Tuesday, July 19, 2016

Headed to PulpFest 2016 / FarmerCon XI

I'm excited to see all my pulp collecting pals and fellow Philip José Farmer fans starting tomorrow at PulpFest 2016 / FarmerCon XI (July 21 - 24, 2016).


I am officially on vacation starting today, wrapping up several things around the house in preparation for an O-Dark-Hundred flight to Columbus, Ohio tomorrow morning.

In addition to helping man the Meteor House table, chatting with customers, as well as fellow readers and fans, and scouring the dealers' room for additions to my own collection, I have a reading scheduled and will appear on two panels.

Friday, July 22

7 - 7:40 pm: FarmerCon XI. Christopher Paul Carey, Paul Spiteri, Danny Adams and I (all of whom have cowritten books or stories with Philip José Farmer) discuss "Collaborating with a Grand Master."

Saturday, July, 23
2 - 2:50 pm: I join moderator Ron Fortier and fellow panelists Barbara Doran, Andy Fix, and Jeff Venture to discuss writing hero pulp in "The AMAZING World of New Pulp."

I hope to see you in Columbus!

pic o' the day


Friday, June 10, 2016

Two Announcements: The Green Ghost & Phileas Fogg!

After a long (-LONG!-) dry spell, Fate has dealt a strange hand: two books announced, by two separate publishers, on the very same day!

First up is The Green Ghost: Declassified!

Moonstone Books - Coming in October 2016!
The Green Ghost: Declassified
By Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein

The Green Ghost—magician sleuth George Chance—returns! Once a debunker of the supernatural, the Green Ghost terrorized criminals with his horrific skull-face and wraithlike abilities. But criminologist Chance came back from Europe changed—for his wartime experiences taught him: the occult and night creatures were real! Thrill to new prose and comic book tales featuring a multitude of murderers, monsters, and crossovers with I.V. Frost, the Domino Lady, and more!

Authors: Win Scott Eckert & Eric Fein
Artist: David Niehaus
Cover: Malcolm McClinton

Softcover, 7” x 10”, grayscale, $14.99





Next is Meteor House's very first chapbook (signed, limited edition, now available for preorder), featuring a Phileas Fogg short story:



"Being an Account of the Delay at Green River, Wyoming, of Phileas Fogg, World Traveler, or, The Masked Man Meets an English Gentleman"

US $8
5.5×8.5, 28 pages
Limited Edition of ??? Signed copies
Cover: Keith Howell
Ships in early August 2016

December 1872. Phileas Fogg, the lovely Aouda, and his faithful manservant Passepartout, are nearing the end of their frenzied eighty-day dash around the world…

One wouldn’t think, as Fogg and Co. speed across North America on the transcontinental railroad, that they would have time to befriend a mysterious masked lawman, match wits with a long-lived criminal mastermind and his tong, and battle anti-Chinese sentiment in Old West coal mining communities.

One would be wrong.

Win Scott Eckert pulls back the veil on the previously untold tale of Mr. Phileas Fogg’s fateful encounter with the legendary masked rider of the plains and his faithful companion—an episode suppressed (with good reason!) by M. Verne himself from the final publication of his classic Around the World in Eighty Days.



The Green Ghost: Declassified is due out in October 2016 and will be available for preorder via Diamond, as well as available via Amazon, etc. There will also be a hardcover edition available exclusively through Moonstone Books.

The Phileas Fogg chapbook is now available for preorder; Meteor House will ship preordered copies after I sign the books at PulpFest in late July 2016. Reserve your copy now!