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The Green Hornet: Still at Large!

Yes, that's right, folks... there will be a third volume of short stories from Moonstone Books about the 1960s Green Hornet and Kato. Feast your eyes on the cover by Rubén Procopio!

This time around, Joe Gentile and I will be joined by Matthew Baugh in sharing the editorial duties. Our lineup of writers is complete and they are getting busy. Look for the book some time in 2012!

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2011 - Writing Progress Part Two

The Green Hornet Casefiles (the second Green Hornet anthology), co-edited by me and Joe Gentile; my story "Bad Medicine" is co-written with Vito Delsante; it's at the printer now, so hopefully shipping in a month or so. The book features the 1960s Green Hornet (TV version) and our story takes place in 1964.

"The Adventure of the Fallen Stone" is coming soon in Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook. This is the Holmes-Sexton Blake story listed on the book cover, but it's no mere crossover. The story takes place in 1917 and flows naturally from some of the key 1916 events of Philip Jose Farmer's The Peerless Peer, sending Holmes, Watson, detective Harry Dickson, and a Rohmer-esque female character to an out-of-the-way village called Wold Newton. The story centers around the properties of a certain meteor which once landed near that village, and the villain has close ties to Philip Jose Farmer's authorized Doc Savage novel Escape from Loki. Not sure of the exact release date, but I'd expect it this year.

The Sherlock Holmes story also has a strong connection to my tale in the forthcoming The Avenger: The Justice Inc. Files, "Happy Death Men," which takes place in 1945. The tale features a team-up with The Avenger and the Domino Lady, and has links to Philip Jose Farmer's authorized Doc Savage novel Escape from Loki. It's at the printer now, so hopefully shipping in a month or so.

"Zombies under Broadway" is my Green Ghost tale co-written with Eric Fein. It should appear in a forthcoming issue of Moonstone Pulp Fiction Magazine. I don't have any further scheduling details.

I am currently writing a Honey West-T.H.E. Cat crossover story for Moonstone's Honey West prose anthology (not to be confused by a Honey West-T.H.E. Cat crossover comic by another creative team, also for Moonstone). The tale picks up on a back-story line from David McDaniel's The Man from U.N.C.L.E. classic novel The Rainbow Affair. No schedule as of yet.

Coming in the pipeline...

• another Avenger tale
• a new "Wold Newton Origins" story for Meteor House (for The Worlds of Philip Jose Farmer vol. 3, to be released sometime in 2012)
• a Patricia Wildman story (picking up from the events of the novel The Evil in Pemberley House)
• and a Sherlock Holmes novel.

2011 - Writing Progress Part One

Publications in the first half of the year....

Traditional print:

• "Nadine's Invitation" in Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 7: Femmes Fatales by Jean-Marc and Randy Lofficier (eds.) (Black Coat Press, December 2010 [close enough to 2001 for me ;-)]

• "Zorro's Rival" in More Tales of Zorro by Richard Dean Starr (ed.) (Moonstone Books, March 2011)

• "Afterword" to The Peerless Peer by Philip José Farmer (Titan Books, June 2011)

Digital:

• "Iron and Bronze," with Christopher Paul Carey:
• Amazon Kindle
• B&N Nook

• "Captain Midnight at UltimaThule"
• iPulpFiction.com

• "Afterword" to The Peerless Peer by Philip José Farmer (Titan Books, June 2011)
• Amazon Kindle
• B&N Nook

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Going Digital: Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule

Yesterday Christopher Paul Carey and I posted about the eBook publication of our story "Iron and Bronze" on both Kindle and Nook.

Today, I'm pleased to announce the availability of my tale "Captain Midnight at Ultima Thule" at iPulpFiction.com.

MIN. AGE: YA
GENRE: Ad­ven­ture
TYPE: Short Sto­ry
PUB­LISH­ER: Moon­stone Books
AU­THOR: Win Scott Eckert

Born in the blaz­ing cru­cible of war, but sworn to fight for peace, the mys­te­ri­ous ob­sid­i­an avi­a­tor known on­ly by the co­de­name Cap­tain Mid­night… flies again!

An ace pi­lot, su­per se­cret agent, and as­tound­ing sci­en­tif­ic ge­nius, the hero­ic Cap­tain Mid­night ruled the ra­dio air­waves and starred in com­ic books, film se­ri­als and a clas­sic tele­vi­sion se­ries.

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Cap­tain Mid­night at Ul­ti­ma Thule (6,100 words)

Sab­o­tage, a cur­va­ceous foe, a se­cret mis­sion, a hid­den city… and Nazis. Who could ask for any­thing more of a pulp ac­tion-ad­ven­ture?

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iPulpFiction.com is a cloud-based reading service that publishes classic and contemporary short stories that are accessible from any device with an up-to-date browser and an Internet connection.

Coming soon to iPulpFiction: Lance Star: Shadows over Kunlun.

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"Iron and Bronze" by Christopher Paul Carey & Win Scott Eckert now available on the Kindle and Nook

My good friend and co-writer Christopher Paul Carey beat me to the punch on posting this, and he's put it better than I could, so I'm taking the easy way out and quoting his post:

"For a long time, my good friend and colleague Win Scott Eckert and I had been tossing around the idea of writing a story together. We had both been heavily influenced in our youth by the Doc Savage pulps, H. Rider Haggard, and Jules Verne (among others), and each of us had completed novels begun by Philip José Farmer. Win's collaboration with Phil, The Evil in Pemberley House, came out in 2009, and mine, The Song of Kwasin, lined up behind Up the Bright River (a wonderful collection that came out to commemorate Phil's long and wildly imaginative career following his passing), and is slated to be published in an omnibus of the Khokarsa series in 2012. So it only seemed natural that we should write a story together ourselves someday.

That opportunity finally came with the story "Iron and Bronze," which was first published in 2009 by Black Coat Press in the anthology Tales of the Shadowmen 5: The Vampires of Paris (a terrific anthology and series that I highly recommend to pulp adventure enthusiasts), and which features two great heroes of the French pulps. Now the story is available in ebook format for both the Kindle and Nook. Here's the product description:

Taduki-inspired visions draw an intrepid adventurer and a madman to a lost African outpost of Atlantis where they must confront an ancient mystery from the stars... Drawing on diverse sources such as Jules Verne’s The Barsac Mission, H. Rider Haggard’s She and Allan, Guy d’Armen’s Doc Ardan (who has been called the “French Doc Savage”), J.-H. Rosny âiné’s L’Étonnant Voyage de Hareton Ironcastle, Pierre Benoit’s L’Atlantide, and Philip José Farmer’s “monomyth,” “Iron and Bronze” hearkens back the classic SF adventure pulps of the 1920s and ’30s.

This story first appeared in the anthology Tales of the Shadowmen 5: The Vampires of Paris.

Christopher Paul Carey is the co-author with Philip José Farmer of The Song of Kwasin, the third novel in the Khokarsa series (omnibus forthcoming in 2012 from Subterranean Press).

Win Scott Eckert is the co-author with Philip José Farmer of the Wold Newton novel The Evil in Pemberley House, about Patricia Wildman, the daughter of a certain bronze-skinned pulp hero (Subterranean Press, 2009).

So if that grabs you, you can begin reading "Iron and Bronze" right now on the Kindle or Nook platform of your choice."

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THE PEERLESS PEER - available today!

To all fans of Philip Jose Farmer's Wold Newton Universe...!

Fellow Wold Newton expert Brad Mengel wrote the following to me today:

"I picked up my copy of Titan Books' [new edition of Philip Jose Farmer's classic Sherlock Holmes-Lord of the Jungle crossover novel] The Adventure of The Peerless Peer. Looking at the back cover I was amazed to see 'A Wold Newton Universe Novel.'"

Yes indeed. :-)

Titan is clearly testing the waters with creating a "brand" line of Wold Newton books, just like their "Further Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" line.

I know that may of us, as Wold Newton fans, already have copies of The Peerless Peer, but if you want to see more Philip Jose Farmer books brought back into print, as a series of "Wold Newton Universe Novels," then buy this new edition, please spread the word to all other Wold Newton fans you can get in contact with, and get them to buy it too. ;-)

We're great fans of Phil's fabulous Wold Newton concept. I can't spread the word alone. I need your help. :-) Blogs, Facebook, twitter, word of mouth, etc.

Anything and everything will help. Thanks in advance. :-)

P.S. Readers and fans may also be interested in the new Afterword which I contributed to this edition. ;-)

The Peerless Peer by Philip José Farmer - Direct from Titan Books - Afterword by Win Scott Eckert
* Amazon
* B&N
* B&N NOOKbook (eBook)

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Green Hornet Casefiles - final cover (softcover)

Final cover by Michael Wm. Kaluta!

Notice the new, neato-keen Hornet 75th anniversary logo!!

Green Hornet Casefiles - final cover (hardcover)

Final cover by Rubén Procopio!

Notice the new, neato-keen Hornet 75th anniversary logo!!