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Crazy 8 Press Plans CBLDF Benefit Story

c8-final-logo-300x247-3867144Yeah, yeah, it ‘s a bit of shameless self-promotion but it’s for a good cause.

Hunt Valley, Maryland — They may not be wearing super-hero capes, but members of the new web-based writers’ group Crazy 8 Press will swoop in to help the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (CBLDF) at the 33rd annual Shore Leave science fiction media convention the weekend of July 8-10, 2011.

Crazy 8 founders Peter David, Michael Jan Friedman, Robert Greenberger, Glenn Hauman, Aaron Rosenberg and Howard Weinstein will raise funds for the CBLDF by tag-team writing an original story on the floor of the convention at Baltimore’s Marriott Hunt Valley Inn.

Fans will have a chance to participate by contributing possible opening sentences, one of which will be randomly chosen as the story’s starting point. First-sentence candidates can be submitted in advance through the Crazy 8 Press Facebook (www.facebook.com/pages/Crazy-8-Press) page, as well as at the convention on Friday evening. The finished work will be sold as a low-cost e-book, on sale through Amazon, Barnesandnoble.com and other internet booksellers.

Profits from this story will benefit the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, a non-profit organization fighting censorship and defending the First Amendment rights of comic book professionals. All of Crazy 8’s founding writers have worked in the comic book industry and David currently serves on the CBLDF board of directors.

Crazy 8 Press, which announced its formation in February, is a home for its established authors to sell original novels directly to readers through online book retailers. Together, Crazy 8’s founders have written hundreds of books and comics over the past 35 years, with combined sales of more than 15 million copies. The group has set a first-year goal of presenting at least one new novel-length title every other month.

The first new novel will be Peter David’s The Camelot Papers. Aaron Rosenberg’s novel No Small Bills will follow in September. Information on these and all future Crazy 8 Press projects can be found at www.crazy8press.com. All new stories (and some older, out of print works) by the Crazy 8 writers will be available for purchase through online booksellers including Amazon and Barnesandnoble.com.

Friedman described Crazy 8 Press as a natural response to upheavals in book publishing. “With publishers and retailers under pressure,” he said, “distribution channels are shrinking. We’re offering our readers a way to receive our work that’s not dependent on any third party.”

“Until now,” said David, “we’ve been at the mercy of book store buyers, who would tell publishers if what we wrote was suitable for their stores. Now that barrier is down. We’re coming to readers pure and unleashed, with stories they would never have seen in a traditional publishing environment.”

“Science fiction has always been a community where writers and readers enjoy a close relationship and exchange ideas,” Greenberger added. “The Crazy 8 platform allows us to make that relationship even closer and more interactive.”

A note from the management: please avoid clicking Amazon links from here for a short while

A note from the management: please avoid clicking Amazon links from here for a short while

Apparently, Amazon has closed our Associate account without notification, or any reason given. Which means that if you’re buying items from us in order to help us pay for the costs of this site, we’d appreciate it if you could defer your purchases for a few days while we get this sorted out with Amazon, on the off chance that Amazon doesn’t credit us for the amount of time the site is down.

We’ll put up a notification when this is resolved. Thank you.

UPDATE: All better now. Feel free to click and buy. May we recommend something to do with [[[Green Lantern]]], or perhaps [[[The Original Johnson]]]?

FARMER PULP CLASSIC AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON WITH ECKERT AFTERWORD AND MORE!

FARMER PULP CLASSIC AVAILABLE AGAIN SOON WITH ECKERT AFTERWORD AND MORE!

Reposted from http://www.sherlockholmesbooks.org/2011/06/coming-soon-further-adventures-of.html

Coming soon: The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer

The Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes: The Peerless Peer

by Philip Jose Farmer
Holmes and Watson take to the skies in the quest of the nefarious Von Bork and his weapon of dread… A night sky aerial engagement with the deadly Fokker nearly claims three brilliant lives… And an historic alliance is formed, whereby Baker Street’s enigmatic mystery-solver and Greystoke, the noble savage, peer of the realm and lord of the jungle, team up to bring down the hellish hun!

This edition also contains a brand new afterword by Win Scott Eckert and a bonus preview of the new Kim Newman novel, Moriarty: The Hound of the D’Urbervilles.

PULPWORK PRESS ANNOUNCES WEIRD WEST 2 PREORDER!

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD 2 Now Available for Pre-Order

On July 1, HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD VOL. 2 will be available to the whole wide world, through Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Smashwords, and a host of other places, both offline and on. Twenty stories by some of the top names in New Pulp, mashing the western with horror, sci-fi, and fantasy – and all wrapped in a gorgeous new cover by Jim Rugg.
But say you don’t want to wait – nay, you CAN’T wait – a whole month for the release of this 368-page blockbuster. There’s no need! Pulpwork Press (in association with Anderfam Press) is now taking advance orders for HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD VOL. 2.
Here’s what you get with your pre-order:
  1. The book, of course.
  2. Free shipping.
  3. A free bonus e-book: HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD: CAMPFIRE TALES. This e-book, available in just about any format you like, includes weird west stories by Josh Reynolds, Joel Jenkins, Derrick Ferguson, and Russ Anderson. These are stories that aren’t included in either of the HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD books, and this is the only way you’re going to get your hands on them. Here’s the cover.
HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD VOL. 2 is $14.99.

BookExpo America, Day 0

BookExpo America is in town, and there are a few obvious themes, but a lot of it seems to be “more of the same”. Sales efforts seem to be going to the same old licensed properties and celebrity products– I was surprised that IDW didn’t even have any of Darwyn Cooke’s Parker adaptations on display, for example. (And don’t tell me it’s not because the next one is a while off, there’s a nice omnibus edition coming, it’s still one of the more prestigious properties they publish, and there’s a decent amount of backlist titles on display, although not complete by any means.)

E-pub  and blogging seems to be a much bigger deal here, with healthy showings from Google, Overdrive, and Amazon (both Kindle and their new print line) and the concurrent BlogWorld convention going on downstairs. Somehow, I think a lot more people are going to being migrating there over the course of the show.

We expect to be at the CBLDF party later tonight, and we hope to see you there.

Amazon Now Sells More eBooks Than Paper Books

Yesterday. the future arrived.

[[[Amazon]]] announced that eBooks are now the most popular sales format on Amazon.com, outselling the joint sales of hardback and paperback books. Since April 1, 2011, for every 100 print books Amazon has sold, it has sold 105 Kindle editions. It took Amazon just about four years to make that statement come true, and it represents the tipping point.

Related to that, the Association of American Publishers released new sales figures for March 2011, and eBook sales were up from last year, but down from February 2011. March eBook sales totaled $69.9 million, compared to $90.3 million in February 2011. Still, this was a big increase from March 2010, which saw $28.1M in sales (a 145.7% increase).

And yes, they’re cannibalizing paper sales.

So far, we don’t have numbers on what it’s doing for comic sales, although Apple has stated that the most in-app purchases have come from comic book programs, although no one’s quoting hard numbers yet. But it will only be a matter of time and display technology.

As for me, I don’t feel like Kevin McCarthy screaming in traffic quite so much anymore.

MOONSTONE MONDAY-LATEST GREEN HORNET DETAILS ANNOUNCED!

Win Scott Eckert announces contents for THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES

I’m pleased to announce the final contents Moonstone Books‘ second Green Hornet anthology,The Green Hornet Casefiles.
  • Edited by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert
  • Cover Art (Limited Edition Hardcover): Rubén Procopio
  • Cover Art (Trade Edition Softcover): Michael Wm. Kaluta
  • 336pgs, b/w, Squarebound, 6”x9”
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Contents:

  • “The Outlaw Hero” – Introduction by Ron Fortier
  • “Sting of the Yellowjacket” by Howard Hopkins
  • “Lair of the Living Dead” by Joe McKinney
  • “Through a Green Haze” by Dan Wickline
  • “The Black Widow” by John Everson
  • “A Thing of Beauty” by Bobby Nash
  • “The Insincerest Form of Flattery” by Paul D. Storrie
  • “Bad Medicine” by Vito Delsante and Win Scott Eckert
  • “The Gray Line Between” by F.J. DeSanto, Michael Uslan and Joe Gentile
  • “Up in Smoke” by Deborah Chester
  • “The Worst Angels of Our Nature” by Paul Kupperberg
  • “Now That Would Be Telling” by Bradley H. Sinor
  • “Summer of Death” by Barry Reese
  • “The Wet and the Wicked” by David Boop
  • “The Carlossi Caper” by Arthur A. Lyon
  • “Soldanus, the Sultan of Crime” by Gary Phillips
  • “The Dangerous Game” by Eric Fein
  • “Beauty Is As Beauty Dies” by James Mullaney
  • “Auld Acquaintance” by Matthew Baugh
  • “Memories of My Grandfather, Raymond J. Meurer” – Afterword by Lisa Meurer Long
  • Bonus Story In Limited Edition: “If These Walls Could Buzz” by Tim Lasiuta and Rafael Nieves

Pre-order:

PULP ARK NOTE-RON FORTIER, BOBBY NASH, BARRY REESE, AND JOE GENTILE, CEO OF MOONSTONE WILL ALL BE IN ATTENDANCE AT THE FIRST ANNUAL PULP ARK CONVENTION/CONFERENCE MAY 13-15TH IN BATESVILLE, AR!

Twitter Updates for 2011-03-23

Twitter Updates for 2011-03-23

  • @stephenwacker @JHickman @DanSlott Has anyone ever read themselves into becoming a bad writer? #
  • Check out this Amazon deal: '75 Years Of DC Comics: The Art Of Modern Mythmaking' at nearly half price! http://amzn.to/epvjJC #
  • @Kevin_Church @andykhouri How can the girls be naked AND cosplaying at the same time? #
  • @tombrazelton Nice to avenge @gmcalpin — of course, if his fight went the other way, you'd be trying to crush him now. #
  • RT @slashfilm: Albert Pyun’s 1990 ‘Captain America’ Is Getting a Director’s Cut http://bit.ly/gAWlPf #