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Crossovers gushing

T. Everett of Northern Michigan gushes about Crossovers: A Secret Chronology of the World Volumes 1 & 2.



Here and here.



Thanks T!

Writing roundup, 2010

It's always fun to look back and see how much has been accomplished, as well as what's just around the bend...

IN PRINT:

"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

"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.

"Is He in Hell?" 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; expansion explains how certain well-know persons came to be in Wold Newton, England on Dec 13, 1795

"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.

AND FORTHCOMING...

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

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

"Zombies under Broadway," co-written with Eric Fein -- Green Ghost tale, part of Moonstone's Return of the Originals

"Happy Death Men" (working title) -- The Avenger/The Domino Lady crossover story; currently undergoing final polishing and self-editing this weekend; to be submitted to Moonstone Books for The Avenger Chronicles Volume 3

Untitled story for Black Coat Press' Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 7: Femmes Fatales

Editing Moonstone's The Green Hornet Chronicles Volume 2; possibly writing a sequel to "Fang and Sting"

Untitled story for a Sherlock Holmes anthology

Researching and taking notes for a novel I intend to write in 2011

More Green Ghost prose stories for Moonstone's Return of the Originals

Gods, no wonder I'm tired.

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Contents announced for The Green Hornet Chronicles

The Green Hornet Chronicles is at the printer and is shipping soon from Moonstone Books!

• Edited by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert
• Covers by Glen Orbik and Rubén Procopio/interior illustrations by Procopio
• Information on the various covers and editions here

CONTENTS:

• "Reflections on The Green Hornet": Introduction by Van Williams
• "The Night Car" by Will Murray
• "I Had The Green Hornet’s Love Child!" by Greg Cox
• "Weakness" by C.J. Henderson
• "Topsy-Turvy" by James Chambers
• "Nothing Gold Can Stay" by Richard Dean Starr
• "Just a Man" by Thom Brannan
• "The Cold Cash Kill" by James Reasoner
• "Flight of the Yellow Jacket" by Howard Hopkins
• "By Scarab and Scorpion" by Mark Ellis
• "You Can’t Pick the Number" by Rich Harvey
• "Eyes of the Madonna" by Ron Fortier
• "Stormy Weather" by Patricia Weakley
• "The Auction" by Terry Alexander
• "Go Go Gone" by Robert Greenberger
• "Mutual Assured Destruction" by Bill Spangler
• "The Crimson Dragon" by Mark Justice
• "Fang and Sting" by Win Scott Eckert
• "The Inside Man" by Matthew Baugh
• "The Soul of Solomon" by Harlan Ellison(R)
• "Life at 90 MPH": Afterword by Dean Jeffries
• "The Green Hornet's Hunch" by Dennis O'Neil (bonus story in Limited Editions only)

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Green Hornet final covers -- first look!

The Green Hornet Chronicles is coming soon--really soon--from Moonstone Books, and they've given me permission to post this first look at the final covers!

Why wait, pre-order now (links below)!

Limited Hardcover by Glen Orbik:




















Limited Slipcase Hardcover and Direct Market Paperback by Rubén Procopio:





















Book Market Paperback by Glen Orbik:

Up the Bright River by Philip José Farmer

Up the Bright River

By Philip Jose Farmer
(preorder—to be published in December)

Edited by Gary K. Wolfe

Trade: $40
ISBN: 978-1-59606-329-7
Length: 336 pages

Subterranean Press is proud to present a new, roughly 120,000 word gathering of Philip Jose Farmer’s singular tales!

This first posthumous collection of the short fiction of Philip Jose Farmer is a celebration of the impressive variety of his prodigious output, from the space adventures he published in the science fiction magazines of the 1950s through the 1970s, to his acerbic satires of religion and medicine, to his fictional biographies and memoirs, to his beloved Riverworld.

Appearing for the first time in a Philip Jose Farmer collection are his last three “Riverworld” stories—featuring characters from his own family history--as well as the “memoir” of Lord Greystoke which he claimed to have merely edited. Other highlights include “Attitudes,” the first of the Father Carmody stories; “The Two-Edged Gift,” which introduces the fictional science fiction writer Leo Queequeg Tincrowdor; “Toward the Beloved City” (about which its original editor said he had never before really understood the Book of Revelations); and “Father’s in the Basement,” a little-known Gothic horror tale which is also a satire of the writing profession.

Farmer created some of the most famous worlds in science fiction, but he also wrote in many worlds, and readers familiar only with his best-known classics may find a few surprises among these tales.

Trade: 1500 fully cloth bound hardcover copies

Table of Contents

• Attitudes
• How Deep the Grooves
• The Blasphemers
• A Bowl Bigger Than Earth
• Down in the Black Gang
• The Voice of the Sonar in My Vermiform Appendix
• Father’s in the Basement
• Toward the Beloved City
• Skinburn
• The Sumerian Oath
• Extracts from the Memoirs of Lord Greystoke
• The Two-Edged Gift
• Saint Francis Kisses His Ass Goodbye
• Crossing the Dark River
• Up the Bright River
• Coda

Sojan the Swordsman/Under the Warrior Star

Via Christopher Paul Carey: The final cover art to the upcoming Planet Stories Double Feature--Sojan the Swordman & Under the Warrior Star by Michael Moorcock and Joe R. Lansdale--has been posted.

Check it out!

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Feasting on Lord Grandrith and Doc Caliban

A sampling of what's on my mind right now...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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As promised, Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair swag...

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Regular followers of my pic o' the day may have noticed my recent obsession with mid-century vintage hard-boiled and sleaze paperbacks. Actually, it's not a recent obsession, just a temporary shift. We'll get back to more pulp covers soon, and they're all related, anyway.

Spicy, lurid pulps anyone?

So when Hard Case Crime mixed Sherlockiana with a vintage-styled hard-boiled cover as rendered by my favorite cover artist (he'd better be my favorite, he's done my novel The Evil in Pemberley House and the soon-to-be-released The Green Hornet Chronicles which I co-edited) Glen Orbik... well, saying they had me at hello would be an understatement.

This is not the first time, though, that Holmes received the mid-century paperback treatment.

And I'll be posting those covers, as well as some other plunder I picked up at the Rocky Mountain Book and Paper Fair last weekend, over the next several days, so stay tuned.

Why is it...?

....That whenever people feel compelled to share that they dislike the Wold Newton concept, they also feel compelled to back up their dislike with wildly exaggerated assertions such as this one: "[It] attempts to show that every pulp fiction character ever created is related to all the others through the Wold Newton bloodline."

Even error-prone Wikipedia gets this simple idea right, and nowhere was it ever claimed that Farmer, or anyone else playing the Game, attempted or is attempting to relate every pulp fiction character ever created to the Wold Newton Family.

Sheesh.

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