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February Previews is here, and things are looking very Green!

Diamond Previews' February issue is now out and I'd like to let everyone who orders through their local comic shop know that I've got two items listed this month:

THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Softcover

SRP: $18.95

Diamond Code: FEB11 1083

THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES Limited Edition Hardcover

(Rubén Procopio cover)

SRP: $43.95

Diamond Code: FEB11 1084

I'll have two stories in The Green Hornet Casefiles, which I am also co-editing with Joe Gentile:

• "Bad Medicine," co-written with Vito Delsante, and
• another entry which is a sequel to "Fang and Sting" from the first anthology, The Green Hornet Chronicles.

PHANTOM DETECTIVE Graphic Novel)

(contains Green Ghost prose story which I co-wrote with Eric Fein, illustrated by David Niehaus in Moonstone's "wide-vision" format)

SRP: $8.99

Diamond Code: FEB11 1087

Casting Call : The Evil in Pemberley House

Brad Mengel is starting a neat little series of blog posts imagining the movie casts of his favorite books, and I'm honored he's started with The Evil in Pemberley House.

I am definitely down with his suggestions for Christina Hendricks as Patricia Wildman...
























...and Monica Belluci as Patricia's mother, Adelaide Lupin...









































... although I had originally envisioned Angelina Jolie for the role...



















I'll put together my own cast suggestions soon. Thanks Brad!

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Green Hornet Chronicles - "Fang and Sting" Reviewed!

Brad Mengel has kindly reviewed my Green Hornet Chronicles tale "Fang and Sting," and I think its safe to say to say he liked it.

Read Brad's review here

Brad plans on reviewing the whole book soon, and I'm looking forward to it!

• Order from Amazon
• Order from Moonstone Books

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Tales of the Shadowmen series - reviewed in French!

The entire Tales of the Shadowmen series of pulp crossover anthologies has been translated and packaged in French volumes, Les compagnons de l’Ombre.

A French reviewer has covered the seven (so far) volumes, here (I've taken the liberty of running this through Google translator).

Pretty cool!

My Wold Newton Origins story "Nadine's Invitation" ("L'Invitation de Nadine") will appear in Les compagnons de l’Ombre (Tome 9).

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Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook - pre-order!

Sherlock Holmes: The Crossovers Casebook, is now listed for pre-order on Amazon and Barnes&Noble.com!

"Moonstone Books is proud to present this original anthology featuring never-before-seen tales of the world's first consulting detective, Mr Sherlock Holmes, as he teams up with other investigators and notables of his time! Holmes teams up with one of the most famous thieves of literature, Arsene Lupin! Lawrence of Arabi! Calamity Jane! Sexton Blake! Houdini! The Thinking Machine! Doc Savage's father, Colonel Savage! Featuring short stories from incredible authors including Barbara Hambly, Will Murray, Kevin Van Hook, Martin Powell, Matthew Baugh, Martin Gately, Don Roff, Win Scott Eckert, Chris Sequiera, and Joe Gentile, this collection showcases the secret sequel to the classic Holmes novel 'The Sign of Four', as well as Sherlock and Conan Doyle's own 'Lost World Professor Challenger."

My own contribution is "The Adventure of the Fallen Stone," a semi-sequel to Philip Jose Farmer's The Adventure of the Peerless Peer.

Edited by Howard Hopkins, the book arrives in July!

• Amazon.com
• Barnes&Noble.com

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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/

See and download the full gallery on posterous

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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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