On the day we honor America’s laborers, we’re taking a break. It’s hard to mount a convention. So the PulpFest organizing committee is happy to have a new volunteer.
Please welcome William Patrick Maynard for offering to write for the PulpFest website. An avid reader of vintage thriller fiction and a student of film and comic art, Bill has been writing since childhood. He’s the authorized author of Sax Rohmer’s Fu Manchu series. Bill also writes mystery and science fiction screenplays and short fiction. He has authored nearly 300 pop culture articles and classic film commentaries.
Bill will help us all to enjoy the great pulps of the past and the genre fiction of today and tomorrow.
To volunteer for PulpFest, please write to convention chairman Jack Cullers at jack@pulpfest.com or marketing and programming director Mike Chomko at mike@pulpfest.com.
(The cowboys of the American West worked hard — mending fences, herding cattle, busting broncos, and more.
In 2019, PulpFest will return with more great programming. Next year will be the 100th anniversary of Street & Smith’s WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE. We’ll look at the great cover artists who worked for the pulp. One was Charles Durant. During his career, he painted over fifty covers for ADVENTURE, BATTLE STORIES, EVERYBODY’S MAGAZINE, SKY RIDERS, THE THRILL BOOK, WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE — including the December 11, 1920 number — and other pulps.
We hope you’ll be at PulpFest 2019 for a celebration of mystery, adventure, science fiction, and more. Join us for “Children of the Pulps and Other Stories” at PulpFest 2019.)
