How the West was Weird Too

Editor, Russell Anderson, has announced the line-up for the impending How the West Was Weird Vol. 2 anthology of strange tales from the wild, woolly, and extremely weird West.  Fortunately, I've got a story in slot number four.  It features Native American gunslinger, Lone Crow,  Morgan and Warren Earp, Doc Holliday, Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, and just when you think it might be impossible to include any more awesomeness in one story it also includes a...

I better not say.  That might be ruining the surprise.

Here's the spectacular line-up.



1. Desolation by Barry Reese
2. The Rag Doll Kid by David Boop
3. They Call Him Pat by Ian Taylor
4. The Lost Vale by Joel Jenkins
6. The Yellow Dog by Ron Fortier
6. Mr. Brass and the Devil's Teeth by Josh Reynolds
7. Thunder Pursued by Tom Deja
8. Walker on the Wind by Desmond Reddick
9. Velvet Scourge by Grahm Eberhardt
10. The Demon Wrestler by Dale Glaser
11. Werewolf of Bent Elbow by Tracy Evans
12. Unhallowed Ground by Stacy Dooks
13. Train Comes a-Burnin' by Mark Bousquet
14. Testimony of Constable Fraser by Kevin Thornton
15. Raid at Razorfang Ranch by David Golightly
16. Witch Hole by Matthew Mayo
17. West of Fort Smith by Tommy Hancock
18. Beast of the Black Hills by Tony Wilson
19. Storms of Blood and Snow by Derrick Ferguson
20. Terror in Toyland by Mike McGee

Sly Gantlet and Dillon Meet

Author Derrick Ferguson discusses the first meeting of rock star and erstwhile mercenary, Sly Gantlet, and world-wide adventurer Dillon at his Dillon blog.  The story that details this fateful encounter is called Dead Beat in La Esca and will be appearing this year in Four Bullet for Dillon which will be released by PulpWork Press.

Ferguson even likens Dillon and Sly Gantlet to Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck.  Check out his comments here.

Pulp-Ark Spotlight

Tommy Hancock, the mastermind behind the Pulp-Ark awards, conducted a brief interview with me last week in regards to my nomination for the best author category of the Pulp-Ark awards.  He has posted the results on the Pulp Machine website for anyone who would like to take a look. 

Pulp Ark Nomination

I recently received the happy news that I was nominated for the category of Best Writer for the 2011 Pulp Ark Awards.  This news was even better because it came as a complete surprise.  I had no idea that I was even in the running.  Though, considering the stiff competition (including fellow Pulpwork Press author, the illustrious Derrick Ferguson), I don't have any illusions about actually nabbing the top prize I'm just going to enjoy the fact that I was even nominated. 

Barclay Salvage is Back in Action

Aaron Barclay and his intrepid crew of interstellar salvagers come across an empty freighter being sucked into the orbit of poisonous planet.  What they discover leads them to a secret prison station that has been wiped out by a deadly plague...

Find this 15,000 word story in the pages of Startling Adventure #2, which is now available on Amazon!


The Artificial Woman, which appears in Startling Adventures, is my second crack at a Barclay Salvage space opera and I had a lot of fun returning to the characters (and adding in a few new ones).  This story takes place prior my first Barclay Salvage Story, The Investment, which appears in the first issue of Dark Worlds magazine.

I've had a publisher request another Barclay Salvage story for an anthology, so I hope to be getting to work on that one soon!

Dire News

Yesterday I finished writing Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet and it now stands at 128,000 words of pure pulp sword and science fiction.  This books ran somewhat longer than the other Dire Planet novels as I had a multitude of plot threads and story lines which needed some resolution.

Between Strange Gods of the Dire Planet and Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet I've been living on the Dire Planet for over a year.  Now the hard work begins--the brutal editing and revision process.  Because the two novels are closely knit together I'll be editing them consecutively before submitting them to Pulpwork Press--after which they will undergo yet further editing.

Strange Gods is slated for a 2011 release and Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet for a 2012 release.  Of course, the first three Dire Planet books are available at PulpWork.com, Amazon, and Barnes and Noble.

The Sea Witch Visits the Book Cave

The other day I spent some time with Ric Croxton and Art Sippo of the Book Cave chatting about my latest novel, The Sea Witch.  Find out the inside scoop and discover just which famous actor was my visual and attitude model for the character Seth Armstrong. Check out The Book Cave podcast by clicking here!

Also, feel free to pick up a copy of The Sea Witch at Amazon, Barnes and Noble, or direct from the PulpWork Press website.