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September 10, 2012
PULP NOW: SUSPENSE, SUSPICION AND SHOCKERS!
PULP NOW: SUSPENSE, SUSPICION AND SHOCKERS!THE STORIES OF CHARLES BOECKMAN ~ VOLUME 1
STUNNING COVER BY LAURA GIVENS
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From Vintage Pulps to Hitchcock Jump aboard for a fascinating ride as you flip through the pages of 24 tales of Suspense, Suspicion, and Shockers, by none other than Charles Boeckman.
Writing as Charles Beckman, Jr., starting in 1945, he whipped out stories that mislead, conceal, and surprise, with characters so real they jump off the page. His stories have such raw emotional appeal that some will make you cringe, some will make you shudder, some will grip you with their suspense, but all will make you feel.
You'll meet gritty characters to love and hate, dames to put on a pedestal and some you'd like to choke, loyal friends and scoundrels, loveable dimwits and cunning backstabbers, deadly rattlesnakes, dangerous situations, and plots that keep you turning the page.
In his stories with a musical background, you'll feel the beat of the music taken from the pages of Boeckman's own life experiences as a horn man.
If you like vintage pulp detective, crime, and suspense stories, this is the right book for you. If you like Alfred Hitchcock suspense and surprise endings, this is the right book for you. If you just plain like to read, this is also the right book for you. What's not to like about such stories? They are so much fun!
September 9, 2012
CRIME FACTORY 11 INTERVIEWS FIGHT CARD AUTHORS!
CRIME FACTORY 11 INTERVIEWS FIGHT CARD AUTHORS!
Crime Factory 11 is live ... and amid its blood stained pages you'll find an interview with Figth Card authors Paul Bishop, Eric Beetner and Mel Odom, where they talk about Boxing Pulps and Fight Fiction with fellow Fight Card author David Foster ... this should be of interest to all fans of the Fight Card series.
PULP NOW: BEAT TO A PULP ~ SUPERHERO!
PULP NOW: BEAT TO A PULP ~ SUPERHERO!EDITOR: DAVID CRANMER
KINDLE EDITION ~ 99¢
What makes a superhero? Someone with special powers ... Ordinary people doing good deeds ... Anyone with sophisticated technological gadgets and incredible agility?
Superheroes can spring up from the most unexpected people in the most unusual places, and Beat To A Pulp: Superhero has gathered some of the best hardboiled and noir crime stories with a superhero bend. Billy Mitchell, the six-year-old "Red Avenger" in Kevin Burton Smith's tale, has an innocence and a special something that draws us to want to don a mask and tie a towel around our necks.
Steve Weddle dissects the reality of a world in which super-powered "others" walk in the midst of normal people who tend to quote only parts of the Bible. And James Reasoner's story is set in a time not usually associated with superheroes – the American Revolution – yet Patrick Mainwaring finds the classic essence of a superhero.
Other top contributors include Jake Hinkson, Garnett Elliott, Liam Jose, Sandra Seamans, Jerry Bloomfield, Thomas Pluck, Keith Rawson, Court Merrigan, Benoit Lelievre, and Chad Eagleton.
If you like the work of Frank Miller or the recent Dark Knight films directed by Christopher Nolan, then you'll enjoy the grit of these thirteen tales in Beat To A Pulp: Superhero.
HARDBOILED CORNER: BOMBSHELL!
HARDBOILED CORNER: BOMBSHELL!MIKE FARICY
KINDLE EDITION ~ $2.99
Dysfunctional, bumbling, crazy babe-magnet Dev Haskell, P.I., becomes the envy of every guy with a heart beat when he's hired to watch over a team of gorgeous English roller derby stars.
Though he'd rather be standing guard in the shower room, he suddenly finds himself under arrest and found guilty before he's even charged. He's got an attorney who drinks too much, a beautiful friend with a bad attitude, a feisty team of females ready to kill him – and no answers.
Bombshell is another fast-paced, engrossing suspense thriller from Minnesota's master of the bizarre, Mike Faricy ...
September 8, 2012
FIGHT CARD: ★ COMING SOON! ★
FIGHT CARD: ★ COMING SOON! ★ 
FIGHT CARD: GOLDEN GATE GLOVES . . . OCTOBER 2012
FIGHT CARD: THE KNOCKOUT . . . NOVEMBER 2012
FIGHT CARD: IRISH DUKES . . . DECEMBER 2012
PULP NOW: BLOOD AND TACOS #3!
PULP NOW: BLOOD AND TACOS #3!EDITOR: JOHNNY SHAW
99¢ FOR YOUR KINDLE ...
Welcome back! CGP is very pleased to present another issue of blood and guts, mayhem and ... tacos.
Blood And Tacos 3 includes a schwack of fist-pumping fiction from the legendary Stephen Mertz, along with Garnett Elliott, Todd Robinson, Chris La Tray and Rob Kroese. Like you couldn't have read that on the cover.
We're also featuring a great article this month on the Cannon studio and four exemplary films from same and reviewing Doomsday Warrior (specifically book 9). Finally, have a look at our new feature, Cooking Like a Tough Guy.
Blood And Tacos is the brainchild of Johnny Shaw, screenwriter and author of the novel Dove Season: A Jimmy Veeder Fiasco. When he’s not writing or teaching, he is usually in an undisclosed warzone working as the demolitions expert in the mercenary group, The Bushmasters. He also enjoys badminton. His website can be found at www.Johnnyshaw.net. Or follow him on Twitter@BloodandTacos.
September 4, 2012
PULP NOW: THE SAINT #0!
PULP NOW: THE SAINT #0!NEW FROM MOONSTONE
STORY: LESLIE CHARTERIS, MEL ODOM
ART: EDUARDO BARRETO
The first new Saint comic book in America in over 60 years!
Soon to be a major television show!
The Robin Hood of modern crime returns!
He robs from the evil and heartless rich, and gives to the wronged and deserving poor – in the process, keeping a percentage for his own expenses. He doesn't work for the law, the government, or anyone else.
He is a lone wolf ... an adventurer, a detective, a rogue, but always ... a gentleman!
In “The Sizzling Saboteur,” The Saint travels to Texas in pursuit of a man who has been sabotaging weapons factories, but when his quarry turns up burned to crisp, he has to contend with both the local police, a trio of mysterious men behind the sabotage, and a beautiful Russian.
This issue is a preview of the upcoming graphic novel, and it will be the only time this story will be seen in color, so get it while it’s hot!
16PAGES, COLOR, $1.99
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September 2, 2012
FIGHT CARD'S HEATH LOWRANCE GLOVES UP!
FIGHT CARD'S HEATH LOWRANCE GLOVES UP!THE JUST RELEASED FIGHT CARD: BLUFF CITY BRAWLER IS ANOTHER HARD-PUNCHING TALE. THIS TIME, THE WRITER BEHIND THE JACK TUNNEY PSEUDONYM – POUNDING ON HIS BATTERED, HARDBOILED TYPEWRITER – IS HEATH LOWRANCE, WHO NOW GIVES US HIS TAKE ON THE FIGHT CARD SERIES . . .
HEATH LOWRANCE GLOVES UP!I’m not a big sports fan. When I pop up to the liquor store for a pack’a smokes and the clerk says, “Hey, you catch the game last night?” I can only smile and say, “No, man, I missed it”—while thinking, Game? What game? It’s just not anything I care about. Except for boxing.
Yeah. Boxing. Now, that’s a sport, friends. Mano-a-mano, as they say. It’s probably because I’ve never really been what you call a “team player”. Makes it hard to get interested in team sports. But boxing, the sweet science, is all about two men facing off, each with their own set of skills, not relying on anyone else. It’s a testament of endurance, wit, speed, strength. How can someone not be interested in watching that?
I came to the world of reading fight stories late in life. Like many readers, my first experience with the sub-genre was Robert E. Howard, a writer I adore with a passion bordering on obsessive geekiness. Growing up, I’d read all his Conan stuff, his Solomon Kane stories, his Lovecraftian horror, anything I could find. So, I was elated a few years ago when Wildside Press started putting out Howard’s lesser-known stuff—among them a nice collection of his best fight stories, Waterfront Fists And Others. In my 40’s by that time, I devoured those stories with as much enthusiasm as my 14-year-old self had devoured the Conan tales.
Since then, I’ve read a lot of Jack London’s great boxing stories as well, but most of my reading in the sub-genre has been through the excellent Fight Card series. I’m happy to tell you, this terrific series lives up to the high standards set by Howard and London.
And I’ve learned a great deal from them. Each writer who has taken on the mantle of Jack Tunney is an expert at delivering fast-paced, exciting stories centered around the ring. Each one knows how to keep the story barreling along in the best pulp tradition, and each one gives us fight sequences and action scenes that are sharp, clear and thrilling.
I was pleased to be given the opportunity to be Jack Tunney. My fight story is called Bluff City Brawler. It’s a man-on-the-run story, with lots of ring action, lots of suspense, and, hopefully, some characters you can get behind. It’s a fight story, that’s what it is. Because, honestly, could you see reading a story about any other kind of sport other than boxing? I couldn’t.
FIGHT CARD: BLUFF CITY BRAWLER
Tom Riley makes a meager living in the ring in Detroit, but it’s good enough for him. He ain’t ambitious. A few bucks and a rather high opinion of himself are all he needs.
But when he accidentally kills a connected mobster, he’s forced on the lam and winds up in Memphis—the Bluff City—where, he struggles to make a new life for himself. But his past mistakes are about to catch up to him, in spades. The Detroit Mob is closing in, and Tom’s future is about to be decided in blood—and in the ring.
Bluff City Brawler—Another rousing novel in the Fight Card series!
HEATH LOWRANCE
Heath Lowrance is the author of the novels City Of Heretics, from Snubnose Press, and The Bastard Hand, from New Pulp Press. His collection of short stories, Dig Ten Graves, is also available at Amazon.com, as are his Hawthorne series of weird western stories and a straight Western called Miles to Little Ridge. His other stories have appeared at Crime Factory, Shotgun Honey, Chi-Zine, Pulp Metal, and other places. He’s been a movie theater manager, a tour guide at Sun Studio, a singer in a punk band, and a regular donor of blood for money. He lives in Lansing, Michigan, and can be found blogging at http://psychonoir.blogspot.com
