With PulpFest moving to Pennsylvania’s Steel City, the “New Pulp” community has decided to help promote the convention by holding two separate book signings in the Pittsburgh area over the con weekend. PulpFest 2017 will take place from Thursday evening, July 27, through Sunday afternoon, July 30.
Starting at 7 PM on Friday, July 28, the Barnes & Noble located in the Monroeville Mall, 200 Mall Circle Drive, in Monroeville, PA will host new pulp writers Fred Adams, Jr., Jim Beard, Wayne Carey, and Tommy Hancock.
Beginning at 10 AM on Saturday, July 29, Rickert & Beagle Books, 3233 W. Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, will host authors Fred Adams Jr., Barbara Doran, John Simcoe, and David White.
These seven writers are among the finest in new pulp fiction and are only a few of the dozens of talented authors and artists who will be attending PulpFest 2017.
Created to continue and preserve the legacy of this unique literary form, the convention is open to the public. You can join PulpFest for a day or the entire weekend by clicking the Register for 2017 button found on our home page. And if you’re not from the Pittsburgh area, don’t forget to book a room at the DoubleTree. They’re going fast! Please call 1-800-222-8733 and be sure to mention PulpFest in order to receive any convention special deals that may still be available.
(Jim Beard was introduced to comic books by his father. His dad passed on to Jim a love for the medium and the pulp characters that preceded it. After decades of reading, collecting, and dissecting comics, Jim became a published writer when he sold a story to DC Comics in 2002. Since then, he’s written official Spider-Man, X-Files, and Planet of the Apes prose fiction, Star Wars and Ghostbusters comic stories, and contributed articles and essays to several volumes of comic book history.
A native of Toledo where he provides regular content for Marvel.com, the official Marvel Comics website, Jim broke into the world of “New Pulp” in 2012 when Airship 27 published SGT. JANUS, SPIRIT-BREAKER, a collection of ghost stories featuring an occult detective, and CAPTAIN ACTION: RIDDLE OF THE GLOWING MEN, the first prose novel based on the 1960s action figure. Along with John Bruening, Jim is the founder and publisher of Flinch Books, a small press offering some of the best material to be inspired by the pulp fiction of the past. RESTLESS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MUMMY HORROR, with cover art by Shannon Hall, is just one of the many fine books published in the “new pulp” field.)
