TWO-GUN PHOENIX PUBLISHING DEBUTS WITH FOUR TITLES-Crime Noir, Alternative History Adventure, Forgotten Books, and A Beloved Sailor

PRESS RELEASE

Two-Gun Phoenix Publishing, a company formed by a group of publishers, editors, writers, and fans, announces its existence with four books available now for purchase via Amazon and soon via other venues.

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MACAVITY by Barry Reese

Macavity. A name whispered around the world - feared by police and criminals alike. When the underworld mobs of New York go to war over a mysterious object, the elusive rogue possesses guaranteed to help the victor claim ultimate power, an unlikely duo unites to bring Macavity to justice: a British inspector and a gorgeous moll. With betrayals, lies, and deaths accumulating, Macavity threads the needle between success and defeat... with a shocking secret that no one can predict!

Known for his mind-blowing and prolific New Pulp work with characters like The Peregrine and Lazarus Gray, award-winning author Barry Reese takes on a genre unlike any he’s tackled before. Equal parts noir, crime, and adventure, MACAVITY has everything a good mob war story…and heist tale…and hard-boiled actioner needs!

Cover by Dana Black

Paperback-$14.99  

Ebook-$3.99

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A COWBOY IN CARPATHIA: A BOB HOWARD ADVENTURE (AUTHOR’S EXPANDED EDITION) by Teel James Glenn

In 1936, Robert Ervin Howard, the creator of Conan the Cimmerian and countless other legendary characters, took his own life after the death of his beloved mother.

But…what if he didn’t?

Teel James Glenn’s A COWBOY IN CARPATHIA: A BOB HOWARD ADVENTURE won the 2021 Pulp Factory Best Novel Award and kicked off a series of alternate history adventures for one of the most beloved Pulp authors of all time. In this new Author’s Expanded Edition, Glenn takes Howard beyond his own history. First, Bob finds himself under the Big Top in New York City taking on corruption and betrayal the only way he knows how; two-fisted. Then, crossing the ocean, he finds depravity of a whole other sort in England, which carries him to far-off Carpathia. To save a woman dear to him, Bob sets out to take on a legendary, immortal evil boot to boot- the undead beast incarnate known as Dracula.

Cover by Dana Black

Paperback-$16.99

Ebook-$4.99

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OFF THE DUSTY BOOKCASE by Aubrey G. Stephens

Stories of wonder and adventure once filled bookshelves instead of phones and e-readers. Books you held in your hand that, in the right place, acted as portals to worlds and lives you could live over and over. All you needed was a little money to buy a passport to wherever or a library card to borrow passage for a while.

But some of those journeys, many of those far-off places and the people who created them have been forgotten to time. While we still watch movies based on some of them or read tales most definitely inspired by them, works from authors that maybe were even well household names have been lost in the past.

But not for Aubrey G. Stephens.

OFF THE DUSTY BOOKCASE is a collection of reviews and reminiscences written by Stephens, a teacher, writer, and fan of reading since his early trips to a Mississippi library. Beginning in that very building, OFF THE DUSTY BOOKCASE from Two-Gun Phoenix Publishing introduces readers of all ages to forgotten works of genre fiction while also touching on cinema, history, and more. This collection of essays is more than just a reminder of authors and their works. It's the love and passion of one man for the written word and all that it means to everyone.

Paperback- $15.99

Ebook- $3.99

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TALES OF THE SAILOR MAN by Jim Beard, Aubrey Stephens, and Brian K. Morris

Ahoy! The world’s most popular sailor springs to new action-inspired life in TALES OF THE SAILOR MAN!

Created by E. C. Segar as a part of his ‘Thimble Theatre’ comic strip, Popeye sailed into newspapers in 1929, and his voyages have continued across every known medium! With arms like tree trunks, a squint that makes pirates quake and quiver, and a unique take on what passes for the English language, Segar’s one-time supporting character quickly planted his flag as the lead for not only the comic strip, but also a whole host of cartoons, comics, and more.

Join Jim Beard, Aubrey Stephens, and Brian K. Morris as they take the two-fisted mariner both back to his roots and into a new style, even for him. Three tales that draw from Popeye’s earliest days in ‘Thimble Theatre’ with their eyes squarely set in the direction of high-octane adventure!

So, enjoy a generous helping of Oyl, not Olive, and rub the Whiffle Hen for luck as you set sail with the roughest, toughest swab ever to walk a deck!

Paperback-$9.99

Ebook- $2.99

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To follow Two-Gun Phoenix Publishing, go to www.facebook.com/TwoGunPhoenixPublishing. Much more to come!

Shudder Stories to Send Shivers Up Your Spine!

Creeping to you from Becky Books!

The so-called “shudder pulps” of the 1930s enticed Depression-era readers into dark alleys of weird menace, ghastly gore, terrifying torture, and too-hot-to-handle horror until being shuttered by a virulent movement of puritanism to clean up newsstands. Today, Shudder Stories harkens back to those “Dirty Thirties” to resurrect the grim ghost of those bygone days of shock and awe.

In the full-length “Corpus Vile,” writer Jim Beard plunges a major, metropolitan city into the Stygian depths of doom and destruction when a devilish villain holds the power of life and death over its citizens, and a despoiled ex-district attorney finds himself the one man standing between a stack of corpses and the quickly fading rays of daylight. When dead men walk, rivers of blood flow, and entire buildings fall, it’s time for an unlikely hero to mete out some harsh justice.

Brian K. Morris also offers up “They Call My Name,” a short shocker of a man who awakens to his name being called in the middle of the night, a siren scream that leads him down into a nightmare of fear and loathing, not to mention a baffling mystery with no solution in sight.

Then, in “The Infernum Affair,” Frank Schildiner tells the terrifying tale of a dastardly evil-doer dead set on destroying twenty-three lives to gain a fiendish foothold on his lust for power, and the one offbeat occult-fueled mystery man who may be able to stop him.

Join these passionate pulp scribes in their haunts of horror, but be prepared to be terrorized, titillated, and perhaps not a little toughened by the ordeals that lay before you—Shudder Stories pulls no punches in its headlong drive over the edge of sanity…and into madness!

Created and edited by Jim Beard
Cover and logo by Jeffrey Hayes
Interior design and formatting by Maggie Ryel

Currently available on Amazon.

Jukebox Thrillers! Look for my newest story, "Sugar Walls"!

Coming soon from New Legend! Jukebox Thrillers: Solid Hits of the 80's is a totally awesome anthology of short stories by top talents inspired by top tunes from the 1980's. You may be familiar with the songs and even the videos, but you've never seen them like this! Check out this wickedly epic playlist: 

Jim Beard “One Thing Leads to Another”

Jayme Lynn Blaschke “The Old Man Down the Road"

Sara T. Bond "Don't You (Forget About Me)"

John C. Bruening "Only the Lonely"

Darin M. Bush "Cult of Personality"

Ryan Cadaver & Nicole Ghouled Cadaver "No Easy Way Out"

Christopher Collins "Electric Avenue"

A.R. Cook "Danger Zone"

Joe Crowe "Walk Like an Egyptian"

Keith R.A. DeCandido "Road to Nowhere"

Kevin Eldridge "Ride Like the Wind"

Michael Falkner "Stand"

Kelley M. Frank "Automatic"

Nicole Givens Kurtz "Wrapped Around Your Finger"

Michael A. Gordon “Centerfold”

Justin Gray “Valley Girl”

Darrell Z. Grizzle “Time After Time”

Joe Heath “Ghost Town”

Robert Jeffrey II "If This World Were Mine"

Bernadette Johnson “Every Breath You Take”

Dan Jolley “Somebody’s Watching Me”

Darin Kennedy “Only Time Will Tell”

Mike Lyons “Money for Nothing”

Violette L. Meier “Nasty Girl”

Adam Messer “Hungry Like the Wolf”

J.R. Mounts “Round and Round”

Bobby Nash “Running Down a Dream”

Jessica Nettles “Major Tom (Coming Home)”

Kelly Oechslin “Jessie’s Girl”

Mary Ogle “I Ran (So Far Away)”

James Palmer “99 Red Balloons”

Ashley Marie Pauls “Holding Out for a Hero”

Alan J. Porter “Two Tribes”

Sarah J. Sover “Careless Whisper”

Sean Taylor “Sugar Walls”

Vincent EM Thorn “The Number of the Beast”

Kelly Young-Silverman “In the Air Tonight”

Ricky Zero “Where the Streets Have No Name”

and more!!!

Jukebox Thrillers is scheduled to be released in November 2025. More details coming soon!

In the meantime, enjoy this music video playlist.

FLINCH! BOOKS RELEASES SGT. JANUS AND THE HOUSE THAT LOVED DEATH!

Who is Death at the End?

Life and Death. Sgt. Janus struggles with these two concepts every single day of his existence to balance the scales when wrongs and injustices are perpetrated in the paranormal realm. But what does he truly know—truly understand—about the nature of either?

A mysterious and macabre stranger-killer is on the loose in Mount Airy, taunting the authorities with letters to a local newspaper’s editor-in-chief, and baffling everyone with a seeming supernatural ability to stalk and murder their victims. What the killer doesn’t count on, though, is the intervention of the Spirit-Breaker himself, Roman Janus, when death strikes far too close for comfort within the sergeant’s personal circle of friends.

The stage is set for Sgt. Janus’ greatest challenge yet—to stop death itself, even though his very possessions may be working against him to prevent it. The battle is fought on more than one plane, and everything he knows of the spirit world may be turned upside down before the dust clears and a victor emerges.

SGT. JANUS AND THE HOUSE THAT LOVED DEATH brings writer Jim Beard back to the adventures of the celebrated ghost hunter who has charmed and entertained fans of the classic occult detective genre in three previous volumes. Beware, though—the house is open and waiting for you to enter, but only the brave may be able to leave to tell its tale.

Cover art by Jeffrey Hayes

Catch up on all the Sgt. Janus stories here: 

• https://www.amazon.com/dp/B089SRDCT5 
• www.FlinchBooks.com

New from Flinch Books! Plug in and turn on! THE LEMON HERBERTS WORLD TOUR is coming to your town! IT’S A PULP POP-A-GO-GO!

Hot on the heels of their chart-topping hit album, Redwing Blackbird’s Summer Solstice Tea Party, The Lemon Herberts launch themselves on their very first world tour – and straight into more danger, more peril, more sheer adventure than they ever bargained for!

In seven pulpy, far-out fables, you’ll meet drummer Ellroy, guitarists Honor and Dilly, bassist Ally, and the gorgeously fab Her Majesty – all of them trouble magnets that even their long-suffering manager, the very proper Brighton Hawks, can’t hope to contain. Just ask the Lemon Herberts’ legion of screaming fans: they’re wild, they’re wonderful, they’re simply the most!

Herberts creator Jim Beard leads a band of groovy authors in a kooky collection that will have you grooving and dancing to the soundtrack of The Lemon Herberts conquering the world one city at a time and making music to change hearts and minds around the globe!

First published in 2015 as THE LEMON HERBERTS, this collection amazed readers with its pop culture punch. Now it makes its triumphant return in this newly edited and expanded edition – available in print and ebook formats, and guaranteed to entertain a whole new generation of Herberts fans!

Jim Beard Read Every Issue of The Brave and the Bold… So You Don’t Have To!

Breaking Bold and Brave: A Fan's Journey Through One of Comics' Greatest Titles 

For immediate release

From 1956 to 1983 The Brave and the Bold stood as one of DC Comics’ core titles, a series that spanned multiple eras and popularized the very concept of the “team-up,” the joining of forces of superheroes, monsters, and more! It also introduced such superstars as the Silver Age Hawkman, Metamorpho, and the Justice League of America! It was a magazine like no other!

Now, writer-editor Jim Beard offers up observations and opinions on the book fans fondly call “B&B” as he journeys through every story, character, and creator of its legendary 200-issue run! Be prepared for fun, facts, and whatever strikes his fancy on a very personal and personable comic book odyssey!

Breaking Bold and Brave includes dossiers on all 200 issues of The Brave and the Bold plus Super DC Giant #S-16 and DC Special Series #8, as well as essays on many aspects of the book’s history, such as eras, editors, try-out team-ups, and, of course, Batman and Bob Haney! It also features a Foreword by comics legend and B&B scribe Paul Kupperberg and a Q&A with B&B writer Alan Brennert! B&B SEEING YOU!

Cover by Sean E. Ali

Interior Formatting and Design by Maggie Ryel

Now Live on Amazon! 

Flinch Books announces Six-Gun Legends!

Chums, my Flinch Books publishing partner John Bruening and I are back in the saddle with our thirteenth pulp-pounding book, SIX-GUN LEGENDS, now LIVE on Amazon in print and Kindle editions! Lasso the link in the Comments below!

SIX-GUN LEGENDS returns to those thrilling days of yesteryear with stories by ten talented writers: Fred Adams, Terry Alexander, Jim Beard, John C. Bruening, Trevor Holliday, Jeffrey J. Mariotte, Terrence McCauley, Will Murray, Christopher Ryan and Duane Spurlock. Each of these storytellers spins a tale of the mystery, mayhem, intrigue, and adventure that inevitably unfold when one of these legendary entities steps out of the collective imagination and into the spotlight with guns blazing.

Cover illustration by Ted Hammond.

Available on Amazon.

Jim Beard: Why Can’t It Just Happen by Osmosis or Something?

Jim Beard pounds out adventure fiction with classic pulp style and flair. A native Toledoan, he was introduced to comic books at an early age by his father, who passed on to him a love for the medium and the pulp characters who preceded it. After decades of reading, collecting and dissecting comics, Jim became a published writer when he sold a story to DC Comics in 2002. Since that time he's written official Spider-Man, X-Files, and Planet of the Apes prose fiction, Star Wars and Ghostbusters comic stories, and contributed articles and essays to several volumes of comic book history. Jim is also the co-publisher at Flinch Books, a small-press pulp house.

Tell us a bit about your latest work.

My friend John Bruening and I just published our tenth book through our Flinch House imprint. It’s called OCCUPIED PULP and features six tales set in post-war Europe and Japan during the Allied occupation. We’re so proud of it it’s not funny.

What happened in your life that prompted you to become a writer?

I wanted to be an artist, even went to school for it, but I found out I didn’t have the drive to make it work. I’d always loved creative writing since I was a small kid, and when I realized there was this community of people reviving and refreshing the classic style of pulp fiction, I jumped in, found I could do it, and have never looked back. So, failure at one thing can sometimes open up doors somewhere else.

What inspires you to write?

Very little! But seriously, just about everything. I get ideas from everywhere, from just about anything I can be doing. I’ve been blessed with never running dry of ideas—I got a million of ‘em!—but the hard part for me is the actual writing. True story. It’s like pulling teeth. I’d almost rather be the idea guy and hand concepts off to others to do all the dirty work.

What are the themes and subjects you tend to revisit in your work?

An odd one is hubris. It showed up in a lot of my earlier writing and stories. I don’t know why. I’m also very fond of the idea of a team of characters and the dynamics between each member. That harkens back to my love of comic books and groups like the Fantastic Four, the Justice League, and the Avengers. I’ve found I’m always coming up with teams. Even when it’s a supposed solo character, I tend to want to surround them with partners or similar.

What would be your dream project?

Very easy: An original prose novel based on the 1966 BATMAN TV series. Sadly, no one will let me do it.

What writers have influenced your style and technique?

Lester Dent, of course, and in some ways Norvell Page. One of my most favorite writers is Ray Bradbury, but I’m kind of the anti-Ray Bradbury in my own writing, just about the complete opposite of him. He was a poet. I’m a hack-and-slasher.

If you have any former project to do over to make it better, which one would it be, and what would you do?

My Spider-Man novel, definitely. The highest-profile thing I’ve ever done, and the one I’m almost too embarrassed to even acknowledge. It was ****ed up even as it was being written, and so edited in committee that I can only look back on it in frustration. For one thing, what was published was an uncorrected proof, so there are a boatload of typos. Beyond that, there are whole sections that were excised and I would like to restore.

Where would you rank writing on the "Is it an art or it is a science continuum?" Why?

Hate to come down in the middle, but it’s both. Or it can be both. There’s a kind of science involved with the rules of the language and all, but there’s also an art to how you can take those building blocks and string them together and create worlds. Kind of cool.

What is the most difficult part of your artistic process?

Writing! I mean it—just sitting down and banging out words and paragraphs and pages each and every day makes me want to run for the hills. Like I said before; I got the ideas, it’s making something out of them in book-form that nearly kills me each and every time. Why can’t it just happen by osmosis or something?

How do your writer friends help you become a better writer? Or do they not?

No, those ****ers are my demons! I hate them! They make me so jealous because they’re so cool and, well, I’m me! Otherwise, they often inspire me…when they’re not kicking my ass with the fifty-million books they put out every year.

What does literary success look like to you?

Golly. Sales? Hate to sound so capitalistic—well, no I don’t, but you dig it, I’m sure. Sales are nice, but when all is said and done, I could get by with the knowledge that someone, somewhere has read my stuff. They don’t even have to necessarily enjoy it, but it’d be nice to know I’m not writing and publishing in a vacuum. Success would mean one or two people recognizing my name. Isn’t that sort of pathetic?

Any other upcoming projects you would like to plug?

Yeah, I have my very first epic fantasy novel coming out this summer, and I’m working on the second of my D.C. Jones books, which are pastiches of the 1970s GI Joe Adventure Team toys. Pretty excited about both of those.

For more information, visit:

• www.facebook.com/thebeardjimbeard
• www.amazon.com/author/jimbeard 
• @writerjimbeard on Twitter

NEW ANTHOLOGY FROM FLINCH BOOKS EXPLORES THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II

 For immediate release

OCCUPIED PULP marches headlong into mystery and adventure in post-war Europe and Japan

Flinch Books announces the release of OCCUPIED PULP, six tales of action, adventure, and mystery set in the aftermath of World War II.

When the war that defined the 20th century came to an end in 1945, the undercurrent of geopolitical tension continued for months afterward as Europe and Japan under Allied occupation became a hotbed of nefarious schemes. Mystery lurked around every corner, and danger waited down every dark alley. OCCUPIED PULP surveys that precarious post-war landscape with stories from six high-profile pulp writers: Will Murray (DOC SAVAGE), William Patrick Maynard (FU MANCHU), Patricia Gilliam (HANNARIA), Bobby Nash (SNOW), Justin Bell (STORM’S FURY) and John C. Bruening (THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN).

Now on sale in print and Kindle formats, this collection of harrowing tales delivers all the two-fisted, slam-bang action and adventure that are hallmarks of the pulp tradition. Along the way, you’ll encounter fascinating heroes and villains who wage a mighty struggle to either protect the fragile peace or set the wheels of conflict and destruction back in motion.

“We’ve assembled an amazing lineup of writers for this project,” says Flinch Books Co-Founder and Editor John C. Bruening. “I knew from the outset that I would have to be on my A-game if I was going to be among the contributors. Individually and collectively, these stories capture the dangerous state of affairs in the months immediately following World War II, when new lines were being drawn, new alliances were being forged and the global balance of power was still up for grabs.”

Flinch Books Co-Founder and Editor Jim Beard concurs. “We’re always looking for a project that not only launches from a solid, traditional pulp base but also stretches to be something unique among other fiction anthologies. With OCCUPIED PULP, I think we’ve done our jobs.”

So suit up, soldiers! Grab your weapons and step into the hot zone, because there are plenty of skirmishes yet to be fought and won.

The war is over, but the action continues!

You can find OCCUPIED PULP on Amazon.com at the following links:

• Print: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0997790377
• E-book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B093RG5Y47

Founded in 2015 by Jim Beard and John Bruening, Flinch Books is an independent print and digital publisher that produces adventure fiction in the classic pulp style. Previous releases include the Sgt. Janus series (SGT. JANUS; SGT. JANUS RETURNS; SGT. JANUS ON THE DARK TRACK), the Midnight Guardian series (THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN; HOUR OF DARKNESS; THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN: ANNIHILATION MACHINE), QUEST FOR THE SPACE GODS: THE CHRONICLES OF CONRAD VON HONIG; RESTLESS: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MUMMY HORROR and more.

For more information about Flinch Books, contact:

• Email: flinchbooks@yahoo.com
• Facebook: http://www.facebook/flinchbooks

NEW ANTHOLOGY FROM FLINCH BOOKS EXPLORES THE AFTERMATH OF WORLD WAR II

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

OCCUPIED PULP marches headlong into mystery and adventure in post-war Europe and Japan

Flinch Books announces the upcoming release of OCCUPIED PULP, six tales of action, adventure, and mystery set in the aftermath of World War II.

When the war that defined the 20th century came to an end in 1945, the undercurrent of geopolitical tension continued for months afterward as Europe and Japan under Allied occupation became a hotbed of nefarious schemes. Mystery lurked around every corner, and danger waited down every dark alley. OCCUPIED PULP surveys that precarious post-war landscape with stories from six high-profile pulp writers: Will Murray (DOC SAVAGE), William Patrick Maynard (FU MANCHU), Patricia Gilliam (HANNARIA), Bobby Nash (SNOW), Justin Bell (STORM’S FURY) and John C. Bruening (THE MIDNIGHT GUARDIAN).

On sale in print and Kindle formats in April 2021, this collection of harrowing tales delivers all the two-fisted, slam-bang action and adventure that are hallmarks of the pulp tradition. Along the way, you’ll encounter fascinating heroes and villains who wage a mighty struggle to either protect the fragile peace or set the wheels of conflict and destruction back in motion.

“We’ve assembled an amazing lineup of writers for this project,” says Flinch Books Co-Founder and Editor John C. Bruening. “I knew from the outset that I would have to be on my A game if I was going to be among the contributors. Individually and collectively, these stories capture the dangerous state of affairs in the months immediately following World War II, when new lines were being drawn, new alliances were being forged and the global balance of power was still up for grabs.”

Flinch Books Co-Founder and Editor Jim Beard concurs. “We’re always looking for a project that not only launches from a solid, traditional pulp base, but also stretches to be something unique among other fiction anthologies. With OCCUPIED PULP, I think we’ve done our jobs.”

So suit up, soldiers! Grab your weapons and step into the hot zone, because there are plenty of skirmishes yet to be fought and won.

The war is over, but the action continues!

Art by Adam Shaw.

Airship 27 Productions and Captain Action Enterprises LLC release new Captain Action

CAPTAIN ACTION # 3
Cry of the Jungle Lord

Airship 27 Productions and Captain Action Enterprises LLC, are thrilled to announce the release of the third volume of Captain Action’s new pulp adventures.

1969 -- Something mysterious is happening in the depths of the Yucatan jungle and Miles Drake, aka Captain Action has been sent to investigate. His superiors believe their main nemesis, the alien criminal known as Dr. Evil, is hunting something called the Sky Rock; a supposed fallen meteor containing strange energies. But as soon as Drake arrives on the site, he’s met with two other unexpected characters that may or may not be involved with Evil’s nefarious plans.

One of these is a beautiful female Mexican agent named Selena Rubio, whereas the other is a strange masked figure woven from local Mayan myths called the Gibbon, the Protector of the Jungle. Whose side are they on and how does Evil’s actual scheme involve the forthcoming Cape Kennedy space rocket launch? The deeper Captain Action delves into the affair, the more dangerous it becomes with death awaiting him at every twist and turn along this deadly verdant path.

Writers Jim Beard and Barry Reese weave a face paced, new pulp thriller filled action galore, exotic locales and larger than life characters to offer up a great new chapter in the exploits of one of the most iconic heroes of the 1960s, Captain Action. Miles Drake is his name but Action is his game!!

“This entire series was writer Jim Beard’s idea,” Airship 27 Production’s Managing Editor Ron Fortier recaps. “It was Jim who initially hooked us up with Ed Catto and Joe Ahearn of Captain Action Enterprise LLC. Generally, most small publishers avoid working with licensors, but in this case our partnership has been a great working relationship for both companies. No doubt because both Ed and Joe, and their new partner, Michael Polis, are still fanboys at heart.”

The original plan was to have Beard write all three books solo but when scheduling conflicts arose, he turned to another popular New Pulp author, Barry Reese, for assistance. A long time fan of Captain Action, Reese was happy to sign on and contributed the bulk of this third original book. Canadian artist Ted Hammond provides the stunning cover and Airship 27 Production’s Award Winning Art Director Rob Davis the interior illustrations as well as book design.

About Captain Action Enterprises
As Retropreneurs, Captain Action Enterprises, LLC specializes in taking old properties and rejuvenating them for a new generation. Captain Action’s appears in comic book series, lithographs, statues, action figures, books, T-shirts, model kits and more. Additional
properties include Lady Action, Captain Action Cat, Dr. Evil, Khem, Destiny Zero and Savage Beauty. For additional information, please contact Ed Catto at ed.catto@bonfireagency.com.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon in both paperback and on Kindle.

NEW PULP INVADES PITTSBURGH

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

With PulpFest moving to the Steel City of Pittsburgh (July 27th to July 30th), the New Pulp Community has joined in the promotion by holding two separate book signings in the Pittsburgh area during the con weekend.

On Friday evening, 28th July, starting at 7 p.m. Barnes & Noble located in the Monroeville Mall, 200 Mall Circle Dr. Monroeville, PA will host New Pulp writers Fred Adams, Jr., Wayne Carey, Jim Beard and Tommy Hancock.

On Sat. morning, 29th July, beginning at 10 a.m. at the Rickert & Beagle Books, 3222 W. Liberty Ave, Pittsburgh, PA, will host writers Barbara Doran, John Simcoe, Fred Adams Jr., and David White.

These seven writers are among the finest in New Pulp Fiction and are only a few of the dozens of talented pulp authors and artists who will be in attendance at the PulpFest Convention. Created to continue and preserve the legacy of this unique literary form, the convention is open to the public and information regarding ticket prices, guests and panels can be found at (http://www.pulpfest.com/)

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS PRESENTS HOLMES & HOUDINI

In 2015, Airship 27 Productions released “The Amazing Harry Houdini,” a collection four brand new adventures featuring the famous showman. The volume contained stories by Roman Leary, Jim Beard, I.A. Watson and James Palmer. Now, Ian Watson delivers a full length novel sequel to that title with his, “Holmes & Houdini.”

They call themselves the Far Edge Club, a mysterious cabal of rich, sadistic hedonists who live only to create pain and fear in others.   Only one man has ever bested their perverted schemes, the world renowned magician and escape artist, Harry Houdini.   Now London will become the stage for their final confrontation.

The Club has recruited an army of killers in their maddened goal to destroy Houdini. But they are unaware he is not without his own allies.   Joining the fray at the American’s side is none other than the great detective of Baker St, Sherlock Holmes, and his loyal companion, Dr. Watson.   Together these exceptional heroes will battle an insidious evil and attempt to solve the mystery of the Ghost Mask of L’Inconnu.

“We’ve been waiting almost an entire year to get this out,” says Airship 27 Productions Managing Editor Ron Fortier.   “15 copies of a limited edition collectors edition sold out on the first day at this year’s PulpFest in Columbus, Ohio. It sported a variant cover by Art Director Rob Davis.   Now we have artist Chad Hardin’s wonderful cover and can at last get this book out to all our anxious fans.”   Davis, as he always does with all Holmes titles at Airship 27, provided the black and white interior illustrations and book design.

Writer I.A. Watson has delivered an incredible adventure mystery that will keep readers up till the wee hours of the night.   “Homes & Houdini” is New Pulp fiction at its finest.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS Presents - HARRY HOUDINI – PULP HERO!

Airship 27 Productions is thrilled to announce the released of its newest pulp anthology starring one of the most famous figures in American theatrical history; magician – escape artist supreme, the one and only Harry Houdini!

Houdini began his stage career as a card manipulator.  As his popularity grew, he quickly became known as one of the most colorful stage magicians and escape artists of all time.  Then the movies came knocking and the man people had only read about in the newspapers was suddenly starring on the silver screen captivating audiences with his daring serial exploits.  Harry Houdini was no longer just a magician, he was a bonafide celebrity known around the world.

“I’ve been fascinated with this character since I first heard of him as a child,” says Airship 27 Productions Managing Editor Ron Fortier. “The more I learned it became clear that Houdini, during his own lifetime, evolved into one of the first true international superstars. Once he became a hero of the cinema, his fame and legend were permanently cemented in the hearts of his admirers everywhere.  Wherever he appeared the states, he would attract crowds numbering in the thousands.”

In 1904 Houdini and his manager, Martin Beck, began a world tour starting in London and the adventures grew even more fantastic.  “Although our stories are fictional,” continues Fortier, “we saw his globe-trotting escapes as the perfect backdrop for our writers to whip up fantastic, action packed tales.” From encounters with Bram Stoker and Arthur Conan Doyle, Houdini then battles an evil cult in the catacombs of Paris before heading to Berlin on the famous Nord Express where murder reared its ugly.  These amazing tales are chronicled here by Jim Beard, James Palmer, Ian Watson and Roman Leary.

The cover is by Carl Yonder with gorgeous black and white illustrations by Pedro Cruz and all put together by our award winning Art Director, Rob Davis.  And so Airship 27 Productions is truly excited to present our readers with a brand new look at a truly extraordinary man who was indeed larger life, he was Harry Houdini, Pulp Hero!

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available now from Amazon.

GENRE FICTION GETS GROOVY WITH NEW BAND OF ADVENTURE! THE LEMON HERBERTS DEBUTS FROM PRO SE PRODUCTIONS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Known as an innovator in Genre and Pulp Fiction, Pro Se Productions lays claim to that title once again with its latest release. From the far out imagination of creator Jim Beard comes a band of musicians and heroes that redefine ‘out of sight’ in a new anthology! Get ready, cats and kittens, for The Lemon Herberts!

“The most wonderful thing,” says Tommy Hancock, Partner in and Editor in Chief of Pro Se Productions, “about Genre Fiction is just how broad a canvas it offers creators to work on. Add in the application of the Pulp style of writing to a trippy concept that might seem more at home on a Saturday morning TV screen than in an anthology and the writers Jim Beard brought together, and you truly have something unique. The Lemon Herberts is equal parts lunacy, fun, and action, which, in Pro Se’s book, makes for the best stories!”

MADNESS! Beat it, Beatles! Move over, Monkees! Roll it up, Rolling Stones! Here comes the greatest, grooviest, gearest rock-and-roll group of all time: The Lemon Herberts!

Hot on the heels of their chart-topping hit album, Redwing Blackbird’s Summer Solstice Tea Party, the Lemon Herberts launch themselves on their very first world tour – and straight into more danger, more peril, more sheer adventure than they ever bargained for! In six kicky, pulpy, far-out tales, you’ll meet drummer Ellroy, guitarists Honor and Dilly, bassist Ally, and the gorgeously fab Her Majesty – trouble-magnets that even their long-suffering manager, the mysterious Brighton Hawks, can’t hope to contain. Just ask the Lemon Herberts’ legion of screaming fans: they’re wild, they’re wonderful, they’re simply the most!

Herberts’ creator Jim Beard leads a band of groovy authors -- Nathan Meyer, M. H. Norris, Rocko Jerome, Sam Gafford, and Joseph Lamere -- for a New Pulp collection that will have you tapping your toes and humming along as The Lemon Herberts conquer the world, shining their music into hearts both dark and light around the globe!

Featuring an awesome cover by Michael Hegedus and print formatting and logo design by Forrest Bryant, The Lemon Herberts is available now at Amazon and Pro Se’s own store at  for $15.00.

The band’s debut anthology is also available as an EBook, designed and formatted by Bryant for only $2.99 for the Kindle and for most digital formats via Smashwords.

For more information on this title, contact Morgan McKay, Pro Se’s Director of Corporate Operations, at directorofcorporateoperations@prose-press.com.

To learn more about Pro Se Productions, go to www.prose-press.com. Like Pro Se on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions.

LESTER DENT’S LYNN LASH RETURNS TO FACE NEW DANGERS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

PRO SE PRODUCTIONS ANNOUNCES LATEST PULP OBSCURA VOLUME -- LESTER DENT’S LYNN LASH RETURNS TO FACE NEW DANGERS!

Known for breathing new life into rare, nearly forgotten classic Pulp Characters, Pro Se Productions announces the latest release from its Pulp Obscura imprint, in conjunction with Altus Press. A character created by one of Pulp’s most renowned authors returns in a collection of all new adventures authorized by the legendary creator's estate. The New Adventures of Lynn Lash is now available in print and digital format.

Lynn Lash was created by Lester Dent, the man responsible for one of pulp fiction's greatest and most enduring adventurers, Doc Savage! Lash made his first appearance in 1932 in Ace's Detective Dragnet Magazine. His few stories contained many elements that Dent used when he began writing the adventures of the Man of Bronze. Lash lives and works in a skyscraper headquarters in the heart of the city. He operates as a special consultant to the police, investigating unusual scientific threats beyond their abilities. Lash has an amazing array of equipment and devices of his own design that he employs in his cases. Occasionally aided by his secretary, Rickey Dean, Lynn Lash uses his formidable intellect and astonishing inventions to defeat the schemes of madmen and win the war on crime!

From Out of the Past Comes New Tales of One Of the Gadgeteers of the Golden Age! Pro Se Productions in conjunction with Altus Press presents a new volume in its Pulp Obscura line! Bringing adventures and heroes lost in yesterday blazing to life in New Pulp tales today! Six tales featuring Mechanical Marvels and Maddening Mystery from Andrew Salmon, Chuck Miller, Jim Beard, Tim Lasiuta, R. P. Steeves, and Teel James Glenn! Pulp Obscura Proudly Presents The New Adventures of Lynn Lash!

“In the 1960s,” says Author Teel James Glenn, a contributor to the anthology, “when the Doc Savage books were reprinted I discovered them and was inspired to become a writer. When Pro Se Productions offered me the chance to write a Lynn Lash tale-sanctioned by the estate of Mr. Dent -- I had the greatest thrill of my writing career. My colleagues and I featured in The New Adventures of Lynn Lash pulled out all the stops to honor the legacy and thrill factor of the original tales.”

Featuring a fantastic cover by Mike Fyles and logo design and print formatting by Sean Ali, The New Adventures of Lynn Lash is available now at Amazon at http://www.amazon.com/New-Adventures-Lynn-Lash/dp/1511437278/ref=sr_1_1_twi_2_pap?ie=UTF8&qid=1427980279&sr=8-1&keywords=lynn+lash+new+adventures and Pro Se’s own store at www.prose-press.com for $15.00. The eBook edition designed and formatted by Russ is available for only $2.99 for the Kindle at http://www.amazon.com/New-Adventures-Lynn-Lash-ebook/dp/B00VFCEE0O/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=8-1&qid=1427980279 and for most digital formats via Smashwords at http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/531739.

For the original tales of Lynn Lash as written by Lester Dent and reprinted by Altus Press, go to http://www.altuspress.com/shop/hell-in-boxes-the-exploits-of-lynn-lash-and-foster-fade/.

For more information on this title, contact Morgan McKay, Pro Se’s Director of Corporate Operations, at directorofcorporateoperations@prose-press.com.

To learn more about Pro Se Productions, go to www.prose-press.com. Like Pro Se on Facebook at www.facebook.com/ProSeProductions.

A HALLOWEEN PULP TREAT

Airship 27 Productions locks all the doors and dims the lights as it prepares a deliciously twisted Halloween reading treat for pulp fans everywhere reviving a truly bizarre character. From the pages of the classic pulps comes the most frightening avenger of them all, the Purple Scar! 

The handsome, debonair Dr. Miles Murdoch was a world famous plastic surgeon.  His life was the stuff of dreams until it all turned into a heart-wrenching nightmare. Murdoch’s brother, a dedicated police officer, is brutally gunned down while on patrol.  Before dumping his body into the river, his murderers pour acid over his face as a final act of contempt.  When the body washes ashore days later, Officer Murdoch’s face is beyond recognition, a scarred, purple visage unlike any horror ever imagined.

It is the sight of this death grimace that transforms Miles Murdoch into an avenging angel. Vowing to bring justice to those responsible, the skilled surgeon molds a pliable rubber mask from that repulsive, mutilated face; a mask he dons to become the Purple Scar, the scourge of crooks and villains everywhere.  He has become the physical embodiment of their worst fears brought to fiendish life.

“The first time I learned of this character, I was bowled over by the horror aspects,” confesses Airship 27 Production’s Managing Editor, Ron Fortier.  “There have been other grim pulp avenger, but none of them can hold a candle to the Purple Scar.  This guy is just outright scary as hell.  Which is just the slant we wanted our writers to take.”

Airship 27 now presents four brand new adventures of the creepiest pulp hero of them all, the Purple Scar!  Jim Beard, Jonathan Fisher, Gary Lovisi and Gene Moyers have all stirred the witches cauldron deep to brew up a quartet of frightening mayhem as only the Purple Scar can deliver.  Add the beautifully grotesque art style of Richard Serrao, Shannon Hall’s amazing cover coloring and Rob Davis’s spooky design motif and you have a new kind of pulp thriller unlike anything ever seen.

Beware the shadows and dark alleys, the black cats and dancing skeletons as Airship 27 whips up a real Trick or Treat pulp chiller.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

Available at Amazon in both hard copy and on Kindle.

Lance Star Takes to the Skies Again in an Exciting New Volume of Stories!

Airship 27 Productions announces the release of its newest pulp anthology.  Rev up those Pratt-Whitney engines, pull back on the stick and prepare for take-off, as LANCE STAR – SKY RANGER gets ready to soar into the clouds in this, his fourth volume of high flying adventures.

Once again its time to join America’s aviation ace, Lance Star and his faithful team; Buck Tellonger, Cy Hawkins, Jim Nolan and Red Davis as they fly into four brand new hair-raising tales.  From discovering a hidden Nazis base on lost South Seas Island inhabited by prehistoric monsters to foiling an assassination attempt on President Roosevelt, the Sky Rangers travel globe tackling danger wherever they go.

The Lance Star – Sky Ranger series follows in the grand tradition of popular pulp favorites and Dusty Ayers, Bill Barnes, G-8 & His Flying Aces and dozens of other winged warriors of the clouds.

“When you’re company name is Airship 27 Productions,” says Managing Editor Ron Fortier, “you’d better believe we have a real love of flying heroes and Lance Star-Sky Ranger is at the top of that list.”

So goose your fuel lines, spin the props of your Skybolts and Skeeter and prepare yourself for classic pulp action.  Writers Bobby Nash, Sean Taylor, Andrew Salmon and Jim Beard have delivered a quartet of fast paced, high soaring stories to keep you buckled up tight.

This volume features a cover by popular graphic artist, Felipe Echavarria with interior illustrations by Warbirds of Mars’ own Scott “Doc” Vaughn.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

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Hey, writers! Flinch! Books wants your stories!

For Immediate Release:

Flinch! Books, a new publisher of pulp-style adventure fiction, is looking for authors for their second publication, a prose anthology with a thrilling circus theme.

For several generations, the circus has brought joy to audiences, but it has also hinted at a darker side. The stories of the men and women who perform under the big top are of peril and pleasure, drama and danger, and the agony of their craft.

BIG TOP TALES will feature six of those stories, a year in the life of a popular traveling circus in 1956 America, each of them focusing on one of six lead characters: The Ringmaster, The Elephant Lady, The Knife Thrower (a male), The Human Skeleton (a male), The Trapeze Artist (a female), and The Boy.

BIG TOP TALES will be published first as an e-book in September of 2014, and then later in a print edition. Stories will be 10,000 words each and due no later than July 31st, 2014. This is a hard dead-line; if you cannot meet it, please do not apply for a slot in the book. Also, if we are not already familiar with your published writing, you may be asked to provide samples. Each author will receive a 10% royalty of net profits from sales of the e-book and print copy.

If you are interested in being part of the book, please send an email to flinchbooks@yahoo.com. Include the three characters from the above list you’d most like to write, in order of prominence, and if chosen to be included in the anthology you will be assigned one of them.

Flinch! Books was founded by writer Jim Beard, author of Sgt. Janus, Spirit-Breaker and Captain Action: Riddle of the Glowing Men, and co-creator of Monster Earth, and is dedicated to following the roads less traveled in fiction.

Please visit Flinch! Books on Facebook at: https://www.facebook.com/flinchbooks

TUNE IN AND DROP OUT INTO ADVENTURE WITH 'THE LEMON HERBERTS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE-
JIM BEARD'S LATEST PRO SE PROJECT OPEN FOR SUBMISSIONS-
TUNE IN AND DROP OUT INTO ADVENTURE WITH 'THE LEMON HERBERTS!"

Pro Se, a leading independent Publisher specializing in cutting edge Genre Fiction announces the latest mindbending concept from the mind of ‘Monster Aces’ Creator Jim Beard! Get your groove on with ‘The Lemon Herberts!’

Beat it, Beatles! Move over, Monkees! Here come the Lemon Herberts, the kookiest, kickiest quintet of fun-lovin’ musicians ever to hit the Summer of Love! This anthology of tales will cover the very first world tour of the Lemon Herberts, a late-1960s musical group with not only a flair for inventive pop songs, but a pulpy taste for adventure. Each story will be set in a different country along the group’s tour, setting the stage for colorful, groovy plunges into peril for the Herberts. Think Help! plus Head and divided by Donovan and you’ll be on your way to imagining all the peace, love and DANGER the Lemon Herberts could get themselves into in the incredible year of 1967!

This happening collection of Music Themed Adventure type Pulp has openings for five stories, each one 10,000 words. If interested in going on tour with ‘The Lemon Herberts’, request the concept bible by emailing Morgan Minor, Director of Corporate Operations at
MorganMinorProSe@yahoo.com.

Deadlines for proposals are June 15th. Notification of acceptance will be sent following that date. This is scheduled for publication in early 2014 by Pro Se Productions.

Channel the Psychedelic Sixties and give ‘The Lemon Herberts’ a spin!

For more information on Pro Se Productions, go to www.prosepulp.com.