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New Sci-Fi Podcast and a Round-Up of New Sci-Fi Books from the Sci-Fi Roundtable

A new podcast from the Knights of the Sci-Fi Roundtable has been released to promote their members, their books, and their interests. Check it out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?reload=...

Sci-Fi and Fantasy Spring Giveaway.

Here's your chance to pick up some great books.

New Box Set

Pick up the box set of the Shan Takhu Legacy
and get a BONUS short story.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07QCLKN6L

New Book Releases

Anodyne Dreams by Clancy Weeks
Relic Hunter by Melinda Kucsera
MarvelousCon & Tax Cons by Rachel Ford
Safe Passage by Rachel Ford
Deconstruction by Steve M
Schrödinger's Dog by Allan Brewer

Druid's Portal: The Second Journey by Cindy Tomamichel releases May 22, 2019

Freebies and Sales


Get Max and the Banjo Ferret FREE
May 15 - 19, 2019

Get Sentient for $0.99. Sale ends on May 31

Blogs, Short Stories & Interviews

Transformation: A postapocalyptic flash fiction from Cindy Tomamichel
This month MF Metheringham IV reviews ‘A Game of Thrones’ by GRR Martin Satire at its finest.
Zachry Wheeler interviews Zora Marie on ZeeDub Bezzies.

New Book on Woodstock's 50th Anniversary

New Book on Woodstock’s 50th Anniversary Offers Front-Row Seat to Greatest Concert in History

STEVENS POINT, WI – The year was 1969. Richard Nixon was in the White House. Neil Armstrong was on the Moon. And revolution was in the air. In that backdrop, 500,000 young people gathered on a mid-August weekend in upstate New York for the promise of three days of peace and music. What they experienced at the Woodstock Music and Art Fair was
something far greater.

Celebrating “the greatest peaceful event in history,” Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm (Krause Publications) offers a dazzling and compelling front-row seat to the most important concert in rock history, an implausible happening filled with trials and triumphs that defined a generation.

Author and Woodstock attendee Mike Greenblatt brilliantly captures the power of music’s greatest performers such as Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Santana and the Who, while sharing stories both personal and audacious from the crowd of a half million strong who embraced not only the music but each other.

The book features a Foreword by Country Joe McDonald, whose rousing solo acoustic version of “The Fish Cheer/I-Feel-Like-I’m-Fixin’-To-Die Rag” was one of the most memorable performances at Woodstock. Readers will enjoy interviews with such rock icons as Graham Nash, Carlos Santana, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, Country Joe McDonald, Edgar Winter, members of Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Sly & The Family Stone, Canned Heat, Sha Na Na, co-host Chip Monck, fans and countless others. In addition, all 32 performances at the festival are showcased.
Equal parts circus and surreal, Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm tells a transcendent tale of a musical and mythical moment in time.

Advance Praise for Woodstock 50th Anniversary

“Straight from a long-haired hippie who experienced all that Woodstock had to offer — the beauty, the mud, the music and the cultural eccentricities — Mike Greenblatt has carried Woodstock deep within his soul ever since. Fifty years later, he writes with charming alacrity about that weekend, his memory on fire, lighting up the personal details of what occurred at this once-in-a-lifetime communal concert event.

— Pat Prince, editor, Goldmine magazine

“Mike Greenblatt’s long-awaited debut book on Woodstock— filled with his own hilarious memories and impressive interviews and research— is fascinating and dazzling. It’s definitely the definitive book on the wild festival fifty years ago that rocked America.”

— Susan Shapiro, New York Times bestselling author of Lighting Up, Unhooked and The Byline Bible


About The Author
All Mike Greenblatt has done in life is listen to music and tell people about it, be it as a New York City publicist, editor or freelance journalist. It’s been five decades of chronicling rock ’n’ roll in all of its permutations. Whether sitting front row at Woodstock, flying with Hank Williams, Jr. in his private jet, driving around the Jersey Shore with Bruce Springsteen, getting angrily thrown against a backstage wall by Meat Loaf, or being locked in a dressing room with Jerry Lee Lewis threatening to kill him, Greenblatt’s voice has sung the praises of rock loud and long.

Greenblatt has interviewed Elton John, the Eagles (where he extemporaneously interviewed Joe Walsh at side-by-side urinals deep within the bowels of Giants Stadium), Paul McCartney, Blondie, The Allman Brothers, Waylon Jennings and hundreds of others.

He lives in Easton, Penn., with his music-teacher wife and their two rescue beagles.


Woodstock 50th Anniversary: Back to Yasgur’s Farm
By Mike Greenblatt

8 x 8, hardcover, 224 pages
300-plus photographs
ISBN-13: 9781440248900
List Price: $24.99
Krause Publications

Available in July wherever good books are sold

For more information contact author Mike Greenblatt: Mikeg101@ptd.net;
610.253.9324; or contact Editorial Director Paul Kennedy at paul.kennedy@fwmedia.com/715.318.0372

Link to Wes Britton's video interview!

Here's the link to Wes Britton's May 9 50 minute video interview with Jasveena R Prabhagaran of International Book Promotions:
https://youtu.be/SiZ3PQSXEAs, donswrite@aol.com

Topics include: creative inspirations, the impact of blindness on Wes's writing, being a indy writer, the writing process, differences between non-fiction and fiction, and much more . . .

Video Interview with Wes Britton On Thursday, May 9!

Courtesy of International Book Promotions, you can join in on a video chat with author Wes Britton tomorrow, May 9, at 8:00 Eastern time at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiZ3P...

If memory serves, you can drop in and ask your own questions along with host Jasveena R Prabhagaran!

Hear you then!

Announcing our new trailer for Alpha Tales 2044

Alien Vision is proud to present our official book trailer for Alpha Tales 2044
https://youtu.be/6Q2yAg_4Yvc

IBP's Book Trailer: Alpha Tales 2044 by Wesley Britton
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New Books on Horror, Sci-Fi, and Adventure movies

Horror, adventure, and sci-fi movie fans might like to hear about these titles from BearManor Media:

Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees for the 17th Annual Rondo Award Winners. Amongst those this year include two BearManor Media publications:

Book of the Year
The Dr. Phibes Companion by Justin Humphreys
In The Abominable Dr.Phibes (1971) and its sequel, Dr.Phibes Rises Again (1972), horror great Vincent Price starred asvaudevillian organist and super-genius Dr. Anton Phibes, architect of incredibly ingenious murders. Set in 1920s London and Egypt, their outstanding ArtDeco production design, absurd humor, and soaring romance made them hits,beloved by generations of horror fans.

Best Article
‘When Danforth Ruled the Earth,’ by Mark Wolf, LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS #41.
Hammer Films had a huge hit when One Million Years B.C. was released in 1966. Sir James Carreras says "give me another one like that!" Out came the wonderfully colorful followup with well coifed cave people and Jim Danforth's Academy Award nominated Stop Motion Animation effects!

BearManor Media has also just added these Kindle Titles:

Drums of the Lost Gods
by Dan Leissner
Drums of the Lost Gods is a thrilling cliffhanger, set in South America, in the turbulent 1930s. An ill-assorted band of adventurers follows a nameless river into the sacred mountains and steaming jungles of a Lost World, in search of ancient civilizations and vanished cities of gold.

Who Framed Boris Karloff?
by Dwight Kemper
It is 1938 and there is murder afoot on the set of Son of Frankenstein. Boris Karloff has been framed for murder! He joins forces with Basil Rathbone, in full Sherlockian mode, and a gleeful Bela Lugosi. It's a case of the legends of horror meet the three stooges as our daring heroes search for a missing movie mogul and end up crossing swords with the Hollywood Mob.

Peter Cushing
by Anthony Ambrogio
Midnight Marquee Press, Inc. is pleased to introduce this volume that begins the "second phase" of Midnight Marquee Press’ acclaimed Actors Series. Having shone the spotlight on those titans of Golden and Silver Age horror (all American by birth or naturalization)—Lugosi, Karloff, Chaney, Jr., Price, and Lorre—Midnight Marquee now ventures into the Iron Age of Hammer (and British horror) with a collection examining the work of Peter Cushing.

Hell Hath No Fury Like Her: The Making of Christine
by Lee Gambin
Packed with interviews from director John Carpenter, screenwriter Bill Phillips, producer Richard Kobritz, stars Keith Gordon and Alexandra Paul, plus various members of the cast and crew including co-composer Alan Howarth and SFX artist Roy Arbogast, “Hell Hath No Fury: The Making of Christine” is a definitive look at the 1983 cinematic adaptation of Stephen King’s terrifying novel about the eponymous demonic Plymouth Fury and the obsessive teenage boy who loves her.


If any of these books trip your trigger, find out more at:

http://www.bearmanormedia.com/

"I Travel With Aliens" Travel Mug!

For those of you into traveling with aliens, check out Wes Britton's new "I Travel With Aliens" travel mug. Very cool, very snazzy, very durable.
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A Brand-New Review of The Blind Alien!

A Very Impressive Sci-Fi Story
May 2, 2019
I can not express enough how original and imaginative The Blind Alien is. The way the narrative weaves between different voices is completely flawless,
and never once did I feel that it was just another story told by the same narrator. Each piece is unique and complex in it's own way, a feat that's hard
to master.

Science Fiction / Fish out of Water stories have never been my strength, but after reading "The Beta Earth Chronicles" by Dr. Britton, I needed to find
out more about this world. Science Fiction often gets wrapped up in its own babble and self-importance, which I never once got from this. Malcolm is a
great, strong, sometimes flawed, and perfectly reasonable protagonist. He acts believably, and deals with things in a very human way once he's robbed of
his sight and whisked away to another world. He's a great lead and a fantastic character to hang an entrance into this mythology around.

A first-class story told in an ingenious way. I look forward more!

Originally posted at:
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Alien mugs, pendents, oh my!

The snazzy hot-off-the-press Alien Vision "Join the Tribe" necklace/pendent is now available from Gearbubble for only $9.95! Check it out and let me know what you think!
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We are now also offering a new travel mug that says "I Travel With Aliens", front and back. Same font as the necklace. The price is $12.95!
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And you can still get your own "Alien Vision" coffee mugs here:
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So join the tribe traveling across the multi-verse!

Bela Lugosi and horror movie books

BearManor Media Announces a new book for horror film fans:




Bela Lugosi & The Monogram 9
By Gary D. Rhodes and Robert Guffey

Between 1941 and 1944, Bela Lugosi starred in a series of low-budget films released by Monogram Pictures. To many viewers at the time and during the decades that followed, the “Monogram Nine” were overacted and underproduced, illogical and incoherent. But their increasing age has recast such condemnations into appropriate praise: in the 21st century, they seem so different not only from modern cinema, but also from Classical Hollywood, enough so as to make the aforementioned deficits into advantages. The entries in the Monogram Nine are bizarre and strange, populated by crazy, larger-than-life characters who exist in wacky, alternative worlds. In nine films, the improbable chases the impossible. This book, in turn, chases them.

“Gary Rhodes has become my favorite nonfiction author, while the subject of some of his writings, Bela Lugosi, has long been one of my favorite actors. Now Gary has teamed up with co-author Robert Guffey to present, for the first time, a collection of in-depth and insightful essays evaluating those lesser ‘classics’ that comprise the so-called ‘Monogram Nine.’ If you are a Lugosi fan and also a fan of old ‘B’ horror films, you will love this book.” – Donald F. Glut, filmmaker, Marvel Comics writer, and author of The Empire Strikes Back novelization

“An extraordinary volume. Rhodes and Guffey refract these films through the lens of surrealism, detailed genre study, auteurist-informed close readings, star studies, and vigorous historicism to name a few of the kaleidoscope of methods employed. This book provides a breakthrough model for serious work on films that have to date received very little scholarly attention.” – Michael Lee, Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma), editor at the journal Horror Studies

Learn more at:
http://www.bearmanormedia.com/bela-lu...

Other horror titles you might enjoy:

Bela Lugosi in Person
by Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger
The latest in a series of books by researchers extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger, Bela Lugosi in Person brims with new facts,figures, and never-seen photos documenting the actor’s scores of live public performances from 1931 to 1945, the era of his greatest fame. Three-act plays, vaudeville sketches, variety shows, and personal appearances are all chronicled at length, bringing new perspective to Lugosi’s life and career.

Robert Florey's Frankenstein starring Bela Lugosi
by Philip J. Riley
With the success of Dracula, starring Bela Lugosi, Universal Pictures was quick to capitalize on creating a new Lon Chaney in Bela Lugosi. Chaney had been the original choice to portray a duel role as both Dracula and Professor van Helsing, Dracula's adversary. Before production could begin, Chaney died, suddenly leaving Carl Laemmle Jr. without a star.

No Traveler Returns: The Lost Years of Bela Lugosi
by Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger
In No Traveler Returns, Bela Lugosi scholar extraordinaire Gary D. Rhodes and Bill Kaffenberger provide a fascinating time travel journey back to the late 1940s/early 1950s, when Lugosi – largely out of favor in Hollywood – embarked on a Gypsy-like existence of vaudeville, summer stock, and magic shows.

Scripts from the Crypt: Ed Wood and the Lost Lugosi Screenplays
by Gary D. Rhodes, Tom Weaver, Robert Cremer, and Lee R. Harris
With trowel and brush in hand, noted film archaeologist Gary D. Rhodes excavates the cinematic sepulcher of Ed Wood's unproduced scripts for Bela Lugosi, The Vampire's Tomb and The Ghoul Goes West. Joining Rhodes on the expedition are pith-helmeted horror movie expert Tom Weaver, plus Lugosi's original biographer Robert Cremer.

The Classic Horrors Club Podcast:
EP 30: The Dr. Phibes Companion

Check out this interview with Justin Humphries, author of The Dr. Phibes Companion on The Classic Horrors Club Podcast.

Click here for Podcast:
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