I'll be at PulpFest this year with a stack of Jungle Tales Volume 1 and a stack of Where Legends Ride, the anthology published by Express Westerns that includes my story, "Pretty Polly." But the main point is to reconnect with friends and talk about pulp magazines, old movies, illustrators and cover painters, and a whole argosy of topics related to popular fiction and the great magazines in which it appeared.
Pulp fan Walker Martin describes the wonder that is PulpFest in a short passage that's better than I could manage:
August 9 through August 12 in Columbus Ohio (pulpfest.com). If you love old magazines, vintage paperbacks, pulp reprints, artwork, then you have to attend. The evening panels are amazing, probably the best I've ever read about in all the years I've been going to Pulpcon.
This convention is not to be missed if you are crazy about back issues of SF, detective, western, hero, and adventure pulps. Hell, I know what I'm talking about. I've been going to pulp shows since 1972. I'm basically a reader, 24/7 and I would not waste my time attending if it was not a special and necessary event. If it was the usual SF convention nonsense that they hold nowadays, I would say stay home and read a good book!
But fellow readers and collectors, this is heaven for a reader and collector. Over a hundred tables, a great hotel, great friends, and interesting panels.
You can learn more about PulpFest by clicking here.
As Walker says, " A summer event not to be missed!"
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