With the final volume currently on Kickstarter, I had a chance to talk to Brian Schrimer and Jeremy Saliba about Ultrasylvania – a comic series crafted in the classroom. Joshua Pantalleresco: How did Ultrasylvania came to be? Brian Schrimer: I was traveling in Europe in 2011, making any notes of things that crossed my mind…
I’ve often maintained that the best fantasies are ones that have one foot firmly set in reality. We need something to which we can relate. We are asked to enter into a “willing suspension of disbelief,” as coined by the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge. However impossible or implausible in reality an event in literature is,…
This week on PULPED!, Tommy Hancock welcomes Richard C. White. A creator of original characters as well as a media tie-in writer, Richard discusses his brush with two pretty significant fictional universes, the ins and outs of media tie in writing, his love for the Pulps, and how all that and more brought him to…
New Pulp Author Bobby Nash was interviewed at the Authors to Watch website. Bobby and interviewer, Tricia chatted about the writing process as well as spent some time discussing Bobby’s Evil Ways novel from BEN Books and Moonstone Books’ The Spider: Extreme Prejudice anthology. You can read the entire interview here.
COMMUNITY fans know him as the offbeat Dean, but Jim Rash is also an Oscar winner writer and the perfect host for The Sundance Channel‘s new series, THE WRITERS ROOM. Jim talks about the plans he has for showcasing the talents behind series like DEXTER, GAME OF THRONES & more. Plus we invite you to…
Our friends at Fight Card shared this sneak peek at the cover of their upcoming release. COMING SOON… FIGHT CARD: CAN’T MISS CONTENDER FROM KEVIN MICHAELS WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY… Learn more about Fight Card Books here.
I didn’t know that writer blockitis was catching, but it must be, because just like my buddy and fellow columnist John Ostrander, I seem to be suffering from the same ailment today. Signs and symptoms include sluggishness, an inability to form ideas, a lack of imagination, a desire to smash the computer, great interest in…
This is what a deadline looks like on writer’s block. Nothin’. I got nothin’. Lots of stuff has happened this week, lots of stuff happened in the pop arts, there are sure to be lots of topics from which to choose, something must interest me enough to blather about for the length of a column…
Plenty of individual panels have been freeze-framed in my head all afternoon, but none of them have led to any kind of sequential storytelling. This is the worst part of being a writer with a weekly column – watching the hands on the clock inexorably winding down to zero hour, the time by which I…
As a student at Rutgers, FDU and Wroxton College in the U.K., I often competed for writing scholarships. The awards proved invaluable on numerous levels: 1) As an amateur/student, I was forced to bring my writing to the highest possible level, at that juncture in my development, without any assistance. 2) I learned to meet…
The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers has announced the nominees for the 2013 Scribe Awards for excellence in media tie-in writing. FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE The International Association of Media Tie-In Writers is pleased to announce the Scribe Award nominees for 2013. Acknowledging excellence in this very specific skill, IAMTW’s Scribe Awards deal exclusively with…
Nash thinks he smells something pulpy. New Pulp Author Bobby Nash joined hosts David Wood and Alan Baxter on the latest episode of the ThrillerCast- The Podcast for Readers and Writers of Thrillers podcast. They talked about writing in general and also discuss the New Pulp book market and look into the definitions of pulp…
