PulpFest is proud that over 30 popular fiction writers will be attending our 2019 convention. “Back in the day,” the authors who labored for the rough paper industry liked to call themselves scribes, word-slingers, penny-a-worders, and, perhaps the most favored term of all, fictioneers. Join PulpFest as we celebrate today’s fictioneers — the authors writing today’s pulp fiction! On Friday and Saturday, we’ll feature nine authors reading from their works and answering questions from the audience.
Reading from their works on Friday, August 16
12:30 – 1:05 PM — Wayne Carey.
A regular contributor to QUATERMAIN: THE NEW ADVENTURES, published by Airship 27, Wayne Carey has gained recognition as one of the finest New Pulp writers for both Airship 27 and Pro Se Press. His passion for Edgar Rice Burroughs, H. G. Wells, Isaac Asimov, Talbot Mundy, Robert E. Howard, and H. Rider Haggard informs and permeates his own fiction. Carey’s pulp influences coalesced in his new adventures of Haggard’s seminal adventurer, Allan Quatermain. He has contributed both novels and short stories to the expanded Quatermain canon, including ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE BEAST MEN and ALLAN QUATERMAIN AND THE LIGHTNING BIRD. His most recent addition is the short story, “The Unholy Alliance” appearing in Volume Five of Airship 27’s QUATERMAIN: THE NEW ADVENTURES anthology series. Join Wayne Carey Friday afternoon, August 16, at PulpFest for a sampling of his thrilling pulp adventure works.
1:10- 1:45 PM — Craig McDonald.
Author of the Edgar-nominated HECTOR LASSITER historical crime series, Craig McDonald is an award-winning novelist, journalist and editor. The HECTOR LASSITER series chronicles the exploits of a fictional BLACK MASK author and his encounters with such notable figures as Ernest Hemingway, Orson Welles, Ian Fleming, and Lester Dent. McDonald’s internationally acclaimed works have found a global audience and have also been adapted in graphic novel format. His works have been published by Simon & Schuster and Macmillan Press. Meet Craig McDonald Friday afternoon, August 16, at PulpFest and become a fan of Hector Lassiter’s adventures in Hollywood, Paris, Key West, Cuba, Vienna, Berlin, Brazil, Mexico, the Midwest, and the Deep South. McDonald has created, in Hector Lassiter, the perfect vehicle to chart the key events of the last century that did so much to shape the present world. Pulp fiction of literate quality is a rarity to be cherished and Craig McDonald has earned entry in that rarified strata.
1:50- 2:25 PM — Joab Stieglitz.
The author of the UTGARDA pulp adventure series, Joab Stieglitz has crossed his love for cosmic horror and fantasy and Role-Playing Games into a Lovecraftian occult horror series that will appeal to pulp fans, Cthulhu Mythos acolytes, gamers, and horror movie fans in equal measure. The UTGARDA trilogy comprises three titles: THE OLD MAN’S REQUEST, THE MISSING MEDIUM, and THE OTHER REALM. The UTGARDA trilogy is a fast-paced, well-written supernatural thriller that channels H. P. Lovecraft and August Derleth’s Cthulhu Mythos in detailing the unspeakable entity that was unleashed upon the world in the 1920s by The Cabal. Come meet Joab Stieglitz in person Friday afternoon, August 16, at PulpFest as he ushers UTGARDA into the 21st Century.
2:30- 3:05 PM — Christopher Paul Carey.
Please note that this reading has been replaced in the schedule by our “Enter the Edgar Rice Burroughs Universe” panel. Christopher Paul Carey will be serving as the panel’s moderator.
Recently named the Director of Publishing for Edgar Rice Burroughs, Inc., Christopher Paul Carey is also among the most accomplished of the stable of licensed authors in THE WILD ADVENTURES OF EDGAR RICE BURROUGHS series. He is also the authorized continuation chronicler of Philip Jose Farmer’s KHOKARSA series that bridges the works of Edgar Rice Burroughs and H. Rider Haggard. Carey has authored the novels SWORDS AGAINST THE MOON MEN, BLOOD OF ANCIENT OPAR, HADON — KING OF OPAR, EXILES OF KHO, and THE SONG OF KWASIN. He is also an accomplished editor, comic book writer, essayist, and author of short fiction. A tireless champion of Wold Newtonian chronologies and Pathfinder RPG publications, Carey’s work stands out for its literate, often tragic view of history and empires that rise and fall from the actions of flawed characters who changed their world. Come meet Christopher Paul Carey in person at PulpFest Friday afternoon, August 16.
3:10 – 3:50 PM — William Patrick Maynard.
The licensed continuation author of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu thrillers, William Patrick Maynard has written hundreds of articles for BlackGate.com, TheCimmerian.com, and DMRBooks.com among others. He has also contributed audio commentaries, liner notes, and rare footage to DVD and Blu-Ray releases by MGM, Shout Factory, Kino Lorber, and The Serial Squadron. His short fiction and essays have appeared in numerous publications from Titan Books, Black Coat Press, EDGE Publishing, Airship 27, MX Books, Stark House Press, Black Dog Books, and Meteor House. Maynard is among the editorial staff of The Battered Silicon Dispatch Box and also serves as Assistant Director of Marketing for PulpFest. Come meet William Patrick Maynard in person at PulpFest Friday afternoon, August 16.
PulpFest 2019 will begin on Thursday, August 15, and run through Sunday, August 18. Join PulpFest at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just north of Pennsylvania’s “Steel City” of Pittsburgh. We’ll be celebrating “Children of the Pulps and Other Stories” at this year’s gathering. Click our Programming button below our homepage banner to get a preview of all the great presentations at this year’s event.
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(Our featured image for this post is a photograph of a Remington Noiseless 8 typewriter from 1937. Writers believed to have used Remingtons — “unrivaled in popularity until the Underwood locomotive roared onto the scene” — include Agatha Christie, Arthur C. Clarke, Harlan Ellison, William Faulkner, Dashiell Hammett, L. Ron Hubbard, Rudyard Kipling, Stan Lee, Sinclair Lewis, H. P. Lovecraft, H. L.Mencken, George Orwell, Ernie Pyle, Damon Runyon, Cornell Woolrich, and Philip Wylie.)
