Archive for June, 2010

With sixteen nominations for the 2010 Munsey Award, the PulpFest organizing committee was very pleased with the response to its call for nominations. In early June, ballots describing each of the nominees and their contributions to the pulp world were sent to all the living Lamont and Munsey Award winners.

The votes have all been counted and the recipient of the 2010 Munsey Award is…..   Oops, we almost let it slip out! You’ll have to be in attendance at this year’s PulpFest on Saturday evening, July 31st, to meet our winner. The Munsey will be presented to one of our sixteen nominees following the annual PulpFest business meeting. So be sure to mark your calendars for PulpFest 2010, beginning Thursday, July 29th (early registration) and running through Sunday, August 1st.

As of June 16, the PulpFest dealers’ room is totally sold out. Any dealer registrations received after Tuesday, June 22, 2010 will be placed on a waiting list in case of last minute cancellations.

Visitors to this year’s show can look forward to seeing material for sale on 100 tables spread across our expanded exhibit space at the Ramada Plaza. PulpFest’s exhibitors offer a wide variety of product. In addition to original pulp magazines, attendees can purchase hardcovers and paperbacks, new fiction written in the pulp tradition, and other collectibles related to American popular culture of the pulp era. Rare and particularly desirable books can cost many hundreds, even thousands of dollars, but our dealers offer many inexpensive items as well. Collectors on a tight budget can still find lots of appealing stuff at PulpFest, and newcomers to the hobby will be surprised to see how many vintage magazines they can purchase at affordable prices. Those looking to sample pulp fiction without investing a lot of money in collectible items can choose from among dozens of newly published reprint volumes in trade-paperback format. In short, PulpFest’s dealers’ room offers something for everybody!

With PulpFest less than two months away, the committee is now finalizing the schedule of events and composition of panels. This year’s convention will boast even more programs than last year’s, with many of the pulp community’s most knowledgeable members participating in discussions that will be as informative as they are entertaining.

Guest of Honor William F. Nolan will appear at three separate events. On Friday evening, following the official welcome to PulpFest attendees, Nolan will be interviewed by his friend and agent, Jason Brock. In addition to touching on Max Brand and the Black Mask writers being celebrated at this year’s convention, the author will discuss his relationships with Ray Bradbury, Richard Matheson, Charles Beaumont, and other well-known writers of genre fiction in the pulp tradition. And, of course, he’ll talk about his own work, including his contributions to the horror field (such as his work for the revived Weird Tales) and the novels for which he is perhaps best known, Logan’s Run and its sequels.    (more…)

The PulpFest Organizing Committee is proud to announce that sixteen members of the general pulp community have been nominated for the 2010 Munsey Award. The nominees were selected by pulp fans over the last several months. Their names will now be forwarded to a committee made up of all the living Lamont Award winners and last year’s Munsey winner, Bill Thom, who will select the person to receive the 2010 Munsey.

The sixteen nominees include Anthony Tollin, Chris Kalb, Dan Zimmer, Don Herron, Garyn Roberts, Gene Christie, George Vanderburgh, Howard Wright,  John DeWalt, Laurie Powers, Mike Chomko, Mike Taylor, Ron Fortier, Ron Hanna, Steve Miller, and Bill Contento. You’ll find further details about each nominee on the 2010 Nominees page of our website.

The recipient of the 2010 Munsey Award, a limited edition print designed by artist and pulp enthusiast David Saunders, will be announced on July 31 as part of the Saturday evening programming schedule, open to all PulpFest 2010 registrants.