NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2016 PULP ARK NEW PULP AWARDS!

The Pulp Ark Awards Have Returned!

NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2016 PULP ARK NEW PULP AWARDS!

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The Pulp Ark New Pulp Awards 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-
NOMINATIONS NOW OPEN FOR 2016 PULP ARK NEW PULP AWARDS!

Pulp Ark, a convention focusing on New Pulp Fiction and Culture, was held from 2011 to 2013. In 2015, Pulp Ark returned as a major component of the River City Comic Expo in Little Rock, AR. A primary part of Pulp Ark for its first three years were The Pulp Ark Awards, fan voted awards for Genre Fiction defined as New Pulp.

According to Tommy Hancock, founder and coordinator of Pulp Ark and the Awards, The Pulp Ark New Pulp Awards are continuing in 2016 and will be awarded at the River City Comic Expo June 11-12, 2016 in Little Rock, AR.

“It feels right,” says Hancock, “to return the Awards to their association with Pulp Ark, especially with the successful return of the convention in a slightly new form in 2015. We’ve reviewed the slate of awards given in the past and have reduced the number for a variety of reasons, and although we may add removed awards back or even new categories at a later date, we feel like the awards offered are comprehensive for the state of New Pulp today. Pulp Ark was conceived to bring the best and brightest creators to the public’s attention and the Awards proved then and will again prove to be one of the best possible ways to do just that.”

Nominations for the 2016 Pulp Ark New Pulp Awards are now open and will close at 5 PM CST on February 1, 2016. Anyone can nominate in any of the available categories for work that was published in 2015, either in print, ebook form, or in an established internet venue, such as an e-magazine. Postings on personal blogs do not qualify.

All nominations that are made that fit the qualifications of New Pulp will be placed on the final ballot, regardless of the number of nominations any one work or individual receives. NO CREATOR MAY NOMINATE HIM/HERSELF OR HIS/HER WORK FOR A PULP ARK NEW PULP AWARD. Publishers may, however, nominate works from their own publishing houses as long as the Publisher is not a writer or artist involved in the nominated work. This is also a change from previous years.

To determine if a work or creator qualifies for these awards the definition for works that qualify is as follows-New Pulp is fast-paced, plot-oriented storytelling of a linear nature with clearly defined, larger than life protagonists and antagonists, creative descriptions, clever use of turns of phrase and other aspects of writing that add to the intensity and pacing of the story.

Hancock also states, “Every year we held the awards, we received nominations that, due to the subjective way that New Pulp is defined, might be questionable in terms of qualifying as New Pulp. As we have done in the past with the Awards, there will be a selected committee of 4-5 New Pulp creators who will, when such questions arise, be consulted to determine inclusion of said work as a nomination.”

The only works eligible for the 2016 New Pulp Awards are those produced between January 1, 2015 and December 31, 2015. Anyone can make a nomination and anyone that makes a nomination will receive a ballot on February 2nd and voting will be open until 5 PM CST on February 17, 2016. Also, ballots will be posted on the Pulp Ark New Pulp Awards 2016 Facebook page and available for anyone who wishes to cut and paste and email the ballot to PulpArkNewPulpAwards2016@yahoo.com. Each ballot must contain a link to a Facebook page, a Twitter account, an email profile, or some other verifiable source by which the identity of the voter can be affirmed.

In the past, the Pulp Ark Awards were physical plaques presented to each winner. The final form of the 2016 Awards has not be determined at this point, but a physical award of some sort will be given to each winner.

The Categories open for Nomination until 5 PM CST February 1, 2016, are as follows.

Only One Nomination allowed per person per category in-

1. Best Novel (This includes E-books as well as print books and length must be 40,000 + words)

2. Best Collection/Anthology (This includes single author story collections and multi- author anthologies. This includes E-publications as well as print books)

3. Best short story (this includes stories that appear in short story collections, anthologies, magazines, and e magazines. If from an e-mag, the story must appear on a site identified as an e-magazine, not simply be posted on a site or blog. It includes e-publications as well as traditionally printed works. Length must be 17,500 words or less.)

4. Best Novella (this includes stories that appear in short story collections, anthologies, magazines, and e magazines. If from an e-mag, the story must appear on a site identified as an e-magazine, not simply be posted on a site or blog. It includes e-publications as well as traditionally printed works. Length must be 17,500- 40,000 words)

5. Best Cover-(This is restricted to prose book publications, including e-books)

6. Best Artist (This reward refers to the artist only and any artist with work published in New Pulp works, including novels, short stories, magazines, e-publications, and covers or interiors as well, in 2015 is eligible).

7. Best Author (This reward refers to the author and any author with work published in 2015 is eligible, including novels, short stories, etc. This includes e-publications as well).

8. Best New Writer (To be nominated, a writer must have been published for the first time in the pulp field in the calendar year of 2015. This includes e-publications as well).

Send all nominations or any questions to pulparknewpulpawards2016@yahoo.com.

RUBY FILES CREATORS GET PULPED!

Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor with their 2013 Pulp Ark Awards.

For the first time since the Pulp Ark Award winners were announced, Ruby Files co-creators Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor got to hold their Pulp Ark Award for Best New Pulp Character: Rick Ruby at the Free Comic Book day event at galactic Quest Comics in Buford, GA.

Congratulations to Bobby and Sean.

Bobby's award: Best Author

Rick Ruby's creators.

Best New Pulp Character: Rick Ruby

Earth Station One Episode 161 – 2013 Summer Movie Preview

This weekend, the race to box office supremacy begins! Mike Faber, Mike Gordon, award-winning author Bobby Nash, Box Office Buzz scribe Ashley Bergner, and 7th Row Center podcaster Alex Autrey survey the highs and lows of the upcoming summer movie season. However, Alex’s magic movie 8-ball cannot help him in The Geek Seat! Plus, Tara Lynne returns to the station to tell tales of the Ice & Fire Con this past weekend. All this, and the usual Rants, Raves, Khan Report, and Shout Outs! Plus, Bobby gives a report from the Pulp Ark Convention.

Join us for yet another episode of The Earth Station One Podcast we like to call: 2013 Summer Movie Preview at www.esopodcast.com

Direct link: http://erthstationone.wordpress.com/2013/05/02/earth-station-one-episode-161-2013-summer-movie-preview/

PULP AND COMICS INVADE EARTH STATION ONE

This week, Earth station One podcast hosts Mike Faber, Mike Gordon, and the 2013 Pulp Ark Award-Winning Best Author Bobby Nash give the spinner rack a few turns and take a look at some of our favorite non-superhero graphic novels and collected trades – no capes allowed! Joining us for some comic chat are Doctor Q (The Rachet Retrocast), Jason De La Torre (Transmissions from Atlantis), and Josh Wilson (Mad Norwegian Press). We are also joined by New Pulp Author Mark Ellis, who discusses the very superhero-ish team, the Justice Machine. But can they save him from the dreaded fate that is The Geek Seat? Tune in for the answer, plus the usual Rants, Raves, Khan Report, and Shout Outs!

Join us for yet another episode of The Earth Station One Podcast we like to call: Our Favorite Non-Superhero Graphics Novels and Trades at www.esopodcast.com
Direct link: http://erthstationone.wordpress.com/2013/03/13/earth-station-one-episode-154-our-favorite-non-superhero-graphics-novels-and-trades/

ESO's merry hosts: Faber, Nash, Gordon

Next on Earth Station One...

Yo, Joe!!!

Next week, the Earth Station One crew enlists. That’s right, Mike, Mike, and Bobby report for duty as part of America’s highly trained special missions force, known as G.I. Joe. ESO takes down Cobra forces while looking back at the Joes’ history from comic books, the various cartoon series, the conventions, the toys, and the upcoming live action movie starring The Rock and Bruce Willis. Plus, the ESO Khan Report goes on the road to Joelanta, Atlanta’s premier G.I. Joe convention. And if that wasn’t enough, just wait until you see who we strap into The Geek Seat this week. Plus, we’ll have the usual rants, raves, shout outs, and ESO’s Khan Report! It’s going to be another fantastic episode next week at Earth Station One. Now you know.

And knowing is half the battle.

ESO wants to hear from you. What are your favorite G.I. Joe memories from the comics, TV show, movies, or the toys that started it all? Let us know at www.esopodcast.com, Facebook, Twitter, or Google+. We just might tread yours on the show.

COMING IN APRIL: FIGHT CARD MMA!

Our friends over at Fight Card Books shared their latest announcement.

Press Release:

COMING IN APRIL: FIGHT CARD MMA!

Fight Card Publications announces the upcoming April debut of its new series Fight Card MMA, the first of several new expansions of the bestselling Fight Card brand.  Fight Card MMA will take the Fight Card series from the ring to the cage, while delivering ground-and-pound action equal to the exciting fistic pulp action demanded by fans of the monthly Fight Card novels.

Like the original Fight Card novels, the Fight Card MMA tales will be written by many of the best authors working in New Pulp under the series unifying pseudonym, Jack Tunney.

First up in the cage is author Gerard Brennan. His Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagon takes readers deep into the hardscrabble world of Ireland’s burgeoning MMA scene, from dangerous underground battles to the spotlight of the cage.  Brennan has previously won critical acclaim for his hard-hitting novels The Point, Wee Rockets, and Fireproof.

Published simultaneously, Fight Card: The Kalamazoo Kid comes from top MMA author Jeremy Brown.  Brown’s previous MMA themed novels, Suckerpunch and Hook And Shoot – featuring rising MMA star Aaron Woodshed Wallace – have become the benchmark by which all other MMA themed novels are judged. Fight Card: The Kalamazoo Kid is a tightly plotted tale of revenge where every move inside and outside of the cage can be deadly.

Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagon and Fight Card MMA: The Kalamazoo Kid will debut digitally and in print during the Pulp Ark convention to be held April 26-28-2013, in Springdale, AR.

Pulp Ark is one of the nation’s leading popular culture conventions, and will be featuring Fight Card co-creator Paul Bishop as a Guest of Honor.  Pulp Ark will also see the digital and print debut of Fight Card: Swamp Walloper, written by Bishop as a sequel to his first Fight Card novel, Fight Card: Felony Fists.

For more information on Fight Card and Fight Card MMA CLICK HERE.

For more information on Pulp Ark CLICK HERE.

BOSTON BOMBERS TAKE FLIGHT ONCE AGAIN!

Cover Art: Rob Davis

Wild Wolf Entertainment releases a new edition of the 2010 Pulp Ark Award title, Boston Bombers.

Press Release:

BOSTON BOMBERS NEW EDITION

The new Wild Wolf Edition of THE BOSTON BOMBERS is now available at both  Barnes and Noble on-line and Amazon.  This pulp inspired graphic novel was written by Ron Fortier and illustrated by Chris Jones, Bob Cram Jr. and Gary Kato .  The first edition, self-published by Rob Davis’ Redbud Studio won the 2010 Pulp Award for Best Pulp Comic.

THE BOSTON BOMBERS is the story of an alternate world where Jesus was female and accepted as the Messiah by the Jewish people.  Where the last vestiges of the Roman Empire continue to exist in South Africa and the center of the Catholic Church is located in Jerusalem.  After this reality’s World War One, the League of Nations became a military force to maintain peace throughout the globe.

Indra Devine and her all girl team are special agents of the League on a mission to uncover the machinations of the Roman Empire whose quest for world domination is once again being felt.  From politics to religion, from gun battles and giant airships, this epic saga has everything but the kitchen sink.

“I want to thank Sean Collins of Wild Wolf Entertainment for offering up this new edition to what we hope will be a much larger audience,” Fortier applauded enthusiastically.  “This project has always been one of my personal favorites and we continue to sell lots of copies at pulp and comic shows every year.”

THE BOSTON BOMBERS is now available at the following:

Barnes and Noble

Amazon

The Redbud Edition is also still available here.

PAUL BISHOP AND THE SWEET SCIENCE OF PULP

 

Pulp novels covered a wide range of genres. New Pulp Author Paul Bishop is working with a talented crop of writers to bring back the sweet science to pulp. Welcome to Fight Card.

All Pulp recently sat down with Bish to discuss his writing, the Fight Card Series, and all things pulp. Pulpsters, meet Paul Bishop.

AP: Tell us a little about yourself and your pulp interests.

PB: I’ve been voraciously reading pulp stories since my early twenties starting with reprints from the detective story magazines (such as Black Mask), and eventually moving on to the standard hero tales like the Shadow and Doc Savage.  When I started collecting pulps, I found myself drawn to the adventure, sports, and western pulps as they were more affordable and plentiful. 

I got hooked first on collecting copies of Argosy and Adventure – magazines containing tale from the likes of H. Beresford Jones, Talbot Mundy, and the swashbuckling tales of George Challis (Max Brand).  A long run of Street and Smith’s Sport Story was next as I collected tales by Jackson Scholz under his many pseudonyms.  All of this led to Fight Stories Magazine and my fixation and enjoyment of fight fiction, which would eventually inspire the Fight Card series of novelettes I currently write and edit.

AP: How did you get your start as an author?

PB: I broke into writing professionally as a magazine freelancer.  I had some success, eventually making my way from writing for law enforcement related magazines (using my background as a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department as fodder) to top rank markets such as Runners World, Parents Magazine, and Psychology Today. I also worked steadily for several years on the full run of Mystery Magazine from its premiere as a slick, through its transformation to digest sized pulp, to its eventual untimely demise.

However, despite my success with non-fiction, what I really wanted to write was fiction and I was finally able to break in by selling a couple of stories to Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine and a brief revival of The Saint mystery magazine.  It would be another twenty years and a handful of novels later before I was able to crack the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, but I eventually published there as well.

As for novels, I began writing paperback original westerns for Pinnacle Books’ Diamondback series (created by Raymond Obstfeld) under the rather appropriate house name Pike Bishop.  From there, I moved on to my first cop novel, Citadel Run (now retitled Hot Pursuit as an e-book).  Since then there have been ten more novels, a slew of short stories, two-dozen hours of scripted network television, and a feature film – all while staying busy with my LAPD career.

AP: How did the Fight Card series get its start and who is Jack Tunney? What was the appeal of writing boxing stories?

PB: The Fight Card series grew out of a phone conversation with fellow author Mel Odom.  I tracked Mel down after reading a pulp-style boxing story (Smoker) he had published as an e-book on Amazon.  We quickly found common ground in many areas, including a love of the fight pulps and especially the Sailor Steve Costigan boxing stories by Robert E. Howard.  With the advent of e-publishing, we realized we could create new fight stories which could reach and expand the niche audience who would love these stories as much as we did.  The concept of the Fight Card series then took on a life of its own. 

After Mel and I wrote the first two books in the series, Fight Card: Felony Fists (me) and Fight Card: The Cutman (Mel), a number of hot young authors and a few established pros took notice and signed on with the Fight Card team.  We’ll have twelve titles published by the end of 2012 and every one of them is a hard hitting gem.

AP: There seem to be many different opinions about what can be defined as pulp. How do you define pulp and what do you look for in a pulp story as an artist and a reader? Do you consider the Fight Card series books pulp?

PB: The Fight Card novels are definitely in the pulp genre – straight forward, solid, stripped down, slightly larger than life storytelling.  It’s what made the original pulps so popular and accessible to a wide audience.  The New Pulp movement is definitely bringing the genre back in all its colorful, sensational, glory combining the sizzle of the cover art with story content aimed at more modern sensibilities, but with the values of pulp’s past.

AP: Where do you see the pulp and book industry in the future?

PB: E-publishing is here to stay.  Combined with the accessibility and ease of POD for physical books, authors themselves are now the driving force in the writing/publishing business.  It’s a great time to be a writer, but there are also whole new skill sets to capture from layout, to promotion, to editing. Yikes!  It’s worlds better than traditional publishing for all but the bestselling authors, but some days you wonder if you have to be careful what you wish for.

AP: Is there a particular character out there you haven’t had the chance to work on that you would love to take a crack at writing?

PB: I’ve had some fun writing for previously established characters, especially for the upcoming Nightbeat anthology (based on the radio show of the same name), but I actually prefer to work with my own characters.

AP: Where can readers find information on you and your work?

PB: I can be found blogging at Bish’s Beat (www.bishsbeat.blogspot.com) and on the new Fight Card website (www.fightcardbooks.com) as well as Facebook and Twitter (@bishsbeat).

AP: What upcoming projects do you have coming up that you can tell us about at this time?

PB: 2013 will see Fight Card expanding its brand in several ways.  Aside for our traditional monthly offerings of Fight Card tales set in the ‘50s, we will be premiering three or four Fight Card MMA novels (set in the current world of mixed martial arts) and possibly two Fight Card Romance novels (yes, romances) designed to widen the audience for the series as a whole.

I’m also excited about a series of pulp anthologies I’m working on with pulp maven Tommy Hancock (Pro Se Press), which will be out early in the new year.  I’m also editing The C.O.B.R.A.S. Files, a collection of swinging ‘60s set spy stories (back when espionage was fun) from The Coalition Of Bloggers wRiting About Spies, which should be a lot of fun.

I’ll also be returning to my cop storytelling roots with a new series, The Interrogators, which will hopefully hit the virtual bookshelves next summer.

AP: Do you have any shows, signings, or conventions coming up where your fans can meet you?

PB: 2013 looks to be a busy year for me promoting Fight Card series in numerous venues.  I will be at Pulp Ark in April, where I’ll be premiering my new Fight Card novel Swamp Walloper as well as one of the new Fight Card MMA titles. 

AP: And finally, what does Paul Bishop do when he’s not writing?

PB: I teach an intensive, week-long, interrogation course once a month, which keeps me in touch with the law enforcement world.  I read as much as I can, work on promoting Fight Card and my other writing projects, and run four or five miles a day to keep my stress levels balanced.  After finishing 35 years of working full time with the LAPD, it seems I am busier than ever.

AP: Thanks, Paul. We look forward to reading your new books.

You can learn more about Paul Bishop here and the Fight Card series here.

Want to hear more from paul Bishop? Paul will be a guest on episode 130 of the Earth Station One podcast, going live September 27th at www.esopodcast.com.