If your specialty is pulp magazines, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, first edition hardcovers, original art, series books, dime novels, men’s adventure, true crime, digest, or slick magazines, Big Little Books, B-movies, serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, or Golden, Silver, or Bronze Age comic books, then PulpFest is for you.
The people who attend PulpFest are pop culture enthusiasts and lovers of genre fiction and art. So it’s a great place to sell science fiction, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, original artwork, and more. And it doesn’t have to be old! Publishers such as Adventure House, Age of Aces, and Murania Press do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books. Contemporary authors and publishers such as William Patrick Maynard, Will Murray, and Flinch Books have likewise found PulpFest to be a great event for selling today’s genre fiction. After all, our afternoon programming centers around today’s writers of genre fiction!
The exhibition hall at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry will enable PulpFest 2021 to have over 100 six-foot tables in its dealers’ room. Wall tables — which are limited — will cost $100 and island tables will be $90. All dealers and their helpers will also be required to purchase full weekend memberships. Advance memberships cost $35 – 40. You can click here to download the convention’s 2021 registration form. For additional registration information, please click the “registration” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage.
To reserve a room at the DoubleTree by Hilton, please click the button that reads the “Book a Room” button at the top of the PulpFest webpage. You can also reserve a room by calling 1-800-222-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest to receive the special convention rate of $129 plus tax per night.
Two complimentary breakfast coupons are included in our hotel’s nightly rate as well as free wifi and parking. Rest assured, PulpFest is very appreciative of all the dealers who help to reduce the convention’s substantial costs by staying at the DoubleTree and supporting our host hotel.
Our dealers’ room will be open at 10 AM on Friday and Saturday, August 20 – 21, and remain open until 4:45 PM. It will also be open on Sunday, August 22, from 9 AM until 2 PM. And don’t forget about our early-bird shopping hours on Thursday, August 19, from 1 to 5 PM. Dedicated fans of popular culture will be there to enjoy four hours of early shopping.
The convention will be promoted through Internet advertising and postcard giveaways at book and comic shops, collectibles and pop culture events, and other venues. PulpFest will also be advertising in DIGEST ENTHUSIAST, PAPERBACK PARADE, and other periodicals.
In early August, we’ll be posting about all of the dealers who will be selling at PulpFest 2021. Our marketing and programming director, Mike Chomko, will be putting these posts together and releasing them through our homepage and social media sites.
So what are you waiting for? Start planning now to attend PulpFest 2021 as a dealer and sell to hundreds of readers and collectors at the pop-culture center of the universe!
We look forward to seeing you from August 19 – 22 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry, just nineteen miles north of Pittsburgh in Mars, Pennsylvania. Please join us at PulpFest 2021 — “Summer’s AMAZING Pulp Con” — where your sales will simply be FANTASTIC!
For more information on selling at PulpFest, please contact registration director and convention chairperson Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com. Jack can also be reached by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305.
Love will be in the air at PulpFest 2021. Shadows too! Just like PulpFest advertising director William Lampkin’s adaption of Graves Gladney’s cover art for the February 1, 1941 issue of THE SHADOW aptly demonstrates.
The summertime convention for fans of popular culture both old and new will celebrate the anniversaries of two trend-setting Street & Smith rough-paper magazines. At this year’s PulpFest, we’ll salute the centennial of LOVE STORY MAGAZINE and the 90th anniversary of THE SHADOW. While the former was the bestselling pulp of all time, inspiring countless imitators to enter the romance field, the latter set off the hero pulp explosion of the 1930s. We hope you’ll join us for “Love in the Shadows.”
