I love to read. I have ever since I was very small. I startled my parents when I started reading the milk cartons and cereal boxes aloud when I was in pre-school. I love it when a book sweeps me up and takes me wherever it is set. The genre doesn’t matter – fiction/nonfiction, history/memoir,…
ALL PULP REVIEWS by Ron Fortier THE COLD DISH By Craig Johnson Penguins Books 354 pages One of the benefits of writer Craig Johnson’s Walt Longmire mysteries being adapted into a critically well received television series is having the publisher re-issue new editions of the books; to include the very first, “The Cold Dish.” For…
Handler has written for younger readers before: under his pen-name Lemony Snicket, he’s written one long, excellent middle-grade series (A Series of Unfortunate Events) and several one-offs, mostly of those ostensibly for even younger readers than that. But Why We Broke Up is a novel aimed at teenagers, a YA novel rather than a middle-grade,…
Saw my niece Isabel last week. She’s finished The Complete Bone Adventures, Volumes 1 and II and is now reading a collection of Calvin And Hobbes. She also told me that she’s in love with the Percy Jackson And The Olympians series by Rick Riordian; she had already read The Lightning Thief, and was deep…
There seems to be an idea floating about in the ether that my review of John Scalzi’s new novel, Redshirts (posted late yesterday) is negative, and that I don’t like Scalzi’s books. Both are untrue. Redshirts didn’t strike me as laugh-out-loud hilarious, as it has been billed [1], but it’s a pleasant, quick entertainment —…
SuperHero Novels included a nice selection of New Pulp books as part of its Recommended Reads section at http://superheronovels.com/2012/06/30/live-in-the-link-age-07-01-12.
The Official Philip José Farmer Email Hello to everyone on the PJF Mailing list. There is a lot going on right now, but you can check the website and facebook for all those details. This email is just to make sure you are aware of one thing. In the last newsletter (before making this information public online) I told you that…
New Pulp Author, Win Scott Eckert shared the following with All Pulp. Win spoke about this project on Earth Station One Episode 114, which you can listen to here. PRESS RELEASE: The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3 – Now Available for Preorder! Includes my novelette “The Wild Huntsman,” the secret origin of the Wold…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE (June 20, 2012 – Melbourne, FL) Press release: Final Book of The Skinvestigator Trilogy coming this July. The third and final volume of the popular Skinvestigator series is coming out this Summer. Author Terry Cronin has published each novel on a yearly basis in preparation for pre-release at the famous San Diego…
These may not actually be the absolute 10 Worst Book Covers in the History of Literature, but they’re definitely on the shortlist. My favorite is right here: Double Penetrator! Try to tell me that was inadvertent! Just try!
Modern Pulp Heroes and Living Legends debut sale! Metahuman Press and Pulp Empire are celebrating the release of their two newest books with a huge weekend deal! If you buy the print edition of either Modern Pulp Heroes or Living Legends Volume 1: Old Soldiers you can now get any two of our ebook titles…
This is not the kind of book that lends itself to a detailed, in-depth review, but that’s just fine: it’s about what I need on a night when I want to keep up a string of daily review posts but feel too lethargic for overly energetic thinking and typing. (I was up at 5:15 for…
