly nails every single one of those. 

But CAVE OF TERROR exceeds the typical western pulp limitations.  This is a thriller bar none and I will honestly tell you that The Ranger in this tale is not a super heroic man in a mask, but a hero who gets in way over his cowboy hat more than once and knows it!  Striker amps up the danger and intrigue, setting a very good stage for the ‘Who is the Boss’ mystery and puts the Ranger in situations that test even his abilities and does it in a very believable way.  CAVE OF TERROR is a fantastically wild, pulse pounding well paced mystery adventure!

FIVE OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF THE HAT!-Hi yo, Silver!! For sure.

LONG SHOT
by Richard Sale
Detective Fiction Weekly
January 9, 1937

This is the first story to star Candid Jones, one of Richard Sale’s most used pulp heroes.  Jones, along with another creation, Daffy Dill, established Sale as an author skilled at writing off kilter, yet consistently well paced hard boiled detective stories.  Although LONG SHOT does have the qualities that made Sale the legend he became, it isn’t really a top of the line tale.  The storyline concerns attempts to manipulate races at a racetrack with a good dose of murder thrown in.  Sale’s characterizations are extremely entertaining and the wrap up of the case is fairly decent, but the build up lags in parts and in other parts simply lacks cohesiveness.  The connections that have to be made to discover the killer’s identity aren’t really as strong as they could have been.  But overall a fine debut for a neat character.

THREE OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF HANCOCK’S HAT-Less racing, more Candid would have been nice.

Hancock Tips His Hat to Nick Kismet-Espionage, Action, Magic-All in One Spot!

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  • February 15, 2011

TIPPIN’ HANCOCK’S HAT-Pulp Reviews by Tommy Hancock
THE DEVIL YOU KNOW
by Sean Ellis
Published by Seven Realms Publishing
Published 12/10

Pulp is a wonderful field.  It encompasses so many genres and focuses on so many different types of heroes, villains, and characters.  You can have action, crime, magic, adventure, even romance and humor in the stories that erupt from the volcano of pulp fiction.  What’s even better is when all the lava and ash and such mingle together and what you get when it hardens is a character and a story that has it all. 

Sean Ellis’ Nick Kismet in THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is the result of a perfect pulp eruption.

Kismet, a consultant for the Global Heritage Commission, is basically a one stop man of action/adventure/troubleshooting/globehopping.  In this novella, you get a hint of his history and background, enough to know that if Ellis had written him back in the 1930s and 40s, then Kismet would rank right up there with The Saint and The Falcon. 

This particular story has Kismet getting a call that hints at giving him information on Prometheus, a shadowy group that he’s tracked in past cases.  At first Kismet thinks the half message he receives is nothing, but he can’t resist following it up.  Keeping the meet suggested in the message, Kismet gets involved in what appears to be a tug of war between a traditional Mafia family and Colombian drug cartels led by a seemingly immortal priest who wears an ancient biblical artifact full of evil.  I say appears because by the time Kismet rescues the girls, fights commandoes, runs from attack dogs and ATVs, and basically incites a shootout at a mansion, what Nick is really involved in turns out to be something altogether different.  And awesome.

THE DEVIL YOU KNOW is a fast paced tale that starts at the beginning and doesn’t stop.  The only real criticism I have is that maybe it starts too quickly in the high octane vein and the reader has to spend some time catching his/her breath to figure out just what is going on.  Ellis allows for this, though, less than halfway through the tale, so this again is just a minor issue.

Like your heroes able to do just about anything, think on their feet, and ready to answer any call or even half messages?  Then Kismet is your man.  Ellis combines a modern pacing and today’s world with a pulp archetypal hero who is unabashedly a jack of all trades, a man’s man, and here to do good.   Wow.  

FOUR OUT OF FIVE TIPS OF THE HAT-Leslie Charteris, meet your successor.

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