PulpFest is on the way!

PulpFest is quickly approaching. It's a great convention, which grew out of the original pulp convention, PulpCon.

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!"

Jungle Tales Vol. 1 in print and performing well

My first story for Airship 27 has enjoyed a nice launch!

"The Devil's Nest" is a Ki-Gor story published in Jungle Tales Volume 1, which is now available as a print edition from Amazon.  (Click here for more info.) It arrived in print format just about one month ago.

According to Barry Reese's informative New Pulp Best Seller List, the anthology--which also features stories by Aaron Smith and W. Peter Miller -- debuted at Number 5 on the top 10 list for June 25.  It's dropped off the list one week since that time and now, but Barry's most recent list (for July 23) has Jungle Tales hanging on at the 10 spot. I think that's pretty good, considering the competition, which includes a new Hard Case Crime release (False Negative by Joseph Koenig) and the most recent Doc Savage adventure (The Infernal Buddha) penned by Will Murray.

Part of the appeal of this Ki-Gor collection is, I think, the Tarzan Centennial. Pulp fans are in the mood for some fresh jungle action, I think. Dinosaurs and jungle action--what's not to like?

By the way, the dandy black-and-white illo accompanying this post is by Kelly Everaert, who provided the very nice interior illustrations for the book.

I have some other Ki-Gor projects in the works. I'll let you know when the news is ripe.

Many thanks to those who have bought and read Jungle Tales Volume 1!

My new Ki-Gor adventure in Jungle Tales Volume 1

I'm contributing to this year's Tarzan Centennial with a novella in a new anthology: Jungle Tales, Volume 1, from new pulp publisher Airship 27, features three stories about popular jungle hero Ki-Gor. My story, "The Devil's Nest," finds our hero searching for a lost American heir, encoutering a lost tribe of warriors, and battling a squad of mercenaries hunting down the lost gold mines of Ophir, the source of King Solomon's gold.

This action-packed anthology also features stories by Aaron Smith and Peter Miller, a bold painted cover by  Bryan Fowler, and interior illustrations by Kelly Everaert. The eBook version currently is available from Airship 27's Hangar, which you can reach this URL:

http://www.robmdavis.com/OScommerce/product_info.php?products_id=85&osCsid=4934eefcf304e00ace989fd9c215894c

A print version will soon be available.

Find out more at The Pulp Rack:
http://pulprack.blogspot.com/

- Duane

Happy Flapper Friday doodle

I know it's not Friday yet, but tomorrow more than half the town will be taking off the day for Oaks Day at Churchill Downs. So I'm getting a jump on things. A happy partier seems appropriate for the weekend festivities tied to the big horse race, so that's today's doodle.

Harry Crews, author of ‘Feast of Snakes’ and ‘The Knockout Artist’, dead at 76

Marvelous writer of gritty, no-frills Southern fiction from the hard-scrabble griddle of the down and out.

Harry Crews, author of ‘Feast of Snakes’ and ‘The Knockout Artist’, dead at 76

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/harry-crews-author-feast-snakes-knockout-artist-dead-76-article-1.1053093#ixzz1qiK6jbQi

Final Friday of 2011 Doodle

We're running into 2012 as fast as we can (the mad dash at one second per second). This little doodle is my tip of the hat and farewell to 2011.

Happy New Year's Weekend, everyone!

Criminous Haiku on The 5-2

The week of December 26, the crime poetry site The 5-2 is featuring a haiku I wrote. Besides being a haiku about crime, it has a seasonal/holiday slant.

Gerald So, who edits The 5-2 site, posts a new crime-associated poem each week. Gerald is a member of the Academy of American Poets, his poems have appeared in Nerve Cowboy, Barbaric Yawp, Defenestration, Cherry Bleeds, Yellow Mama, Gutter Eloquence Magazine and other provocatively-named venues. He broadcast an invitation for holiday-themed submissions, and I responded. I'm not sure how many weeks he has set aside for the holiday poetry, but I was pleased to receive his acceptance. Gerald also posted his reading of the poem. It's haiku, so don't worry -- it's short.