Though it’s nearly ten months away from putting the next issue of The Pulpster into your hands, we’re beginning to line up articles for the 33rd issue of our magazine. Are you interested in contributing? The Pulpster 33 will debut next August at PulpFest 2024.
For over 50 years, PulpFest has celebrated mystery, adventure, science fiction, and more. The theme of PulpFest 2024 will be “Spice, Spies, and Shaw.”
The convention will be celebrating the 90th anniversary of the Spicy pulps, Operator #5, and Secret Agent X, as well as the 150th anniversary of the birth of the legendary Black Mask editor, Joseph T. Shaw. You’ll find all this and much more — including dinosaurs, ERBFest, and FarmerCon XIX — at PulpFest 2024.
We’re always happy to have articles related to our PulpFest themes, but we don’t limit contributions to those topics. We generally have a variety of articles in each issue, including essays related to the men and women who wrote, illustrated, edited, and published the pulps. Others are magazine histories or essays on the pulp-collecting hobby itself.
There are two routes you can take to help us out:
• Do you have an idea for an article that you would like to write for The Pulpster? Please drop us a line and let us know.
• Do you have an idea for an article that you would like to read in The Pulpster, but not necessarily write? Let us know that, too. We will try to recruit someone to write it.
If you have an idea, shoot me an email at bill@pulpfest.com. The sooner I hear from you, the better. I have to plan space for articles and start collecting artwork and illustrations.
And if you’d like to advertise in The Pulpster, please write to the magazine’s publisher Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com. He can provide pricing and print specifications. If you’d like a cover spot, they sell quickly.
And of course, please register for PulpFest 2024 to ensure you get a copy of next year’s issue.
If you’re not able to attend PulpFest in 2024, consider registering as a supporting member. Your free copy of the issue will be mailed to you following the convention. All members of PulpFest — including supporting members — receive a free copy of The Pulpster as part of their membership.
We look forward to hearing from you and hope to see you at our 52nd PulpFest. It’s scheduled for August 1 – 4 at the beautiful DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry in Mars, Pennsylvania. You can make your reservation now by clicking “Book a Room” below our website’s banner.
Our lead image is a preliminary cover for The Pulpster #33. Adapted by Bill Lampkin, the artwork is by H. J. Ward for the August 1940 issue of Spicy Mystery.
Our featured image is excerpted from H. C. Murphy’s cover for Black Mask for September 1929. The issue featured the first segment of Dashiell Hammett’s five-part serial, “The Maltese Falcon,” certainly the most famous work published in the magazine during the editorship of Joseph T. Shaw.
