PRO SE PRESENTS #7-PUTTIN' THE MONTHLY BACK INTO PULP!

Pro Se Productions announces the latest issue in its Award Winning Magazine line! Recognized as the Best Pulp Magazine for 2011 by the Pulp Ark 2012 Awards, Pro Se Presents #7 Brings Thrills and Chills Like None You've Ever Seen! Fan Favorite The Silver Manticore returns for another story! Noted New Pulp Author Van Allen Plexico debuts his latest novel character, HAWK, in a story exclusive for Pro Se! And Frank Schildiner's newest Weird Hero, Lee Cohen, Monster Mobster, debuts and is featured on this stunning cover by Sean E. Ali! Get Scared, Spaced, and Masked all in this issue of PRO SE PRESENTS!

Pro Se Presents #7 is now available in print for $6.00 at https://www.createspace.com/3807811, at www.prosepulp.com, and on Amazon this week! Also available for $1.99 as an Ebook on Kindle via Amazon, on the Nook via Barnes & Noble, and in all formats at www.smashwords.com!

Featuring the fantastic Formatting and Design work of Sean E. Ali, including a stunning cover spotlighting Schildiner's story, as well as interiors by Ali and Rowell Roque, Pro Se Presents #7 continues the Pro Se Mission of Puttin' The Monthly Back Into Pulp!

New Pulp Best Seller List (Based on Amazon Sales Ranks 2/27/12)

Reposted from http://barryreese.net

It’s that time again! Before I unveil the Top Ten, let’s go over a few of the ground rules, shall we? Those of you who have been keeping up with the list for awhile will notice a few changes in how I’m doing the list!

1) This list only tracks sales through AMAZON. It does not keep track of sales through Barnes and Noble, face-to-face or anything else!
2) This list only tracks PRINT sales. We do not currently track e-books. Exactly how Amazon calculates those things is mostly a trade secret and they vary wildly from day to day. If I checked this tomorrow, the list could be very different. This list reflects sales ranks as of Monday February 27, 2012.
3) In order to keep the focus on new releases, eligible works must have been published within three months of the current date. So, since this list is being done in February 2012, I’m only looking at books published since November 2011. Please keep that in mind before complaining that Title X is not listed.
4) I am no longer tracking pre-release orders. Some publishers never actually release their books and when they do, it’s months after they were supposed to be released. Everything listed in the Top Ten is currently for sale.
5) I am human. I make mistakes. If you are aware of a title that should be listed below (keeping in mind all the rules above), please let me know and I will make sure to remedy the situation.

Without further ado, here’s the completely and totally unofficial New Pulp bestseller list as of right now (title, then publisher, then release date, then sales rank):

1) Under the Moons of Mars by Various (Simon & Schuster, February 2012) – 8,919
2) Doc Savage: Horror in Gold by Will Murray (Altus Press, December 2011) – 61,708
3) Heroes of Mars by Various (Pulp Empire, February 2012) – 251,524
4) Sherlock Holmes: The Baron’s Revenge by Gary Lovisi (Airship 27, February 2012) – 299,762
5) The New Adventures of Richard Knight by Various (Pro Se Press, January 2012) – 442,990
6) The Global Star by Various (Pro Se Press, February 2012) – 566,632
7) The Adventures of Dodge Dalton on the High Road to Oblivion by Sean Ellis (Seven Realms, January 2011) – 740,592
8 ) Challenger Storm: Isle of Blood (Airship 27, November 2011) -772,605
9) Deathwalker by R.A. Jones (Airship 27, February 2012) – 1,082,391
10) Felony Fists: Fight Card by Paul Bishop (Fight Card Productions, November 2011) – 1,527,736

Just missing the list was The Cutman by Jack Tunney (Fight Card Productions, December 2011) – 1,620,446, The Adventures of Fortune McCall by Derrick Ferguson (Pro Se Press, December 2011) – 1,628,159 and Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 8: Agents Provocateurs (Black Coat Press, November 2011) – 2,025,340.

Expect the list to look very different next week as several titles fall off our three-month eligibility qualifier (since our next report will be in March) and Airship 27 should have at least one new release by then. This time around, Airship 27 retains three spots in the top ten (#4, 8 & 9), giving them the most titles in the list. The Richard Knight book from Pro Se moves up to # 5 this week while their new release (Global Star) has a strong debut at # 6. Both Dodge Dalton and Challenger Storm continue to show strong sales and are definitely worthy of a special mention.

Take it all with a grain of salt, folks.

The Latest Episode of Pro Se Presents- A Plethora of Pro Se!  Join Tommy and Derrick Ferguson as they discuss Pro Se's upcoming work in general while hitting on several specifics!  Also, learn the words of the day! (Hint-Plethora and Bevy!)

PULP ARK 2012 AWARDS ANNOUNCED!

Tommy Hancock, Editor in Chief of Pro Se Productions and Pulp Ark Coordinator, announces that voting has closed for the 2012 Pulp Ark Awards, the first awards given in association with this inaugural Pulp creators' conference/convention.

The Winners of the 2012 Pulp Ark Awards are-

BEST NOVEL-Yesteryear by Tommy Hancock (Pro Se Productions)

BEST COLLECTION/ANTHOLOGY-Four Bullets for Dillon (Pulpwork Press)

BEST SHORT STORY- The Devil’s Workmen by Barry Reese-The Avenger: The Justice Inc Files (Moonstone)

BEST COVER ART-Hugh Monn, Private Detective-by David Russell (Pro Se Productions)

BEST INTERIOR ART-The Adventures of Lazarus Gray-George Sellas (Pro Se Productions)

BEST PULP RELATED COMIC-All Star Pulp Comics #1 (Airship 27 Productions)

BEST PULP MAGAZINE-Pro Se Presents (Pro Se Productions)

BEST PULP REVIVAL-The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage by Will Murray (Altus Press)

BEST NEW PULP CHARACTER- John Blackthorn Created by Van Allen Plexico (White Rocket Books)

BEST AUTHOR-Teel James Glenn

BEST NEW WRITER-TIE Sean Taylor And Chuck Miller

LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD-Howard Hopkins

The awards, 8X10 engraved wooden plaques, will be awarded in the middle of Pulp Ark, the evening of Saturday, April 21, 2012. Hancock stated that all winners as well as nominees are encouraged to attend, but any winners who could not would receive their awards by mail. Pulp Ark thanks all who nominated, all who voted, and congratulations to all the nominees and especially to the winners of the Pulp Ark 2012 Awards!

For any questions concerning Pulp Ark, contact Hancock at proseproductions@earthlink.net or follow Pulp Ark news at www.pulpark.blogspot.com

ALL PULP: PULP OBSCURA PUBLISHERS VISIT EARTH STATION ONE

New Pulpster's Van Allen Plexico, Tommy Hancock, and Matthew Moring join Bobby Nash, Mike Faber, and Mike Gordon on the Earth Station One podcast.

Earth Station One Episode 99: And So It Begins 

          This week, Bobby Nash takes command and we travel to deep space to visit the station known as the "last, best hope for peace." The name of the place is Babylon 5! Writer Van Allen Plexico joins the crew to discuss this landmark series. We also strap Tommy Hancock and Matthew Moring to the Geek Seat and they reveal the new line of books from Pulp Obscura. Plus, Scott Viguie reports on Gallifrey One!

Join us for yet another episode of The Earth Station One Podcast we like to call: And So It Begins at http://www.esopodcast.com/.
Direct link: http://erthstationone.wordpress.com/2012/02/22/earth-station-one-episode-99-and-so-it-begins/

Table of Contents
0:00:00 Intro / Welcome
0:03:47 Rants & Raves
0:32:56 Pulp Obsura Guys in the Geek Seat
1:05:45 Babylon 5
2:17:36 Khan Report
2:27:26 Gallifrey One w/ Scott Viguie
2:47:29 Shout Outs
2:54:43 Show Close

Khan! Report
Feb 24-26 AnachroCon (Atlanta, GA)
Feb 24-26 GalaxyFest (Colorado Springs, CO)
Feb 24-26 Image Comics Expo (Oakland, CA)
Feb 25-26 London Super Comic Convention
Mar 9-11 Days of the Dead: Atlanta
Mar 10-11 Metropolis Supercon
Mar 16-18 MomoCon (Atlanta, GA)
Mar 16-18 WonderCon (Anaheim, CA)
Mar 18 Joelanta (Atlanta, GA)
Mar 23-25 Mad Monster Party (Charlotte, NC)
Mar 30-Apr 1 Emerald City Comicon
Apr 6-8 Marcon (Columbus, OH)

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Next on Earth Station One...

Next week, Earth Station One turns 100. That’s right. ESO reaches episode 100 and we’ve invited some of our friends to stop by the station for a night of fun, friendship, and discussions of all things geeky. Special guests Mark Maddox, Anthony Taylor, Peter Cutler, and Doctor Q join Mike Faber, Mike Gordon, and Bobby Nash for a 100th episode celebration.

We would love to hear from you. What are some of your favorite memories from the first 100 episodes? Let us know at http://www.esopodcast.com/, at the ESO Facebook Group, email us at esopodcast@gmail.com, or call us at 404-963-9057 with your list. We might just read yours on the show. Or just call us up and say hi.

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GLOBAL STAR HITS THE STANDS!

PRO SE’S LATEST-‘GLOBAL STAR’-HITS THE STANDS!

THE TABLOID WHERE ALL NEWS IS THE TRUTH!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-

Pro Se Productions, a leading Publisher of New Pulp, proudly announces its latest release, a three story collection crafted by a Trio of Top Talents, all about a Supermarket Tabloid where all the Stories within its pages are true!  GLOBAL STAR delivers tongue in cheek pulpy goodness, satirical wit, and more weirdness than you can shake an alien cabana boy at, all thanks to the wonderful storytelling skills of R. A. Jones, Mel Odom, and Michael Vance.

Want to fly headlong into Alien Abductions? Ready to hunt Mysterious Monsters in the Bowels of Your City? Curious about what Elvis has been up to since He Got Laid Off? Find the Story Behind the Stories, the Truth too True To Print in the GLOBAL STAR! Jones, Vance, and Odom relate the exploits of the finest editors, colorful reporters, and raucous staffers working on the world's one tabloid where every word is true! Follow these pen and paper pushers as they go anywhere, do anything, and stop at nothing to bring you the news that makes the Global Star the greatest newspaper on-and off- Earth! Get the whole story in this tongue in cheek satire riddled New Pulp funfest from Pro Se- GLOBAL STAR Is the paper for the best news you’d never believe!

GLOBAL STAR, with fantastic cover and interior design by Sean E. Ali, is available via Amazon as well as Pro Se’s own site (www.prosepulp.com) for $12.00 in print and can be snatched up from Amazon for the Kindle, Barnes and Noble for the Nook, and in various and sundry digital formats from www.smashwords.com for $2.99!  Don’t wait for the werewolves to babysit your babies born with bowling balls in their stomachs!  Read all about that and more now in GLOBAL STAR, the latest book from Pro Se Productions!

For Author information and interviews or any further press release information, please contact proseproductions@earthlink.net and find Pro Se at www.prosepulp.com!

New Pulp Best Seller List (Based on Amazon Sales Ranks 2/20/12)

It’s that time again! Before I unveil the Top Ten, let’s go over a few of the ground rules, shall we? Those of you who have been keeping up with the list for awhile will notice a few changes in how I’m doing the list!

1) This list only tracks sales through AMAZON. It does not keep track of sales through Barnes and Noble, face-to-face or anything else!
2) This list only tracks PRINT sales. We do not currently track e-books. Exactly how Amazon calculates those things is mostly a trade secret and they vary wildly from day to day. If I checked this tomorrow, the list could be very different. This list reflects sales ranks as of Monday February 20, 2012.
3) In order to keep the focus on new releases, eligible works must have been published within three months of the current date. So, since this list is being done in February 2012, I’m only looking at books published since November 2011. Please keep that in mind before complaining that Title X is not listed.
4) I am no longer tracking pre-release orders. Some publishers never actually release their books and when they do, it’s months after they were supposed to be released. Everything listed in the Top Ten is currently for sale.
5) I am human. I make mistakes. If you are aware of a title that should be listed below (keeping in mind all the rules above), please let me know and I will make sure to remedy the situation.

Without further ado, here’s the completely and totally unofficial New Pulp bestseller list as of right now (title, then publisher, then release date, then sales rank):

1) Under the Moons of Mars by Various (Simon & Schuster, February 2012) – 8,377
2) Doc Savage: Horror in Gold by Will Murray (Altus Press, December 2011) – 29,707
3) Sherlock Holmes: The Baron’s Revenge by Gary Lovisi (Airship 27, February 2012) – 137,972
4) The Adventures of Dodge Dalton on the High Road to Oblivion by Sean Ellis (Seven Realms, January 2011) – 227,424
5) Deathwalker by R.A. Jones (Airship 27, February 2012) – 687,578
6) Challenger Storm: Isle of Blood (Airship 27, November 2011) -763,731
7) Felony Fists: Fight Card by Paul Bishop (Fight Card Productions, November 2011) – 1,148,963
8 ) The Adventures of Fortune McCall by Derrick Ferguson (Pro Se Press, December 2011) – 1,259,187
9) The New Adventures of Richard Knight by Various (Pro Se Press, January 2012) – 1,495,157
10) Tales of the Shadowmen Volume 8: Agents Provocateurs (Black Coat Press, November 2011) - 1,826,497

Just missing the list was Tales of the Vagabond Bards by Nancy Hansen (Pro Se Press, January 2012) – 1,838,494 and Pro Se Presents # 6 by Various (Pro Se Press, January 2012) – 2,028,839.

The big guns remain locked in at # 1 & 2. After that, you have something interesting developing as Airship 27 and Pro Se Press definitely seem to be the biggest of the smaller press New Pulp publishers, with Airship staking out spots 3, 5 & 6, while Pro Se comes in at 8 & 9, along with two books that just miss cracking the top ten.

Special mention has to go out to Seven Realms’ new Dodge Dalton book, which is providing a very strong showing.

Take it all with a grain of salt, folks.

PULP ARK 2012 LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT WINNER ANNOUNCED

As first announced on PULPED (www.pulped.libsyn.com) today, the Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award Recipient for 2012 has been selected.  Tommy Hancock, partner in Pro Se Productions, the sponsor of PULP ARK, the Official New Pulp Convention as well as the founder and organizer of Pulp Ark, reported to PULPED! host Ron Fortier that the selection process for the Lifetime Achievement Award, established in 2011, had been completed and a recipient named.

Although 11 other Pulp Ark Awards that will be given at Pulp Ark 2012 were selected by public nomination and then voting of those who nominated, the process for selecting the Lifetime Achievement winner was different.  Ten people considered to be involved in the New Pulp Movement significantly at this point were invited to participate on the Lifetime Achievement Selection Committee.  Each of these Committee members were given an opportunity to nominate three people for the Award.  The top three from these nominations were then placed on a ballot and the Committee voted from that ballot.  The members of the Committee included, Hancock, Barry Reese, Derrick Ferguson, Ron Fortier, Bobby Nash, Art Sippo, Van Plexico, Matt Moring, Michael Brown, and Joe Gentile.

To qualify for the recognition, a person must have been heavily involved in Pulp in some capacity significantly for at least ten years and had a known impact on Pulp.  According to Hancock, the recipient of this year's Pulp Ark Lifetime Achievement Award is Howard Hopkins.

Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Arron of the Black Forest: The Haunting of Dragon’s Cliff - by Phil Athans and Mel Odom

          Arron is the last of his kind. The sole survivor of the Twelve Tribes of the Black Forest. And he's on the run. Pursued through a raging hurricane by a ruthless bounty hunter known as the Hound, Arron is driven into the dark embrace of a crumbling old house on the edge of the world. The mansion once known as Dragon's Cliff hasn't seen a living soul in decades. And what waits within has grown impatient. Ruled by greed and hate, the spirits that call Dragon's Cliff home want Arron as much as the bounty hunter does. But all the Hound wants is Arron's head. The ghosts have more gruesome plans. The New York Times best-selling fantasy author Philip Athans and veteran storyteller Mel Odom join forces to create a new sword and sorcery adventure series in the tradition of Robert E. Howard, Edgar Rice Burroughs, and H.P. Lovecraft. But Arron isn't your grandfather's barbarian. This is a whole new world of adventure. This is the world of Arron of the Black Forest!

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Knight Moves (Black Knight Chronicles) - by: John G. Hartness

          In the third installment of The Black Knight Chronicles, vampire private investigators Jimmy Black and Greg Knightwood find another vampire (or more) playing in their sandbox, and the boys are NOT happy about it. While tracking down the killer of a young college student, they encounter boobytraps, defenestration, coeds, a hirsute bounty hunter with a moon fetish and a bad attitude, and worst of all - game night at a comic shop! 

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - The Myth Hunter - by: Percival Constantine

          Ancient civilizations. Gods and monsters. All the legends of the world have elements of truth to them. And to track down those legends, there are the myth hunters. Some of them, like Elisa Hill, are explorers, trying to learn more about the world we live in. And some are soldiers of fortune, whose only goal is to profit off them. When evidence proving the existence of the lost continent of Lemuria, Elisa embarks on a journey for the truth. And her quest will take her from the oceans of the Caribbean to the temples of India and the Ryukyu Islands of Japan. But it's a race against time, because the mysterious sect known as the Order and a ruthless myth hunter named Seth are also after the secrets of Lemuria!

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Challenger Storm - Isle of Blood - by: Don Gates

          The first in a brand new pulp series featuring a classic adventure in the 30s mold of daring do. Challenger and his loyal band of men venture to a mysterious southern island to rescue the daughter of a wealthy American financier. But what is the strange secret of the flooding rocks and the Goddess of Death they will encounter. Cover and interior art are by the award winning legendary illustrator, Michael Wm. Kaluta. This is one pulp premier readers do not want to miss!!

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Pro Se Presents 6 - January 2012

Authored by 

James Palmer,
PJ Lozito, 
Ashley Mangin, 
Ken Janssens, 
Don Thomas















          Pro Se Presents #6 Kicks off the Year with 'The Hand of Yogul' From James Palmer and continues on with supernatural mystery from Ken Janssens, masked avenging from PJ Lozito, and the introduction of a brand new character by brand new writer Ashley Mangin! Also, A Comic written by Don Thomas-The Origin of the Rapier! All of this and more this month in Pro Se Presents #6! Puttin' the Monthly Back into Pulp!

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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Fortune's Pawn - by: Nancy Hansen

          Prophecy foretells of a Child of Three Races who will grow up to unite the scattered protectors of the Light World in the north. In a time of great upheaval, a young woman begins a journey of adventure and discovery decreed by fate. Will she live to meet her destiny as the mother of a savior, when the forces of good and evil conspire to make her a pawn in the game of conquest? Pro Se Press is proud to introduce a tremendously talented new voice into the world of New Pulp Fantasy Fiction. Nancy Hansen creates characters that live and breathe off the page and fill the reader with all the drama, danger, tension, and terror that true Fantasy Fiction should evoke. FORTUNE'S PAWN is the beginning of a New Pulp Fantasy adventure like no other!

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PULP OBSCURA ADDS CHARACTERS FROM PULP'S GREATEST AUTHOR!

Pro Se Productions, an up and coming Publisher in the New Pulp field and known for original characters, announces today an exciting addition to its first foray into classic Pulp characters, the PULP OBSCURA line.

As previously announced, Pro Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press, the premier producer of Pulp Reprints as well as the Publisher of The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage written by Will Murray, will be producing collections of New Pulp tales based on characters that Altus is reprinting.  These characters will not necessarily be the better-known Pulp characters, but rather largely unknown and forgotten heroes and villains from Pulp’s Golden Era.  Although many of these characters, such as Richard Knight, the aviator hero featured in the first PULP OBSCURA volume from Pro Se, are currently in the Public Domain, Pro Se reveals today that not only will there be volumes of PULP OBSCURA involving characters requiring permission and licensing to use, but the two characters currently in question were created by possibly the best known and respected Classic Pulp Author ever.

“Pro Se is absolutely proud,” Tommy Hancock, Partner in and Editor-in-Chief of Pro Se Productions stated, “to be able to say that with the sanction of the representative of the heirs of Norma Dent, PULP OBSCURA will include collections featuring brand new tales written by modern writers of two heroes created and originally written by Lester Dent.” 

Later in 2012, Altus Press has plans to reprint the original stories written by Lester Dent of two of his characters, both falling into the ‘gadget detective’ category, a particular niche that Dent often wrote in and one that definitely carried over into his Doc Savage stories.  These two characters, Foster Fade, the Crime Spectacularist and Lynn Lash will appear in Altus reprint editions and will also appear in anthologies of New Pulp tales featuring the characters as companion volumes to the Altus reprints.

“I can’t really express,” Hancock said, “how absolutely cool it is to be able to be a part of bringing two classic Dent characters back to life in a sense.   Although some Pulp Fans, particularly Dent devotees, are aware of Fade and Lash, they are largely unknown characters to many readers today.  To be able to not only have their original adventures in print again with Altus Press, but to also be producing and creating brand new stories to continue where Mr. Dent left off and to bring awareness to not just these characters, but to the wonderful variety of characters that still live from the Pulp Age as well as the lesser known work of Dent himself, its simply astounding for me to even be associated with it.”

Although definite dates for publishing have not been established, Hancock stated that recruiting the writers for the first two anthologies, one featuring each character, would begin immediately and would follow the same standard applied to previous PULP OBSCURA titles.  Anyone interested in having the opportunity to propose a tale for either THE NEW ADVENTURES OF FOSTER FADE, THE CRIME SPECTACULARIST VOLUME ONE or THE NEW ADVENTURES OF LYNN LASH VOLUME ONE simply needs to email Hancock at proseproductions@earthlink.net.   Those interested will then, according to Hancock, be given an opportunity to make proposals in the coming days.

“Thanks,” Hancock stated, “to Matt Moring from Altus Press for coming to Pro Se and wanting to bring new life to all these classic characters that have sat dormant far too long. And much appreciation to Will Murray and the Dent heirs for allowing Pro Se and the writers we’ll gather to be a part of something the man many of us consider the best Pulp creator ever started.”

PRO SE PRESENTS-THE PODCAST!

Press Release

Pro Se Productions, a noted New Pulp Publisher, debuts its very own podcast featuring the creators behind the magic and mayhem that is Pro Se.  This initial episode, hosted by Pro Se Partner and Editor-in-Chief Tommy Hancock, features four of the six writers involved in the debut volume of Pro Se’s latest line of New Pulp Novels, Pulp Obscura!  Ian Watson, Adam Lance Garcia, Barry Reese, and Frank Schildiner join Hancock in discussing their tales and take in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF RICHARD KNIGHT, a volume of new stories featuring an obscure Pulp character.  This volume, as with other Pulp Obscura titles, act as companions to volumes of reprints of the featured character printed by Altus Press!  Enjoy the information, the discussion, the hilarity, and more that makes this project and Pro Se Productions!  And tune in EVERY THURSDAY for a new episode of PRO SE PRESENTS!

Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - The Wild Adventures of Doc Savage-Desert Demons - by: Will Murray

          Back after 20 years! Doc Savage and his mighty crew return in a brand-new series of nightmare exploits that can only be called…. THE WILD ADVENTURES OF DOC SAVAGE! Ferocious blood-red Things begin dropping down from the sky, the state of California is besieged by the Desert Demons—a phenomenon so fierce that it triggers a modern exodus. Only Doc Savage, the scientist-superman who was forged in the fires of scientific knowledge to battle the unknown, is equal to the challenge. From the Hollywood hills to the alligator-infested interior of Florida, the Man of Bronze wages war with cyclonic monsters that seem to possess an intelligence of their own—and a murderous malevolence that smacks of the unearthly!

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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Dark Destiny - by: Jeff Melton

          The Tablets of Destiny—ancient artifacts of virtually incalculable power. Separately, they are able to wreak havoc on weather patterns, manipulate the energy supply, and control over death itself! Together, their power increases geometrically, limited only by the user’s vision! Lost for millennia, the tablets have re-surfaced. Wherever they are found, strange phenomena have followed. Today, they are aggressively sought by a homicidal madman with a dark history of brutality, who seeks the restoration of the bloody Mesopotamian Empire, setting the world back 2500 years! With the power to re-shape the world and wipe out modern civilization, his fanatical goals are within his grasp. In order to stop him, renowned adventurer and philanthropist Jeremiah Courage has assembled a team, each an expert in his or her own field. Together, they must race to seek out and secure the tablets, hidden in ancient and exotic locations around the globe, before their adversary and his followers have a chance to use them and make his dreams of conquest a grim reality. Courage’s team of adventurers must travel to the four corners of the Earth, in a desperate race against time and the men working to re-shape reality. While he seeks to use the tablets for his own sinister purpose, Courage and his team have another challenge. Every moment that the tablets are separated, the world suffers terrifying environmental upheavals, the scope of which are unseen in recorded history! They must find the tablets and stop him before the world is ripped apart by the terrifying power of the tablets, which threaten to destroy civilization itself!

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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - The Halloween Legion - by: Martin Powell

          The sleepy rural community of Woodland is caught up in a nightmare from which they cannot escape. Suddenly, mysteriously, a small group of extraordinary visitors arrives to save them, coming from a place where orange, gold, and crimson leaves follow you in the autumn breeze. A place of eternal October, where imagination is magic, monsters are real, and pumpkins are more than they seem. They know what scares you, and only they can stop it. Evil—beware, the World’s Weirdest Heroes!

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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Truly, Deeply Disturbed - by: Andrew Nienaber

           Ever been cut off by a self-centered driver or angered by someone bringing too many items into the express lane at the grocery store, and thought "this jerk needs to suffer"? You're certainly not alone. But there's someone out there who is taking care of it for all of us without the stomach to punish those who deserve it. He doesn't wear a cape or a badge. You've never heard his name, and you never will. But he's out there, eliminating the bullies, the self-centered and the just plain terrible one by one. And he's just hit a snag in the form of a little girl named Samantha.

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Supernatural Dick in Capitol Hell - by: Misty Johnson

          Centuries ago, Misty Johnson, Supernatural…er,…Dick, was cursed with near immortality when a black magic spell she and a friend were casting backfired…and the supernatural realm has regretted it ever since. A near millennium full of battling paranormal nasties, saving helpless victims, and trying to stay up with the latest cultural niceties, Misty has put her experiences to good use. With the help of her trusty partner, Dru Chance, the two take on the magical underbelly of Washington D.C. as they investigate crimes that no one else can handle.From shady Senators to sneaky shape shifters, from a ninja made of clay to a vampire afraid of his own shadow…Misty Johnson navigates the nation’s capital, all the while seeking to uncover the truth for her clients—and for herself. An unnatural life span. A timeless mission. A woman like no other. Just don’t call her a detective!

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