On the day the United States honors America’s laborers, the PulpFest organizing committee is happy to announce the addition of a new committee member who will help to mount our 2023 convention.
Please welcome Craig McDonald to the PulpFest organizing committee. Having contributed significantly to our website since October 2021, Craig is already a familiar name to readers of our PulpFest page. He’ll be the convention’s social media director, working primarily with our new PulpFest YouTube Channel. Be sure to subscribe.
The author of the Edgar-nominated Hector Lassiter historical crime series, Craig McDonald is an award-winning novelist, journalist, and editor. The twelve volumes in his Lassiter series chronicle the exploits of a fictional Black Mask author and his encounters with such notable figures as Lester Dent, Ian Fleming, Ernest Hemingway, and Orson Welles. In addition to his Edgar nomination, Craig was also a finalist for the Anthony, Gumshoe, and Crimespree Magazine Award for best first novel. He earned national awards for his profiles of crime novelists James Crumley, Elmore Leonard, James Sallis, and Daniel Woodrell.
At PulpFest 50, Craig debuted a new series of literary thrillers in which classic pulp magazine heroes literally come to life. A haunting mix of history and meta-fiction centered on the very act of literary creation, The Blood Ogre introduces Zana O’Savin, the award-winning author’s version of Doc Savage’s cousin Pat.
Pulp is back and better than ever in Craig McDonald’s The Blood Ogre. It’s available in both hardcover and trade paperback from Amazon.
Have a wonderful Labor Day and remember that the 2022 Mid-Atlantic Nostalgia Convention is coming up in less than two weeks. Bringing thousands of people together for 16 years, it will take place at the Hunt Valley Delta Marriott in Hunt Valley, Maryland from September 15 -17. Click here to learn more.
Emile C. Tepperman, IV has been writing occasionally for our website since 2017. He is purportedly the great-grandson of pulp author Emile Clemens Tepperman, who is best remembered for the thirteen-part Purple Invasion series that he penned for Popular Publications’ Secret Service Operator #5.
Tepperman the First also wrote a number of the lead novels for Secret Agent X and The Spider (including “The Mill-Town Massacres” to the February 1937 number, featuring cover art by John Newton Howitt) and contributed the Suicide Squad stories to Popular’s Ace G-Man Stories. Other series written by Tepperman included the Marty Quade stories for Ten Detective Aces, Ed Race, The Masked Marksman for The Spider, and six short stories featuring the Street & Smith pulp hero known as The Avenger. He also wrote for radio.
We thank Emile IV for his contributions to pulpfest.com over the years. Thanks as well to Neil Mechem for The Spider cover scan. If you are interested in volunteering for PulpFest, please click the “contact” button on our homepage and let us know how you can help.
We’ll be celebrating 90th anniversary of The Spider and other great heroes at PulpFest 2023 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Pittsburgh — Cranberry from August 3 – 6.
