Shaking the Six Demon Bag with Derrick Ferguson

My erstwhile collaborator and co-conspirator Derrick Ferguson has done an interview with Josh Reynolds' Shaking the Six Demon Bag.  Check it out.

What I've Been Wasting My Time On

I've just finished up a trio of short stories featuring legendary Native American gunman Lone Crow and will be editing them shortly to submit to various Weird West anthologies. I've already had Lone Crow stories published in each of the three How the West was Weird anthologies, Showdown at Midnight, and Six Guns Straight from Hell. There seems to be a pretty good demand for those sort of stories at the moment. On the other hand, I've just started a Gantlet Brothers short story/novella called Sold Out, and there's just about zero market for stories falling into the guns and guitar genre--a genre so obscure that I had to invent a name for it.  Ah well, if I were doing this for the money I'd be writing paranormal romance.

Pulp Factory Awards 2011

PulpWork Press author (and long time friend), Derrick Ferguson, has been nominated in the category of Best Pulp Short Story of 2011 for the Pulp Factory Awards for writing Storms of Blood and Snow.  Storms of Blood and Snow is Derrick's long-awaited return to the weird west with gunfighter and swordsman Sebastian Red.  This story appeared in How the West was Weird 2.

Pulp Ark Nomination

I've received a Pulp Ark 'Best Short Story' nomination for my story Gunmen of the Hollow Earth which appears in How the West was Weird: Campfire Tales (99 cents on Kindle) and features Native American gunfighter Lone Crow.  Also, two anthologies which I contributed to (How the West was Weird II and Four Bullets for Dillon) were nominated in the 'Best Collection/Anthology' category.

Even cooler, my fellow PulpWork Press authors Derrick Ferguson and Joshua Reynolds are nominated for the 'Best Writer' award, and Percival Constantine is nominated for best novel due to his work on Myth Hunter.  MD Jackson, the cover artist extraordinaire for a number of my novels has been nominated for his awesome work on the cover of Strange Gods of the Dire Planet.

Shaking the Six Demon Bag

An interview with me is posted over at Joshua Reynold's Hunting Monsters blog and reveals such secrets as what project I'm currently working on and my beverage of choice.

Outlaw Blues

Pulp Work Press's latest contribution to the guns and guitars genre is Outlaw Blues by Percival Constantine.

Carl Flint was once an assassin, until a mistake on the job led to disastrous consequences. Years later, he’s a broken man, living out his days playing music in a dive bar. He’s convinced by Dante to come out of retirement to kill one more person — Agency operative Christian Pierce.

Now on the run from Pierce’s former partner, Flint has to flee what’s left of his former life. But in his quest to find peace, he’ll have to face off with a Colombian drug cartel. Is this the redemption he’s been searching for, or the final nail in his coffin?

Outlaw Blues is available in print for $8.95 at  Amazon. You can also find the e-book from Smashwords for only $0.99!

Coming in 2012

I've got two books scheduled for release in 2012: Lost Tribes of the Dire Planet (the 5th book of the sword and science fiction series featuring displaced astronaut Garvey Dire) and The Island of Lost Souls which tells the stories of the brother knights Balin and Balan as they combat the duplicitous dealings of a very villainous Merlin.