Saturday, January 26, 2013

PRO SE ANNOUNCES BLACK PULP FEATURING BEST SELLING AUTHORS!


FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Publisher Announces BLACK PULP Collection
Featuring Best Selling Authors

Batesville, AR – 1/26/2013 – Pro Se Productions, a publisher of Genre Fiction, works to not only harken back to the classic fiction of Pulp magazines and adventure tales, but also to push the boundaries of modern Genre fiction in many directions.   To that end, Pro Se Productions reveals a new anthology to be released in early 2013, a collection featuring the work of various authors, including bestsellers Walter Mosley and Joe R. Lansdale. 

Cover for BLACK PULP
by Adam Shaw
Black Pulp is a collection of stories featuring African characters in leading roles in stories running the genre gamut.   Pulp Fiction of the early 20th Century rarely, if ever, focused on characters of color and the handful of black characters in these stories were typically portrayed as racial stereotypes.  Black Pulp, a concept developed by noted crime novelist Gary Phillips, brings some of today’s best authors together with up and coming writers to craft adventure tales, mysteries, and more, all with black characters at the forefront.

 Also co-editor of Black Pulp, Phillips observed, “While revisionism is not history, as Django Unchained signifies, nonetheless historical matters find their way into popular fiction.  This is certainly the case with new pulp as it handles such issues as race with a modern take, even though stories can be set in a retro context.  Black Pulp then offers exciting tales of derring-do and clear-eyed heroes and heroines of darker hues appealing to all.”

Black Pulp features a new original essay on the nature of Pulp, both classic and modern, by award winning author Walter Mosley.  Known for his bestselling Easy Rawlins novel series as well as books featuring Private Eye Leonid McGill, Mosley is widely published in fiction, both literary and genre, and non-fiction. Mosley has received several honors, including a Grammy, PEN America’s Lifetime Achievement Award, and an O. Henry award.

Also featured in the anthology is a classic story by Joe R. Lansdale. Lansdale is not unfamiliar to Pulp, having written such notable characters as Tarzan as well many of his own original creations, including Hap & Leonard.  Winner of the Edgar Award, multiple Bram Stoker Awards, The Horror Writers Association Lifetime Achievement Award and many others, Lansdale’s story provides his own take on Black Pulp.

Black Pulp Co-Editor, Contributor,
And Idea Bringer
Gary Phillips
Other contributing writers include Chester Himes Award winner Phillips, two time Shamus Award winner Gar Anthony Heywood, noted author Kimberly Richardson who currently has two works enlisted for Pulitzer Prize nomination, Dixon Medal winner Christopher Chambers, critically acclaimed novelist Mel Odom, hip-hop chronicler Michael Gonzales, Pulp Factory and Pulp Ark Award winner Ron Fortier, Pulp Factory Award winner Charles Saunders, Pulp Ark Award winners Derrick Ferguson and Tommy Hancock(also Publisher co-editor of Black Pulp), and noted writers Michael Gonzales and Alan D. Lewis.

Black Pulp is slated for print and digital release in early 2013 and features an original cover by Adam Shaw.  For more information concerning Black Pulp and Pro Se Productions, contact proseproductions@earthlink.net.

Thursday, January 17, 2013

THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON TAKE FLIGHT FROM PULP OBSCURA!



THE MASKED MANHUNTER OF THE SKIES RETURNS! 

 
Pro Se Productions, a leader in Genre Fiction and New Pulp adventures, proudly announces the long awaited newest volume of its Pulp Obscura line!  THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON!

Pulp Obscura, an imprint of Pro Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press, brings yet another rare and classic Pulp Character back to life from Pulp's Golden Era! 
 
Kerry Keen is a young millionaire playboy by day to hide his nocturnal adventures as a costumed airborne crime fighter! From a secret underground hangar on his Long Island estate in the Graylands, The Griffon takes to the skies in the Black Bullet, his supercharged and heavily armed seaplane on missions of justice and vengeance! 
 
The Griffon was created by Arch Whitehouse and appeared in Flying Aces MAgazine, his adventures beginning in the June 1935 issue.  
These new tales take Kerry and his companions, Barney O'Dare and Barbara "Pebbles" Colony back into the skies for six terrific flights of danger and intrigue!

This stunning collection features an incredible cover by Mike Fyles as well as fantastic format and design by Sean Ali! Six Tales of Action, Excitement, Mystery and Amazing Arial Adventure take flight in this collection from writers Van Allen Plexico, Chuck Miller, Phil Bledsoe, S. E. Dogaru, Don Thomas and R. P. Steeves! 

Beware THE VENGEANCE OF THE VIPER!  Fight alongside The Griffon against THE DEVIL AND THE BLOODY BARONESS!  Fly into the HELL ABOVE US!  Encounter TERROR OVER THE PACIFIC!  Solve THE CASE OF THE DANGEROUS DIRIGIBLE! Uncover THE CLOCKWORK PLAN OF HERR DROSSELMEYER!  All in THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON!
 
Climb into the cockpit of the Black Bullet with Kerry Keen and fly off into THE NEW ADVENTURES OF THE GRIFFON from PULP OBSCURA!

Get your print copy today from Amazon HERE or from Pro Se's own Createspace store HERE! for $15.00!  Coming soon for your Kindle, Nook, and Ebook Readers!

For more from Pro Se-www.prosepulp.com!  

For The Complete Adventures of the Griffon Volume 1 Reprints from Altus, go HERE!  And Volume 2 HERE!

Wednesday, January 9, 2013

PRO SE 16 PUTS THE HANSEN INTO PULP!


Pro Se Press Continues To Put The Monthly Back In Pulp with a double shot from Fantasy Maven Nancy A. Hansen in the award winning magazine, Pro Se Presents 16! First, Kate Keener is hired to help a troubled couple find their daughter and discovers that the answers she seeks are leading to more disturbing questions in THE KEENER EYE: OUR CROSSES TO BEAR! Also, Lori lives a secret life. She hunts and kills immortals, including vampires. She's rescued one night by a mysterious stranger who appears to share her mission. But Lori has other secrets she's been keeping in the second installment of THE SONG OF HEROES entitled DARK EYES OF NIGHT! Two New Pulp tales by one of New Pulp's stars! Get twice the Nancy Hansen in Pro Se Presents 16! Winner of the Pulp Ark Best Magazine 2011 Award!

Get Your issue of Pro Se Presents 16 with two tales by Nancy A. Hansen and wonderfully executed art and design by Sean E. Ali!  Available now in print for $6.00 at http://tinyurl.com/af5bz4k! Also available at Pro Se's Createspace Store at http://tinyurl.com/b8bl7yo!  Also available in digital format for only $1.99 for your Kindle at http://tinyurl.com/aqskp6w.  Also available at www.smashwords.com in any format and for your Nook at Barnes & Noble! 

HANSEN'S WAY DEBUTS 'PROPHECY'S GAMBIT'-FOLLOW UP TO BEST SELLING 'FORTUNE'S PAWN!'



Pro Se Productions, a leading Publisher of Genre Fiction and New Pulp, announces the release of the latest work from one of Pro Se's most prolific and popular authors, the imagination behind the Pro Se Imprint, Hansen's Way-Nancy A. Hansen!

From Fantasy Author Nancy A. Hansen's very own imprint- Hansen's Way- Comes PROPHECY'S GAMBIT, the follow up novel to Hansen's stunning best selling novel debut FORTUNE'S PAWN!

 Left to pick up the pieces of a life in upheaval after her harrowing adventures in FORTUNE’S PAWN, young Callie makes a disconcerting discovery: she is carrying the child of a clandestine and forbidden union. While the mundane existence of a barmaid in a frontier town holds its own challenges, the world around her is realigning in a most sinister and dangerous way. Calculating eyes, benevolent and malicious, are now turned in her direction; and Callie finds herself in the midst of ever-increasing intrigue to control her destiny. Will this headstrong and courageous young woman—who has within her the spark of life that could bring together a diverse legion of defenders—survive long enough to carry this pregnancy to term? Or will Callie forfeit her place in legend and history to protect the shameful secret of her unborn child’s heritage and unknowingly sacrifice everyone else’s hopes and dreams in the process? Find out in PROPHECY'S GAMBIT by Nancy Hansen-part of her Hansen's Way imprint from Pro Se Productions!  Featuring Cover Art by Terry Pavlet, Format and Design by Sean E. Ali, and Ebook Design and Format by Russ Anderson!

Available at Amazon in print-  http://tinyurl.com/9w7upok  Also available at at Pro Se's Createspace store- 
http://tinyurl.com/arghf3r for $15.00And for $2.99 on your Kindle at http://tinyurl.com/agol29y.   The Ebook is also available at www.smashwords.com and for your Nook at http://www.barnesandnoble.com.


A writer of fantasy and adventure fiction for over 20 years, Nancy Hansen is the author of the novel FORTUNE’S PAWN, and anthologies TALES OF THE VAGABOND BARDS and THE HUNTRESS OF GREENWOOD— all available from Pro Se Press under her imprint Hansen’s Way. Her short stories have been featured in many issues of Pro Se Presents. She is also Assistant Editor and head cheerleader for the company. She has contributed stories to both Airship 27 and Mechanoid Press anthologies as well. Nancy currently resides in beautiful rural northeastern Connecticut with an eclectic cast of family members, and one very spoiled dog.

Pro Se Productions-www.prosepulp.com

For Review Copies and Interviews with the Author, please email proseproductions@earthlink.net