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Casting Call 2: The Evil in Pemberley House

Following up on Brad Mengel's original post, and my brief reply, on dream casting The Evil in Pemberley House:

Patricia Wildman: still down with Christina Hendricks.








Dr. James Clarke "Doc" Wildman (Patricia's father): Chris Hemsworth (minus the long hair & beard).









Adelaide Lupin (Patricia's mother): Eva Green.










The Dowager Duchess of Greystoke: I'm fine with Brad's suggestion of Dame Maggie Smith.








Richard Deguy: Richard Greene (since Phil Farmer said Deguy looked like Greene).










Carla Deguy/Ghost of Bess of Pemberley: Olivia Wilde.










Helen Benson (daughter of Mr. Benson and Ellen Patrick): Beau Garrett.








Dr. Augustus Moran: Michael Caine.

FarmerCon VI and PulpFest 2011!

From the PulpFest site:

"PulpFest 2011 is pleased to announce that FarmerCon VI will be held concurrently at our convention. An annual gathering for fans of Grand Master of Science Fiction Philip José Farmer, FarmerCon is rooted in Peoria, Illinois, the late author’s home town."

Read the whole entry here.

In conjunction, Meteor House will have a table in the PulpFest Dealer's Room, and I'll be helping man the table, along with my friend, fellow FarmerCon organizer, and Meteor House cohort, Mike Croteau.

As one of the organizers and participants in FarmerCon, I’d like to thanks the fine folks at PulpFest for agreeing to co-host us this year. This will be our 6th annual gathering, and the second since Phil Farmer and Bette Farmer passed away.

We will have some cool Farmer/Pulp/Wold Newton presentations for the programming, and we’ll have a selection of books still available from Phil Farmer’s estate, as well as some copies of the latest Farmer books for sale (last summer’s THE WORLDS OF PHILIP JOSE FARMER 1: PROTEAN DIMENSIONS, Meteor House), and the forthcoming THE WORLDS OF PHILIP JOSE FARMER 2: OF DUST AND SOUL, featuring new works from Phil’s files, non-fic essays about his work, new authorized fiction set in his various worlds, and cover art by Laura Givens.

Of course, I’ll also bring copies of my latest non-Farmerian books and will be selling those at our table as well. Fingers crossed I’ll have the forthcoming THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES on hand, as well as THE AVENGER: THE JUSTICE INC. FILES. CROSSOVERS 2 was not out in time for last year's FarmerCon, so that's also something to keep in mind.

I’ll be discussing Phil’s pulp universe/timeline, known as the Wold Newton Universe, and hopefully I’ll have copies on hand of Titan Books’ reissue of Phil’s Sherlock Holmes-Lord Greystoke mashup novel, THE PEERLESS PEER, to which I’ve contributed a new afterword.

Some other regular FarmerCon attendees who I know will be there are my pals Art
Sippo, John Small, and Doc Savage/Shadow chronologist Rick Lai. Some other online pals who I'm looking forward to meeting in person are writer Greg Gick and All Pulp's Tommy Hancock.

Meteor House is also running a Book Bonanza for authors:

"If you are an author coming to FarmerCon VI, here is your chance to tell the rest of us which books of yours you have available. Then fellow attendees may request that you bring copies of certain books for them to purchase directly from you."

Follow The Official Philip Jose Farmer Home Page, Meteor House, BookTour.com, and this site for more details.

We’re looking forward to seeing everyone there!

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Follow me @ BookTour.com

Okay, so it's not like I go on "book tours," or anything, but this is a neat little site, anyway, and it does allow me to highlight the few Con appearances I'm able to work in each year.

For instance, I'll be at PulpFest 2011 / FarmerCon VI in Columbus in late July.

You can check out my BookTour page here, and also add an RSS feed.

Thanks to my pal Christopher Paul Carey for letting me know about this! (Here's Chris' own BookTour page.)

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The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions - Now Available on Amazon!

Edited by Michael Croteau, this new anthology is a tour through SF Grand Master Philip José Farmer’s many creations, featuring essays by the likes of Randall Garrett and James Gunn, interviews with Farmer, stories set in Farmer’s expanded worlds by Chris Roberson, David Bischoff, Rhys Hughes, Win Scott Eckert, Christopher Paul Carey, and other SF/F talents, and previously unpublished fiction and more by Farmer himself.

While this acclaimed anthology is still available direct from Meteor House,The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 1: Protean Dimensions is now also available from Amazon!

Obviously we'd prefer everyone to buy direct from Meteor House, but we do know that some readers prefer to buy in bulk from Amazon to save on shipping. Full contents are listed both at Meteor House and Amazon. I'd remind everyone that this book features my first Wold Newton Origins tale, "Is He in Hell?" The second tale, the short-short "Nadine's Invitation," appears in Tales of the Shadowmen 7: Femmes Fatales.

I'm also pleased to announce that Meteor House publisher/editor Mike Croteau and I have been discussing future projects and that The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 3, which should come out some time in 2012, will feature the continuation of the Wold Newton Origins series!

In the meantime, keep your browser pointed at www.meteorhousepress.com for the latest news about the forthcoming The Worlds of Philip José Farmer 2: Of Dust and Soul, which is another tour through Farmer’s many worlds, featuring essays by the likes of Charles Platt and James Sallis, stories set in Farmer’s expanded worlds by Spider Robinson, Mary A. Turzillo, and others, and featuring an all new novella by Philip José Farmer & Christopher Paul Carey ("Kwasin and the Bear God"), along with much more by Farmer himself.

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Win Scott Eckert announces contents for THE GREEN HORNET CASEFILES

I'm pleased to announce the final contents Moonstone Books' second Green Hornet anthology,The Green Hornet Casefiles.

• Edited by Joe Gentile and Win Scott Eckert
• Cover Art (Limited Edition Hardcover): Rubén Procopio
• Cover Art (Trade Edition Softcover): Michael Wm. Kaluta
• 336pgs, b/w, Squarebound, 6”x9”
  
  

Contents:

• "The Outlaw Hero" - Introduction by Ron Fortier
• "Sting of the Yellowjacket" by Howard Hopkins
• "Lair of the Living Dead" by Joe McKinney
• "Through a Green Haze" by Dan Wickline
• "The Black Widow" by John Everson
• "A Thing of Beauty" by Bobby Nash
• "The Insincerest Form of Flattery" by Paul D. Storrie
• "Bad Medicine" by Vito Delsante and Win Scott Eckert
• "The Gray Line Between" by F.J. DeSanto, Michael Uslan and Joe Gentile
• "Up in Smoke" by Deborah Chester
• "The Worst Angels of Our Nature" by Paul Kupperberg
• "Now That Would Be Telling" by Bradley H. Sinor
• "Summer of Death" by Barry Reese
• "The Wet and the Wicked" by David Boop
• "The Carlossi Caper" by Arthur A. Lyon
• "Soldanus, the Sultan of Crime" by Gary Phillips
• "The Dangerous Game" by Eric Fein
• "Beauty Is As Beauty Dies" by James Mullaney
• "Auld Acquaintance" by Matthew Baugh
• "Memories of My Grandfather, Raymond J. Meurer" - Afterword by Lisa Meurer Long
• Bonus Story In Limited Edition: "If These Walls Could Buzz" by Tim Lasiuta and Rafael Nieves

Pre-order:

• Moonstone Direct
• Amazon (trade edition)
• Amazon (limited edition)
• B&N (trade edition)
• B&N (limited edition)

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