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Tim Mayer with a review of HARDBOILED.

Chad Eagleton...

Chad Eagleton's thoughts on writing the fourth Simon Rip adventure.

BEAT to a PULP #151: A Rip through Time: Darkling in the Eternal Space by Chad Eagleton

Chris F. Holm, Charles A. Gramlich, and Garnett Elliott have all gone a round with the BTAP Simon Rip saga, and all three have done an amazing job fleshing out
the worlds and characters I had imagined with breathtaking elements I never would have dreamed of creating.

Now, Chad Eagleton takes us to the next stop beyond. To reveal even a small part of this beautiful piece would be a crime, so I won't, though I will tell you this latest Simon Rip adventure brings the story thread--that began over a year ago--to a conclusion.

However, Mr. Eagleton is just brimming over with ideas, so much that he has written another Rip story in a novella! More on that another day. For now, here is the return of the time cop hero in "Darkling in the Eternal Space".

A Nice Way To Start The Day

Loitering with intent. Thanks, Eva!

My Dark Pages

I'm at Dead End Follies with a pithy remembrance of Frank and Joe Hardy. Stop by when you get a second.

Photo-Finish Friday -- Teaching Ava to Drive

She's already doing the Jeep wave.

Leah J. Utas is the force behind PFF.

Hope everyone has a top weekend.

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled Is Out Now!

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled is a compilation of uncompromising, gritty tales following in the footsteps of the tough and violent fiction popularized by the legendary Black Mask magazine in its early days. This collection includes thirteen lean and mean stories from the fingertips of Garnett Elliott, Glenn Gray, John Hornor Jacobs, Patricia Abbott, Thomas Pluck, Brad Green, Ron Earl Phillips, Kent Gowran, Amy Grech, Benoit Lelievre, Kieran Shea, David Cranmer, and Wayne D. Dundee and a boiled down look at hardboiled fiction in an introduction by Ron Scheer. Edited by David Cranmer and Scott D. Parker.

BEAT to a PULP: Hardboiled is available at Amazon.

BEAT to a PULP #150: Free Mercury by Jodi MacArthur

Jodi MacArthur believes lava and quick silver should be guarded by puppeteers in separate galaxies. Her fiction has been featured in pulp, bizarro, and horror magazines throughout the web and in print.

Jodi MacArthur is at BEAT to a PULP with "Free Mercury."

7 Questions With...

Nik Korpon at Gutter Books.

"All of this is a long way to say I want to read stories where the knife is wavering beneath the table, unsheathed, rather than covered in blood."

Photo-Finish Friday -- Smoke 'n Paint

My Charmers and I were driving in the countryside when I saw these two horses that could have passed for the steeds of my heroes.

PFF is the creation of Leah J. Utas.

Hope everyone has a fun-filled weekend.