INTRODUCING THE BAGO AWARDS

New Pulp Author Sean Taylor’s Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog is planning a new award for bloggers called The BaGo Awards. Sean is currently looking for nominations so let him know your favorite blogs here.

Press Release:

We're coming up on the one-year anniversary of the blog (first post was 11/27/11), and I wanted to do something special for it, but not for me -- for all the other bloggers out there plugging away every day.

So here's what I have in mind -- The BaGo Awards (or the soon to be known simply as the BaGo). Send me your suggestions and I'll present the best of the best blogs out there for and by writers. Here are a few of the categories I propose. What categories would you add? (not blogs yet... I'll announce the call for those as soon as we get the categories hammered out.)

Best In Show Awards
For INDIVIDUAL writers who are primarily genre-specific who maintain a blog about their work in that genre and the genre itself.

Genres include:
Horror
Pulp
Fantasy
Sci-Fi
Mystery
Thriller
Comics and Graphic Novels

Best in Craft Award
For the best instructional/inspirational resource blog to make writers better at their craft.

Most Beautiful Soul Award
For the best, personal blog from a writer who uses his or her platform to "bare the soul" as the cliche goes.

Best Group Blog Award
For those blogs maintained by a group of writers, whether focused on genres, news, interviews, reviews or a combination them.

Best in Reviews Award
For the best blog that focuses primarily on book reviews, can be be a writer blog or reader blog in this category.

Welcome to the Club Award for the best blog from a new writer first published within the past year

Any other suggestions?

Take care,

Sean Taylor
Official Taylorverse Website
Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog

Bullets vs. Bonding at Sean Taylor's Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action Blog

New Pulp Author Sean Taylor has created a new blog called Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com/

In his latest column, Bullets vs. Bonding, Sean discusses balancing action and characterization in pulp fiction with a few of New Pulp's finest. Here's a sample:

Anyone who is a fan of the genre knows how much pulp is defined by the action-oriented plots. That's a given. We get it, and we've beat that dead horse so hard it already got back up for a few hard-boiled western sequel novels.

But...

Is there room for the characterization that is so often maligned in this fast-paced genre?

And if not, what separates the Angel Dares (from Christa Faust's Money Shot and Choke Hold) from the Lance Stars (from Bobby Nash's Lance Star: Sky Ranger anthologies) from the Rook (from Barry Reese's series). Without character development, wouldn't all these two-fisted, bullet-evading heroes and heroines just be generic replicas of other archetypes?

Well, to go straight to the horses' mouths, I asked several of New Pulp's leading creators.

You can read the rest at Bad Girls, Good Guys, and Two-Fisted Action at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com./