Pulp Consumption: Fletch

Cameron talks about FLETCH, and how it fits into neo-noir pulp.

Broadswords and Blasters

This is the cover on my DVD. The original movie poster is much better.

We talk a lot about movies and tv shows here, and you might think we don’t read much pulp, but we do and are. Both Matt and I recently picked up a collection of Seabury Quinn’s Jules de Grandin stories and I bought a new collection of Hap and Leonard by Joe R. Lansdale (RIP the tv series after three seasons), so we’ll get back to written pulp in a week or two. However, I wanted to explain why so many of the Pulp Appeals and Consumptions seem focused on visual media.^[1]

This is a very young Geena Davis in only her second movie role.

In between the fall of the pulp greats and the rise of new pulp magazines in the last ten years, much of what we would consider to be pulp fiction…

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So You Got Rejected by Broadswords and Blasters

A debrief on the last reading period Cameron and I did for Broadswords and Blasters.

Broadswords and Blasters

I know, there’s probably ten or so of you that are absolutely devastated that this isn’t a pulp appeal article where Cameron or I talk about some pulp (or pulp adjacent property). Instead, this is going to be about our last submission period, and some of what we saw. So this is for the writers in the audience, which, going by our Twitter and Facebook feeds is, well, most of you[1].

The Guidelines Are There For a Reason (Part I)

We have guidelines on our website. They detail, in what we hope is clear and concise language, what we are looking for. They can be broken down in two parts. The first is the genres we are looking for:

• sword and sorcery;
• westerns (Weird or otherwise);
• horror (Cosmic, Southern Gothic, visceral, and psychological);
• detective tales;
• two-fisted action;
• retro science fiction

If you can squint real hard and fit…

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