They were called scribes, word slingers, hacks and penny-a-worders. But perhaps the most favored term, especially among the men and women who labored for the bloody pulps, was fictioneer—a fiction writer, especially a prolific creator of commercial or pulp fiction.

Join PulpFest as we celebrate today’s fictioneers—the authors writing the new pulp fiction. Indiana’s David Walker, a longtime friend to pulp historian Nick Carr, will be on hand to read from The Dawn of Midnight, a story originally penned for Airship 27’s Lance Star, Sky Ranger, Volume Two, published by Cornerstone Books and featuring the popular adventure hero, Captain Midnight. He’ll also be available for questions, critiques and good, old-fashioned schmoozing.

David’s New Fictioneers reading will take place on Friday, 7/30 at 3 PM. Please visit our programming page for further details on this and PulpFest’s other exciting programming events.

2010 is already shaping up to be a great year for pulp fiction. We’ll have another full year of not only Doc Savage and The Shadow from Sanctum Books, but also quarterly issues of The Avenger and The Whisperer. From Girasol Collectables, there will be twelve new Spider pulp replicas as well as eight adventures of The Master of Men in the popular doubles format. Girasol will also be publishing two facsimile editions collecting all of H. P. Lovecraft’s output for Weird Tales magazine. John Gunnison’s Adventure House will have six more issues of High Adventure–fast approaching its 20th anniversary–four issues of G-8 and His Battle Aces, about three dozen pulp replicas, and more. And of course, there will be plenty of other books to choose from with the offerings from Age of Aces Books, the award-winning Altus Press, Black Dog Books, Pulpville Press, and other small publishers.     (more…)