With less than one month remaining before the 2015 PulpFest begins, convention chairman Jack Cullers reports that most available exhibit space has already been booked, and that dealers who have not yet registered for the convention should reserve their tables immediately lest they risk being shut out.
Although our huckster room at the Hyatt is quite spacious – almost 16,000 square feet – given the many dealers who have found PulpFest to be a great venue to sell their wares, the space fills up fast. This is especially true with our generous offer for dealers who stay at the Hyatt Regency Columbus during the convention. They receive one free table for every two that they rent. So our remaining space is shrinking fast. Wall tables are already completely gone. As of this writing we can still accommodate more exhibitors, but the time to book is now!
Island tables are priced at $70. Wall tables and placement within the dealers’ room will be sold on a first-come, first-served basis. All dealers will also be required to purchase regular three-day memberships for themselves and for any helpers accompanying them to PulpFest.
Although the focus of PulpFest 2015 will be pulp magazines and related materials, vintage paperbacks, digests, men’s adventure and true crime magazines, first edition hardcovers, science-fiction, detective, western, and other genre books and magazines, series books, dime novels, original art, Big Little Books, B-movies and serials and related collectibles, old-time-radio shows, Golden and Silver Age comic books, and pulp-related games and comic books can also be sold.
Most of the people who attend PulpFest are vintage pop culture enthusiasts. So it’s a great place to sell science-fiction books, mystery and detective fiction, adventure or western fiction, original artwork, and more. And it doesn’t have to be old! Publishers such as Adventures in Bronze, Age of Aces, and Murania Press do well selling their pulp reprints and related materials. So do resellers such as Mike Chomko, Books and Martin Grams. Authors and new pulp publishers such as Dick Enos, and Airship 27 have found PulpFest to be a great event to market today’s pulp fiction.
The main themes of PulpFest 2015 are the 125th anniversary of the birth of H. P. Lovecraft, WEIRD TALES, and Standard Magazines, also known as the “Thrilling Group.” Sales should be hopping in those categories!
Dealers interested in selling at PulpFest 2015 should get in touch with Jack Cullers as soon as possible. You can reach him via email by writing to jack@pulpfest.com or by regular mail at 1272 Cheatham Way, Bellbrook, OH 45305. Please visit our registration page and download a copy of our PulpFest 2015 Dealer Newsletter & Registration Form and, if you like, use our Paypal Order page to reserve your table space today! Please remember to ask for your free table if you will be staying at the Hyatt Regency Columbus and will be renting two or more tables.
If you have not yet booked your room for PulpFest 2015, our host hotel is completely full. However, there are still some rooms available at nearby hotels. Please visit pulpcon.org/2015/06/16872/ and you’ll find a link to a list of hotels to choose from. If you are not from the Columbus area and want to sell at PulpFest 2015, we urge to book your room now and not later. Rooms that are relatively close to PulpFest are disappearing fast during the time frame of our convention.
(Like this year’s PulpFest, this 1939 newsstand in Taylor, Texas is bulging with pulps published by the Thrilling Group. We count fifteen different Standard Magazine titles in the rack. The photograph is by Russell Lee and was reproduced on August 4, 2014 on Shorpy.com, a vintage photo blog featuring thousands of high-definition images from the 1850s to 1950s.
For more vintage photos of newsstands, please visit Bill Lampkin’s ThePulp.Net at http://www.thepulp.net/pulp-info/pulp-history/pulp-photos/ where you’ll find over one-hundred newsstand photographs.)
