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PULP NOW: THE VOYAGES OF SINBAD VOL. 2!

PULP NOW: THE VOYAGES OF SINBAD VOL. 2!

THE BLUE NYMPH SETS SAIL

Pull up anchor, cast off the mooring lines and drop the sail, the good ship Blue Nymph is about to set sail for adventure once again with, Sinbad, her famous seafaring captain, at the helm.

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to present the second volume of brand new stories starring the greatest seaman of them all, Sinbad the Sailor and his international crew of daring adventurers. Here are Henri Delacrois, the deadly archer from Gaul, Ralf Gunarson, the strapping young Viking giant, Tishimi Osara, the beautiful female samurai, and, of course, Omar, the irascible first mate. All of them are bound together by their love of action and yearning to explore uncharted lands.

“We released the first volume of this series last year,” said Airship 27 Managing Editor, Ron Fortier. “Reader response was overwhelming, and we soon were getting lots of mail to do more. It’s very clear there are lots of people out there who lovingly remember those old Harryhausen Sinbad movies.”

This volume contains a new novella by Ed Erdelac with short stories by Shelby Vick and Erwin K. Roberts. Capturing the feel of the old cinematic hero developed by the late stop-action animator Ray Harryhausen, the volume features illustrations by Steven Wilcox and a cover by Kevin Johnson with designs by Rob Davis. Over the horizon awaits treasure, beautiful exotic maidens and monsters beyond imagining. Dare you sign aboard with Sinbad El Ari? If so, then battened hatches and have your curved blade ready, heart pounding adventure awaits within these pages.



Airship 27 Productions is one of the leading publishers of the New Pulp Movement, keeping alive the classic pulp literature of the 30s and 40s while producing newer pulp themed titles by today’s brightest writers and artists. The publisher now offers sixty novels and anthologies, and all titles are available digitally via Amazon’s Kindle as well as at several other outlets. Some are available as e-books. 

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PULP NOW: JERRY TRACY, CELEBRITY REPORTER!

PULP NOW: JERRY TRACY, CELEBRITY REPORTER! 

COMING SOON FROM MYSTERIOUSPRESS.COM AND OPEN ROAD MEDIA ...

Black Mask magazine, launched in 1920, built its reputation on fostering, and later inspiring, some of mystery’s most beloved hardboiled writers, including Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Carroll John Daly, Theodore A. Tinsley, and Paul Cain. 

These tough, grim, but ultimately noble stories of private eyes and crooks represent an extremely powerful slice of American fiction. Mysteriouspress.com/Open Road Media is thrilled to announce that Black Mask stories will be available in digital format beginning August 27, 2013. 

Paying homage to the original magazine, stories will be released monthly, commencing with works by Black Mask masters Norbert Davis, Steve Fisher, and Paul Cain, as well as an omnibus of stories by Theodore A. Tinsley, Jerry Tracy, Celebrity Reporter. All works feature new cover art, as well as brand-new introductions. 

JERRY TRACY, CELEBRITY REPORTER

Manhattan’s sharpest gossip columnist tangles with brawlers, triggermen, and dames ...

The most important people in the world come to Broadway—to eat in restaurants, dance in nightclubs, and die in rain-slicked back alleys. Whatever the big names are doing, Jerry Tracy hears about it—and tells the world in his infamous Daily Planet column. As quick with his typewriter as he is with a .45, Tracy can break a nose as easily as he breaks a news story. But beneath his hard exterior, this columnist has a kind heart, and a sense of justice that will make him do crazy things for a woman in trouble, or a friend with a murder rap hanging over his head.

Featuring every Jerry Tracy story ever published in Black Mask, this collection is an invaluable compendium of one of early noir’s most original heroes. Written in machine gun prose that would make Damon Runyon proud, these stories describe a man whose words are tough—and whose fists are even tougher.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Theodore A. Tinsley (1894–1979) was a prolific noir author who wrote for all of the prominent pulp magazines, including Black Mask, Munsey’s Magazine, All Detective Magazine, and Action Stories. His best-known creations are Carrie Cashin, a private eye who became pulp fiction’s most popular female character, and Jerry Tracy, a gossip reporter with a nose for sniffing out murders.

NOW AVAILABLE ~ FIGHT CARD: CAN'T MISS CONTENDER!

NOW AVAILABLE ~ FIGHT CARD: CAN'T MISS CONTENDER!

FIGHT CARD: CAN’T MISS CONTENDER JUST WENT LIVE ON AMAZON.  BEHIND THE JACK TUNNEY PSEUDONYM THIS MONTH IS KEVIN MICHAELS.  FIGHT CARD: CAN’T MISS CONTENDER IS KEVIN’S SECOND FIGHT CARD FISTICUFF.  THIS PUTS HIM IN GOOD COMPANY WITH DAVID FOSTER AND ERIC BEETNER, WHO HAVE BOTH WRITTEN TWO EPIC PUNCH-UPS IN THE FIGHT CARD SERIES.

WHILE FIGHT CARD: CAN’T MISS CONTENDER IS NOT A DIRECT SEQUEL TO KEVIN’S FIGHT CARD: HARD ROAD, THERE IS SOME MINOR CHARACTER CROSSOVER.
 
FIGHT CARD: CAN’T MISS CONTENDER
St. Louis, Missouri, 1958
Billy Flood was the kind of boxer who had ‘can’t miss’ written all over him.  He had the tools and talent to make him a middleweight champion.  But a few wrong turns changed everything.  Now, after a hard three year stretch inside the Missouri State Penitentiary, Billy is determined to get back in the ring and punch his way to the top. But, while other fighters his age have risen through the ranks, Billy is back where he started – fighting palookas, catchers, and tomato cans.
With his past on his heels and his future filled with obstacles, Billy finds himself backed into a corner by false friends and an unscrupulous promoter.  He may get his shot at becoming a contender, but will it cost him his future?  Can’t Miss Contender is another hard punching Fight Card tale ... KEVIN MICHAELS
Writer, surfer, badass, Kevin Michaels is everything New Jersey – Attitude, edginess, and Bruce Springsteen songs. Author of the novels Lost Exit and Fight Card: Hard Road, his short stories No Tears For Crying, and Who’s got The Actionwere both nominated for the prestigious Pushcart Prize. 

THE TROUBLE WITH BLONDES!

 THE DEADLY BLONDE WENCH OF WAIKIKI

COMING SOON!

COMING SOON ... FIGHT CARD: CAN'T MISS CONTENDER FROM KEVIN MICHAELS WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY ... COVER BY DAVID FOSTER ...

HONEY WEST AND T.H.E CAT: A GIRL AND HER CAT!

HONEY WEST AND T.H.E CAT: A GIRL AND HER CAT!

COVER ART TEASER ... INITIAL CONCEPT SKETCH BY DOUG KLAUBA ...

It’s Honey West and T.H.E Cat, in the first new Honey West novel in over 40 years, A Girl and Her Cat! Following on the heels of the first ever Honey West/T.H.E Cat crossover comic, Moonstone's "Death in the Desert," comes the Honey West/T.H.E Cat novel, A Girl and Her Cat ...

When an exotic green-eyed Asian doctor hires Honey to recover a stolen sample of a new Rubella vaccine from a rival scientist, the blonde bombshell private eye—suspicious but bored—takes the case. But after she’s attacked not once, but twice, on her way from Long Beach to San Francisco to track down her quarry, she knows there’s more—much more—to her femme fatale client than meets the eye.

Along the way, Honey’s one-time paramour Johnny Doom (ex-bounty hunter and current Company agent) reenters the picture, and the gorgeous doctor’s insidious, and deadly, grandfather deals himself in. But when Honey questions whether Johnny’s playing her game, or just playing her for a patsy, she joins forces — as only Honey can — with the one man in Frisco who can help her recover the stolen vaccine-cum-bioweapon and prevent worldwide genocide by germ-warfare ... former cat burglar-turned-bodyguard Thomas Hewitt Edward Cat ... Otherwise known as, T.H.E Cat! 

Join writers Win Scott Eckert and Matthew Baugh, and cover artist Douglas Klauba, for A Girl and Her Cat, a groovy, racy 1960s romp coming soon from Moonstone!

PULP NOW: PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL!

PULP NOW: PAPERBACK CONFIDENTIAL! 

CRIME WRITERS OF THE PAPERBACK ERA ~ ARRIVING IN BOOK STORES JULY 30!

This book contains over 130 profiles "of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s. Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Cornell Woolrich... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson."

These are the authors who turned out the dark noirs and hardboiled thrillers, private detective puzzles and psychological suspense, police procedurals and backwood melodramas, stories of passion... and cold-blooded murder. 132 profiles of the men and women who wrote the books that became the backbone of the Pulp and Paperback Era from the 1930s through the 1960s.

Here you will find information on the acknowledged masters like Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, James M. Cain and Cornell Woolrich... the rack mainstays like Gil Brewer, Brett Halliday, Day Keene, and Charles Williams... and the unjustly forgotten like Malcolm Braly, Elisabeth Sanxay Holding, Ennis Willie and Douglas Sanderson. Each profile contains details about the author's life and explores key works, with special attention paid to series characters.

Also covered are screenplay and teleplay work, as well as movies based on the authors' stories.

Paperback Confidential also includes a handy PseudoDex with all the various names these authors wrote under, and a section for each author with further recommendations for the reader's consideration.

PULP NOW: THE BLOOD 'N' THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION!

PULP NOW: THE BLOOD 'N' THUNDER GUIDE TO PULP FICTION!

NOW AVAILABLE! 

The long-awaited Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction, many months in preparation, is now available from Murania Press.

A greatly revised and expanded version of 2007’s Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Collecting Pulps, this massive new book has been positioned as more of a reference work than a mere manual for hobbyists. It’s a complete history of the pulp magazine (told in more detail than ever attempted by a single author) wrapped up in one-volume. Its 2007 predecessor had 226 pages and close to 400 pulp-cover reproductions. The new Guide to Pulp Fiction has 414 pages and 700 cover repros, along with a smattering of original cover paintings.

Chapters from the old Guide have been extensively reworked. New chapters have been added on Spicy pulps, sports pulps, love pulps, and war-and-aviation pulps. Also, two new appendices have been created for pulp-fiction readers who don’t collect the vintage magazines. One appendix gives basic information on the best small-press reprint publishers, while the other lists the most important anthologies of pulp stories in various genres.

The Blood ‘n’ Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction is priced at $29.95, which includes shipping to domestic U.S. buyers. However, Murania Press is also making the book available at a 20 percent discount to anybody who purchases it along with a one-year subscription to Blood ‘n’ Thunder. This special offer has its own page on the Murania Press site and is available to those who renew or extend their subscriptions as well.

Don’t miss out on what some fans are already calling 2013’s must-have book. Visit the Murania Press web site today at the link below.

414 PAGES / 7X10 TRADE PAPERBACK / $29.95

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PULP NOW: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE & KENNEDY!

PULP NOW: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE AND KENNEDY!

WRITTEN BY PULP MASTER FREDERICK NEBEL ... FROM ALTUS PRESS ... VIA THE PAGES OF BLACK MASK ... COMING THIS FALL ... ONE TITLE EVERY MONTH!

RAW LAW: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE AND KENNEDY VOLUME 1: 1928-30

This is Black Mask at its best—slam-bang action, crackling dialogue and the keenest wit this side of Dashiell Hammett. Frederick Nebel was a master of the hardboiled school, and the nine-year saga of Captain Steve MacBride and Kennedy of the Free Press was his finest body of work. This first of four volumes presents the first nine novelettes, complete with the original illustrations by Arthur Rodman Bowker, and a new introduction by Evan Lewis. Hold onto your seat. It’s going to be a wild ride.

SHAKE-DOWN: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE AND KENNEDY VOLUME 2: 1930-33

Wise Guy (April, 1930)
Shake-Down (July, 1930)
Ten Men from Chicago (August, 1930)
Junk (March, 1931)
Beat the Rap (May, 1931)
Death for a Dago (July, 1931)
Some Die Young (December, 1931)
The Quick or the Dead (March, 1932)
Backwash (May, 1932)
Doors in the Dark (February, 1933)

TOO YOUNG TO DIE: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE AND KENNEDY VOLUME 3: 1933-35

Rough Reform (March, 1933)
Farewell to Crime (April, 1933)
Guns Down (September, 1933)
Lay Down the Law (November, 1933)
Too Young to Die (February, 1934)
Bad News (March, 1934)
Take It and Like It (June, 1934)
Be Your Age (August, 1934)
He Was a Swell Guy (January, 1935)
It’s a Gag (February, 1935)

WINTER KILL: THE COMPLETE CASES OF MACBRIDE AND KENNEDY VOLUME 4: 1935-36

That’s Kennedy (May, 1935)
Die-Hard (August, 1935)
Winter Kill (November, 1935)
Fan Dance (January, 1936)
No Hard Feelings (February, 1936)
Crack Down (April, 1936)
Hard to Take (June, 1936)
Deep Red (August, 1936)

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FIGHT STORIES, SEPTEMBER 1930!

FIGHT STORIES, SEPTEMBER 1930!

PULP AND DIGEST REPLICAS ~ NOW AVAILABLE FROM JERRY SCHNEIDER ENTERPRISES

CONTENTS: 

WATERFRONT FISTS BY ROBERT E. HOWARD
SONS OF SOCK BY PAUL L. ANDERSON
SOCKER DOOLEY, FIGHTING GOLFER BY CHARLES FRANCIS COE
SAY IT WITH HAYMAKERS BY JOSEPH B. FOXNO BELL TO SAVE HIM BY WILL H. GREENFIELDFIGHTERS ALL BY ARTHUR J. BURKSAND FACT STORIES BY JIMMY DE FOREST, JAMES P. DAWSON, AND JACK KOFOED  8.5 X 11, 130 PAGES, $15.00 FOR MORE INFO CLICK HERE