Running Down 2011

I've compiled a list of my writing misadventures for 2011. Here's the rundown...

January my space opera novella The Artificial Woman starring the crew of Barclay Salvage appeared in Startling Adventures #2. (Still available for just $6.66 at Amazon)

In February I nabbed a Pulp Ark 'Best Author' nomination.  Alas, another worthy writer, Barry Reese, took the final honors when the winner was announced in May.

In July I had two weird west tales featuring Native American gunman Lone Crow published: The Lost Vale and Gunmen of the Hollow Earth in How the West was Weird 2 and in How the West was Weird: Campfire Tales, respectively.

 $14.99 for a hard copy and $3.99 for a digital download at Amazon.

Campfire Tales is available as a 99 cent digital download at Smashwords.

In July Lone Crow, Porter Rockwell, and a doughty fellow that goes by the name of Josh Reynolds appeared in The Shadow Walkers which was published in Showdown at Midnight. (Hard copy for $15.99 or Kindle download for $4.95)

Also in July came Strange Gods of the Dire Planet, the fourth novel detailing the adventures of displaced American astronaut Garvey Dire. ($12.95 at the PulpWork Press store or $3.99 kindle format)

A couple of days later Dark Worlds summer issue came out, carrying a short story entitled The Remnant Band--a fantasy tale set in the city of Bathos where my previous novels Escape from Devil's Head and Through the Groaning Earth take place. (Dark Worlds is available in hard copy format for $14.59, or you may want to pick up the bargain digital download for $4.99)

Things slowed down until November when The Gantlet Brothers Greatest Hits came down like a ton of heavy metal. (Available in Epub and Kindle formats for just $2.99 or in hard copy for $11.95).

Then to round out the year The Christmas Eve Killers was released in the PulpWork Christmas Special 2011.  For a few more days this is available as a free download.  Get it before the Christmas spirit evaporates and PulpWork posts it for actual hard-earned money for Nook and Kindle.

Phew...that was exhausting!  On an upcoming post I'll share a couple of things that are coming down the pike for 2012. 

Gantlet Brothers on the Book Cave

I recently chatted with Ric Croxton and Art Sippo on the Book Cave Podcast about my latest literary/pulp endeavor The Gantlet Brothers Greatest Hits. You can listen in here.  Pick up a hard copy of The Gantlet Brothers Greatest Hits at PulpWork Press ($11.95) or digital copies at Amazon and Barnes and Noble (just $2.99)

Z7 Reviews Campfire Tales

Tim Mayer of Z7's Headquarters Reviews Campfire Tales, which contains a quartet of western tales guaranteed to make you quiver with fear.  Check out the review here and pick up a digital copy at Smashwords or on Kindle for a mere ninety-nine cents.

PulpWork Christmas Special 2011

Until the end of the year Pulpwork is offering free downloads of the PulpWork Christmas Special 2011. This features a spectacular cover by MD Jackson and two tales of Christmas deviltry and destruction by Josh Reynolds and Joel Jenkins.

First, occult investigator Charles St. Cyprian uncovers the ancient Christmas evil behind the legend of merry John Mock and then icy-hearted assassin Monica Killingsworth undertakes a Christmas Eve killing with treachery lurking around every corner.

Note: The free files for the PulpWork Christmas Special have been removed.  Check on Amazon.com to purchase a Kindle copy for just 99 cents.

Campfire on Kindle

How the West was Weird: Campfire Tales is now available on Kindle and in various other electronic formats at Smashwords.  The cool thing is that it's only 99 cents!

Here's what's in it:

Four novellas combining the western with sci-fi and horror. This new addition to Pulpwork Press's best-selling HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD series includes cowboys in a lost world, robot Pinkertons fighting sky pirates beside Teddy Roosevelt, and zombies - lots and lots of zombies.

CAMPFIRE TALES includes the following stories:

MR. BRASS AND THE CRIMSON SKIES OF KANSAS by Josh Reynolds. The robot Pinkerton is all that stands between President Teddy Roosevelt and an attack by sky pirates and Mr. Hyde.

HELL'S OWN by Russ Anderson. Zombies overrun a small western town, and the town's lone sheriff is the only one that's armed. Will anyone survive?

THE TALE OF THE BARON'S TRIBUTE by Derrick Ferguson. When a foe from Sebastian Red's past attacks him through his friends, Sebastian must undo the damage done to his loved ones and do battle with a foe who is, for once, in every way his equal.

GUNMEN OF THE HOLLOW EARTH by Joel Jenkins. Lone Crow, Doc Holliday, and Morgan Earp lead the surviving members of the Wild Bunch into a lost world at the center of the Earth, running afoul of dinosaurs, a tribe of barbarian women, and a posse of silver-hungry banditos who have followed them from the surface world.