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…)

 PulpFest is proud to announce that award-winning author, editor, screenwriter, and biographer William F. Nolan will be the Guest of Honor at this year’s convention.

Among his other accomplishments, Mr. Nolan is a leading authority on pulp fictioneers Max Brand and Dashiell Hammett as well as the other Black Mask contributors who flourished under the regime of editor Joseph T. Shaw. His many books on these writers include Hammett: A Life at the Edge (1983), The Black Mask Boys (1985), and Max Brand: Western Giant (1986). This year marks the 90th anniversary of both Black Mask’s first issue and Max Brand’s first appearance in Western Story Magazine, and the PulpFest committee felt that Mr. Nolan was the ideal person to help recognize these milestones in pulp history. He will headline PulpFest panels on Western and hard-boiled detective fiction.     (more…)