A big thank you to the many folks who took advantage of our PulpFest Cyber Monday Sale. We appreciate your tremendous support of the convention. By staying at our host hotel, you help to defray the convention’s substantial costs. You also help demonstrate to our hotel that PulpFest is a top-notch convention that will help their bottom line. Thanks for helping to make PulpFest look good.
There are still rooms available at the newly and beautifully renovated DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. You can book your room directly through the PulpFest website. Along the right hand side of our home page at pulpfest.com you’ll find a link that reads “Book a Room for 2017.” Click on this link and you’ll be redirected to a secure site where you can book a room at our host hotel.
You can also reserve a room by calling 1-800-222-8733. Be sure to mention PulpFest in order to receive the convention rate of $125 plus tax per night. Included in the room rate are free Wi-Fi and two complimentary breakfasts per room for both Friday through Sunday. Parking is free!
If you have yet to register for PulpFest 2017 — taking place place July 27 – 30 — the convention is now accepting advance registrations from all parties. Here’s how . . .
For All Members
All PulpFest 2017 members, including dealers, must register for the convention.
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2017 if staying at the DoubleTree: $35 (includes free early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2017 if staying elsewhere: $40 (without early-bird shopping)
Full weekend membership to PulpFest 2017 if staying elsewhere: $70 (with early-bird shopping)
Single-day membership for Friday or Saturday: $20
Single-day membership for Sunday: $10 (available only at the door)
Supporting Membership: $25
Additional Details
Children age 15 and younger, accompanied by an adult, will be admitted for free. However, they must be registered.
Early-bird shopping on Thursday, July 27, is free to members staying at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry. The cost is $30 to members staying elsewhere.
An early-bird membership will get you into the dealers’ room from 6 PM to 9 PM on Thursday, July 27, while our dealers are setting up for the convention. Only staff, dealers, and early-birds will be allowed into the dealers’ room during these hours. Please realize that due to travel conditions and other contingencies, PulpFest cannot guarantee that each and every registered dealer will be available during our early-bird hours. Our evening programming will follow our early-bird shopping on Thursday, July 27.
If you register for a Sunday single-day membership, please be aware that many dealers will be packing up and buying and selling opportunities may be limited.
All paying members, including supporting members, will receive a complementary copy of our program book, THE PULPSTER, a $10 value.
Early registration will be held outside the entrance to our dealers’ room at the DoubleTree by Hilton Hotel Pittsburgh – Cranberry on Thursday evening, July 27, running from 4 PM to 8 PM, and on Friday morning, July 28, running from 9 AM to 10 AM. If you are paying at the door, please have your completed registration form on hand to speed up the process. You’ll be able to pay for your registration at the door using cash, check, or credit card.
Please click here to download our 2017 member registration form. To pay for your membership, please see the instructions below.
For Dealers Only
Island-table rental fee: $80 per table
Wall-table rental fee: $90 per table
Electrical outlets (if needed): $20 per outlet
All dealers and their helpers are also required to purchase a membership to PulpFest 2017.
Additional Details
PulpFest 2017 will have over 100 six-foot tables in its 11,328-square-foot dealers’ room. Wall tables and placement within the dealers’ room will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. Approximately 44 wall tables will be available in our dealers’ room.
There will be no height restrictions on any tables. Displays will be allowed on tables as long as they can stand safely. Please use common sense and courtesy to design your displays. All members registering as dealers must have material for sale at their tables. If you have any special needs — positioning within the room, unique display requirements, and so on — please let us know when you register.
All registered dealers will be profiled in a series of posts that will run on the PulpFest website during the last week of June. Our marketing director, Mike Chomko, will be contacting you about this.
Although the focus of PulpFest 2017 will be pulp magazines and related materials, genre fiction, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies and serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, and Golden and Silver Age comic books can also be sold. Please remember that PulpFest is not a comic book convention. Sexually explicit material, including PLAYBOY, PENTHOUSE, and OUI, will not be allowed.
Dealer set-up will take place on Thursday, July 27 from 4 – 11 PM. Selling to early-bird shoppers will be allowed on July 27, beginning at 6 PM and running until 9 PM. The dealers’ room will be open to dealers on Friday, July 28, beginning at 9 AM. It will open to all PulpFest members beginning at 10 AM. All dealers are expected to be set up on Thursday evening by 11 PM and be open for business on Friday, July 28, at 10 AM. If you are not able to comply, please discuss your needs with convention chairperson Jack Cullers by emailing him at jack@pulpfest.com or writing him at the address noted below.
Please click here to download our 2017 dealer registration form. To pay for your dealer membership, please see the instructions below.
Payment Instructions
The deadline for advance registrations is Monday, 07/24/17 at 10 PM eastern time. To pay for your registration, please send your check or money order to David J. Cullers, 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305 or use our Paypal Order page. If you pay via Paypal, you’ll also have to register via email, providing all of the information required on our registration forms to Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com.
If you have any questions about member or dealer registrations, please write to Jack Cullers at one of the addresses noted above. If you’d like a copy of our PulpFest 2017 newsletter — packed with information about the convention — you can download a copy by clicking here or by writing to Jack Cullers at one of the addresses noted above.
(Designed by PulpFest’s artistic director, William Lampkin, our PulpFest 2017 post card features the work of artist John Newton Howitt. His painting was originally used as the cover for the April 15, 1934 number of Popular Publications’ DIME DETECTIVE MAGAZINE.
The back of our PulpFest 2017 post card features the work of Norman Saunders. His painting was originally used as the cover for the May 1936 issue of SAUCY ROMANTIC ADVENTUES, a short-lived title published by Fiction Magazines, Inc.)
