Wednesday, July 27, 2011

New Kindle Series


I make no bones about the fact that my roots are in the pulps.  I loved Doc Savage and the Shadow and the Spider when I was growing up.  Tracked down every one I could find.  I've told people all my life that I was simply born in the wrong time.  I want to write EVERYTHING.  Back then you could.  Writers went from a science fiction pulp story in the morning to a Western range romance in the afternoon, and then finished off the evening with a story they hoped to sell to Weird Tales.

This is my first foray into writing about pulp writers.  It's 1935 and a young, nameless pulp writer who churns out the Lincoln Landry, Space Ranger pulp tales for the science fiction pulps wants to develop a few stories for Black Mask Magazine, which was then home to Raymond Chandler and Dashiell Hammett.

He pairs up with a tough New York police detective named Jim McLane and the action simply turns to pure pulp.  Short chapters, action, and dialogue propel the story through to the end with a twist.

I'm putting it up on Kindle now, and it should be pubbed by the end of the week.  I'm excited about this one.

Cover is by Keith Birdsong.

1 comment:

Paul Bishop said...

THIS IS GOING TO BE GREAT! I'M ALL OVER IT!