Black Coat Press - February 2011 Releases

From Black Coat Press Publisher Jean-Marc Lofficier:

"THE SUPREME PROGRESS is another anthology of eighteen 19th century French proto-SF stories (following NEWS FROM THE MOON and THE GERMANS ON VENUS) by Brian Stableford. I'll single out two as singularly ground-breaking: Charles Cros' An Interastral Drama (1872), about an unlawful love between an Earthman and a Venusian woman, and Eugène Mouton's The End of the World (1872), depicting an ecocatastrophe precipitated by global warming generated by human industrial activity. The cover is by Mike Hoffman.

UNDERSEA ODYSSEY is a suspenseful 1907 techno-thriller about a crew trapped in a sunken submarine at the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, by Captain Danrit, a French war hero (he died at Verdun) and the #1 author of militaristic, near-futuristic thrillers of his time. The cover is by Meinert Hansen.

Finally, HARRY DICKSON AND THE WEREWOLF OF RUTHERFORD GRANGE not only reprints G.L. Gick's (revised) story of Tales of the Shadowmen 1 & 2, but includes four more stories by Gick (two never published before) and an original Harry Dickson tale as well. The cover is by Matt Haley."

http://www.blackcoatpress.com/

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Happy 93rd Birthday to Philip Jose Farmer

If it weren't for Phil, I never would have gone here:

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Author John Allen Small Releases Second Collection, SOMETHING IN THE AIR

From John Allen Small:

PRESS RELEASE

AUTHOR JOHN ALLEN SMALL RELEASES SECOND SHORT
STORY COLLECTION, SOMETHING IN THE AIR
A small town janitor who thinks he has encountered a ghost... a dancer whose improvisations threaten a totalitarian regime... a former porn actress who becomes President of the United States... a bartender whose customers include the Angel of Death...and an elderly man who tells his grandchildren about the days when people celebrated a holiday called "Christmas." These are just a few of the characters readers will meet in "Something In The Air," a new collection of short stories by John Allen Small.

Author of the well-received western anthology Days Gone By: Legends And Tales Of Sipokni West, Small here treats his readers to a wider range of settings and subject matter. The collection opens with "The Only Real That Matters," a romantic tale in which the aging narrator recalls how he met the woman he would spend the rest of his life with; "Joshua Williams Breaks A Date" is a two-fisted adventure in the spirit of the pulp fiction magazines of the 1930s, while "A Chip Of The Ol' Block" reminds us that, no matter their age, boys will be boys.

Along the way there are tales both humorous ("Meatloaf And Me: The Untold Story") and tragic ("Day Of The Dove"); and thought-provoking looks at the possible directions society may be headed in ("Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream," "A Ghost Of Christmas Future"). Fans of a certain popular television series of the late 1960s will finally learn the "true" story of an American espionage agent's fall from grace in "The Phelps Dossier." And then there's "While The Birds Hummed Dirges," a most offbeat tale of alien invasion...

Combining several stories originally published elsewhere with others appearing here for the first time, Something In The Air is an eclectic and entertaining collection readers are bound to enjoy. Published by Ethan Books in association with CreateSpace LLC, Something In The Air is now available at Amazon.com.

Free fiction online: The Green Hornet "Fang and Sting"

It's Moonstone Monday over at All Pulp, and in response to the release of the Green Hornet feature film, Moonstone Books and All Pulp have teamed up to provide readers my Hornet tale "Fang and Sting" in its entirety.

The tale is from Moonstone's anthology The Green Hornet Chronicles, edited by Joe Gentile and yours truly, which has been available for three months. The story features The Green Hornet and Kato vs...???

Read The Green Hornet: "Fang and Sting"

In case you just haven't gotten around to the book yet, here are some of the latest reviews:

• Dr. Wesley Britton, Bookpleasures.com
• Greg Hatcher, Comic Book Resources
• John Allen Small, Yahoo Book Reviews
• Evan Lewis, Davy Crockett's Almanac

And if you're wondering... yes, with the recent finalization and acceptance of my tale for Moonstone's Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook, I am back at hard work editing the second Hornet book, The Green Hornet Casefiles. :-)

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New Green Hornet Chronicles review!

Evan Lewis over at Davy Crockett's Almanac has favorably reviewed The Green Hornet Chronicles!

Check it out!

Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook

I'm quite pleased to announce that "The Adventure of the Fallen Stone" by John H. Watson, M.D. (edited for publication by yours truly) will appear in Moonstone Books' forthcoming Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook.

Other contributors include Matthew Baugh, Larry Engle, Martin Gately, Joe Gentile, Barbara Hambly, Kevin Van Hook, Howard Hopkins, Will Murray, Martin Powell, Don Roff, and Chris Sequeira.

Edited by Howard Hopkins, with a cover by Timothy Lantz.

Dr. Watson and I are in very good company.

The Game is Afoot!

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And... What's Coming in 2011!

FORTHCOMING IN 2011:

"Zorro's Rival" in More Tales of Zorro by Richard Dean Starr (ed.) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming)

"Bad Medicine" in The Green Hornet Casefiles by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert (eds.) (with Vito Delsante) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming)

"untitled" in The Green Hornet Casefiles by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert (eds.) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming) -- sequel to "Fang and Sting" from The Green Hornet Chronicles

"Zombies under Broadway" (a Green Ghost story) in The Phantom Detective #1 (with Eric Fein) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming)

"The Adventure of the Fallen Stone" in Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook by Howard Hopkins (ed.) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming) -- assuming the tale is accepted; it's out with beta-readers right now and will be submitted within a few days

"Happy Death Men" in Moonstone's third Avenger anthology (as-yet untitled) by Joe Gentile and Howard Hopkins (eds.) (Moonstone Books, forthcoming) -- Domino Lady crossover!

The Dynamics of a Meteor, a Sherlock Holmes novel -- I can't say anything more about this right now, except that the general plot is blocked out, and I need to write it

"untitled" in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 8: Agents Provocateurs by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (ed.s) (Black Coat Press, December 2011) -- a "Wold Newton Origins" tale


Seven short stories, a novel, and co-edits on an anthology featuring a popular character.

Busy, busy, busy!

Writing Roundup, 2010

With 2010 behind me, here is the final look at how the year played out:

"Is He in Hell?" in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 6: Grand Guignol by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (eds.) (Black Coat Press, January 2010) -- Scarlet Pimpernel tale

• revised and expanded version in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions by Michael Croteau (ed.) (Meteor House, June 2010) -- Scarlet Pimpernel tale; "Wold Newton Origins" expansion explains how certain well-know persons came to be in Wold Newton, England on Dec 13, 1795
• translated into French: "Le Mouron Rouge en Enfer" en Les Compagnons de l'Ombre (Tome 7) by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (ed.s) (Riviere Blanche, December 2010)

"No Ghosts Need Apply" in The Phantom Chronicles, Volume 2 by Joe Gentile and Mike Bullock (eds.) (Moonstone Books, May 2010) -- The Phantom in Sherlock Holmes' London and Ireland... with a subtle hint of Edgar Rice Burroughs

Crossovers 1: A Secret Chronology of the World, Black Coat Press, May 2010.

"The Blakeney Family Tree" in The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions by Michael Croteau (ed.) (Meteor House, June 2010) -- Creative Mythography essay

"Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule" in Captain Midnight Chronicles by Christopher Mills (ed.) (Moonstone Books, June 2010) -- Captain Midnight vs. Sun Koh, "the Inheritor of Atlantis"

Crossovers 2: A Secret Chronology of the World, Black Coat Press, July 2010.

"Fang and Sting" in The Green Hornet Chronicles by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert (eds.) (Moonstone Books, October 2010) -- The Green Hornet and Kato vs...???

"Nadine's Invitation" in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 7: Femmes Fatales by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (ed.s) (Black Coat Press, December 2010) -- a "Wold Newton Origins" tale


Five short stories, two encyclopaedia-length reference works, a non-fiction essay, a behind-the-scenes proofing/copyediting assist on an anthology, and co-edits on another anthology featuring a popular character.

Not too shabby.

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Green Hornet - '60s TV series marathon on SyFy!

The 1960s series The Green Hornet--featuring the versions of The Hornet and Kato seen here on the cover of Moonstone's The Green Hornet Chronicles (plug, plug)--will run in its entirety on SyFy Channel, all 26 episodes, on Tuesday January 11 (8 am-9 pm Mountain Time, check your local listings).

My DVR is set. :-)

Yes, I have 'em all on video tape, tapes off of television long ago.

And yes, I've found 'em on the web in (--ahem--) various places. But I'm looking forward to watching these in HD--even if they might be edited for time.

Can an authorized DVD set be far behind?

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