PULP ARK 2012 - APRIL 20-22, 2012!!!!

CHECK OUT THIS SUPER COOL FYLER!!! THEN GET A ROOM AND PLAN TO COME TO PULP ARK APRIL 20-22, 2012!!!!!!

PULP ARK 2012 - APRIL 20-22, 2012!!!!

CHECK OUT THIS SUPER COOL FYLER!!! THEN GET A ROOM AND PLAN TO COME TO PULP ARK APRIL 20-22, 2012!!!!!!

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

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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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 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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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Viktoriana - by: Wayne Reinagel

          The Ultimate Gothic Horror Steampunk novel by Wayne Reinagel, writer/illustrator of the critically acclaimed Pulp Heroes novels and creator of the Infinite Horizons universe. Modern Marvels - Viktoriana. (Be warned - These vampires don't sparkle!!) A secret fellowship of nine incredibly unique individuals. Trapped in a deadly battle between an ancient evil and the vampire nations. Mankind's last hope. Featuring an all-star gallery of the world's greatest Viktorian era heroes, including: Henry Rider Haggard (author of Allan Quatermain & King Solomon's Mines) as the Warrior, Arthur Conan Doyle (author of Sherlock Holmes & Professor Challenger) as the Doctor, Jules Verne (the Father of Science Fiction & author of the Voyages Extraordinaires series) as the Merovingian, Herbert George Wells (author of The Time Machine & War of the Worlds) as the Scientist, Mary Shelley (author of Frankenstein: or, The Modern Prometheus) as the Oracle, Harry Houdini (the Handcuff King) as the Mage, Bram Stoker (author of Dracula & The Lair of the White Worm) as the Juggernaut, Nikola Tesla (the Master of Electricity) as the Inventor, Edgar Allen Poe (author of The Raven & The Pit and the Pendulum) as the Raven, and Mark Twain (author of Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn) as Himself. Also starring: Countess Elizabeth Báthory aka The Blood Countess, Varney the Vampire, progenitor of the undead species, & Aleister Crowley, The Great Beast. And Special Guest Star: Count Vlad Dracula, the Prince of Darkness & Lord of the Vampires. Paranormal investigators and adventurers. Archaeologists of history. Vampire slayers!!

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Hammered - by: Kevin Hearne

          Thor, the Norse god of thunder, is worse than a blowhard and a bully—he’s ruined countless lives and killed scores of innocents. After centuries, Viking vampire Leif Helgarson is ready to get his vengeance, and he’s asked his friend Atticus O’Sullivan, the last of the Druids, to help take down this Norse nightmare. One survival strategy has worked for Atticus for more than two thousand years: stay away from the guy with the lightning bolts. But things are heating up in Atticus’s home base of Tempe, Arizona. There’s a vampire turf war brewing, and Russian demon hunters who call themselves the Hammers of God are running rampant. Despite multiple warnings and portents of dire consequences, Atticus and Leif journey to the Norse plain of Asgard, where they team up with a werewolf, a sorcerer, and an army of frost giants for an epic showdown against vicious Valkyries, angry gods, and the hammer-wielding Thunder Thug himself.

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Damballa - by: Charles R. Saunders

          The first ever African American 1930s avenger sets out to stop a Nazi plot to subvert a championship fight. From deepest Africa to the streets of 1930s Harlem, the action is none stop. Written by famed novelist Charles Saunders, with interior illos by Clayton Hinkle and a cover by Charles Fetherolf, this is a history making pulp adventure fans do not want to miss.

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Pulp Ark 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Sentinels: Stellarax - by: Van Allen Plexico

          The situation is dire. Four vast and powerful cosmic entities stand poised to destroy the Earth, while the spaceborne nano-virus called the Blight turns everyone--human and alien--into mindless zombies.

          With the mighty Ultraa near death and powerful Vanadium a captive of the enemy, Lyn Li and Esro Brachis have no other choice. They must lead a ragtag group of heroes and villains on a desperate mission. If they’re going out, they’re going out with a bang. It’s one last hurrah-- before the end of the world!

          Filled with action and adventure, SENTINELS: STELLARAX sees our heroes through their greatest challenges ever--and no one is the same afterward.

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - Wake of he Red Mistress - by: Teel James Glenn

A fantasy tale of thwarted love and piratical lust, blood and treasure!

Sister Shinara of the Yulinites is on a ship that is attacked by Aurzia- the Red Mistress. When the pirate’s men are going to kill Shinara and the five novices in her care the sister makes a deal with the pirate queen to lead her to a ‘great treasure’ in a distance monastery.

Meanwhile near that monastery young monk Zak has been slipping out of the monastery to have an affair with a noblewoman using a magic talisman but he haunted by the memory of Shinara.

The Red Mistress leads her brigands on a cross-country trek to loot the monastery with Shinara in tow and a strange bond develops between them.

When they reach the monastery in a storm of fire and blood a reckoning is due. The three; the monk, the pirate and the nun are on a collision course where love, hate and fear are a heady and overwhelming mix!

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Pulp ArK 2012 - Best Novel Nominees - The Damned Thing - by: Barry Reese

THE DAMNED THING

by Barry Reese

          A case from hell... Atlanta, 1939. Tough, beautiful private detective Violet Cambridge has been known to shoot first and ask questions later. But when a distraught client searching for her missing sister appeals to her for help, danger is the furthest thing from Violet's mind. Then her partner is murdered, hideously mutilated and Violet is thrust into a spiraling and - seemingly supernatural chain of violence and death. The search for a legendary object said to possess unholy power is about to reach its mind-numbing climax. Beset by gangsters, secret societies, evil cultists, and the most infamous warlock of his time, Violet Cambridge and her small band of allies have quite literally stumbled into a case from hell. Wild Cat Books is proud to present a riveting tale of vengeance and terror that leads to the very mouth of hell from popular writer Barry Reese (creator of "The Rook" and author of "Rabbit Heart" and the "Savage Tales of Ki-Gor"). Cover Art by Jason Levesque.

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