How the West Was Weird, Vol. 2
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Stacy Dooks hails from Calgary, Alberta in Canada. Raised on a steady diet of Saturday morning cartoons, comics, VHS rentals, and what his mother called 'those weird books', he grew into actually a quite stable individual whose passions for science fiction, horror, and fantasy in its myriad forms continue to fascinate him. Stacy's observations on pop-culture and comics may be found on The Canadian Defender, his online soapbox (he doesn't want to call it a blog so please don't make him) at: http://thecanadiandefender.blogspot.com.
Having abandoned the surface world nearly a dozen years ago, Grahm Eberhardt floats high above us all in a monkey-powered war-dirigible of his own design. His only remaining means of contact with humanity is in the form of USB flash drives he periodically tosses overboard containing surreal, often violent story snippets and requests for “spiced poultry”. One such story found its way into this book. If you enjoy it, please leave a Wendy’s Spicy Chicken sandwich on your rooftop. Grahm will find it. Oh yes. Grahm will find it.
Derrick Ferguson hails from Brooklyn, NY which as all right thinking people know is the true and proper Center Of The Universe. The son of Leroy and Corine Ferguson, he was introduced by them to movies and books, which soon became the twin passions that ignited his desire to tell stories of his own. Inspired to become a rule-breaking writer, he dedicated himself to learning the rules so that he might break them more fully and artistically. Derrick's manic obsessions are carefully monitored by his wife, Patricia.
Writer Ron Fortier is best known for his work on the Green Hornet comic series for Now Comics and writing Alex Ross’ first comic project, Terminator: Burning Earth. He co-founded Airship 27 Productions with artist Rob Davis. The company produces brand new novels and anthologies featuring classic pulp heroes from the 1930s, published by New York Times Bestselling publisher Cornerstone Book Publishers of New Orleans. You can visit their on-line store - http://www.gopulp.info. Ron’s website is http://www.Airship27.com. He also writes a review column, Pulp Fictions Reviews, at http://pulpfictionreviews.blogspot.com.
Dale W. Glaser watched way too much TV and read way too many comics as a kid, so the random monster stories that regularly pop into his head really come as no big surprise. He currently lives in Manassas, VA with his indulgent wife Nora and their two children, Donovan and Annabelle.
Born, raised, and residing in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, David Golightly tries to wedge in a few thousand words of writing whenever he can. A lifelong obsession with comics has led to bizarre character creations like his upcoming short story collection featuring the enigmatic modern pulp hero, the Skull (coming Christmas 2011). His influences include Mark Waid, Jim Butcher, Michael Crichton, and Paul Dini. He is equally obsessed with cookies, and is constantly annoying his wife to bake them for him.
Tommy Hancock, first and foremost, is a Pulp fan. What form it comes in really doesn't matter. Book, Movie, Radio, Comic... Orange, not really a deal for him. This has been a lifetime condition for Tommy and went to the next level very early in life as he became a writer. Currently, he is a partner in Pro Se Productions and Editor in Chief of Pro Se Press. He is also currently working on projects for Airship 27, Age of Adventure, and Moonstone Books. He is the father of three children and the husband to his most wonderful wife, Lisa.
Joel Jenkins lives in the heron-haunted hills of the Great Northwest with his wife and five children. He moonlights as the lead singer and guitar player for the band Dire Planet – a name appropriated by his bandmates (which includes the former drummer of Green Day) from his series of sword and science fiction novels. His other novels include the dark fantasy Escape from Devil's Head, the modern thriller The Nuclear Suitcase, and the vampire-hunting horror tale Devil Take the Hindmost. These can be found at http://www.pulpwork.com, http://www.amazon.com, and in digital format at http://www.fictionwise.com.
Matthew P. Mayo is a Western Writers of America Spur Award Finalist and a Western Fictioneers Peacemaker Award Finalist. His short stories appear in numerous anthologies by DAW Books, Moonstone Books, and many others. His novels include the Westerns Winters’ War, Wrong Town, and Hot Lead, Cold Heart, and he contributes to several series of popular adventure novels. His non-fiction books include Cowboys, Mountain Men & Grizzly Bears and the forthcoming Haunted Old West. Matthew lives on the coast of Maine, where he protects his family from kill-crazy sea creatures. Visit him at http://www.matthewmayo.com. And bring a speargun….
Mike McGee is the writer/co-creator of EL GORGO!: The World's Most Awesome Comics Magazine (http://www.elgorgo.com). Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, he now lives in Virginia.
Ian Mileham was born in Cambridge, England and currently lives in Northampton where he's working hard to become a published author. He is 37 years old, married to Emma, and father of one six-year-old daughter, the implausibly charming Francesca.
Desmond Reddick writes, podcasts, and teaches from the west coast of British Columbia, where he lives with his lovely wife and two ferocious children. He enjoys writing stories about the soul-crushing despair of cosmic dread and barren landscapes that the likes of H.P. Lovecraft and Sergio Leone are known for. Clearly, he’s a lot of fun at dinner parties. You can find him at http://www.desmondreddick.com.
Barry Reese has been a professional author since 2003, when he started working with a fly-by-night publisher called Marvel Comics. Since then, he’s worked for companies as diverse as West End Games, Wild Cat Books, Airship 27, and Moonstone Books. He is the creator of The Rook, one of the most popular characters in the New Pulp movement and Lazarus Gray, one of Pro Se Productions’ flagship heroes. In 2011, he received the Best Pulp Author Award in the inaugural Pulp Ark Awards. He lives in middle Georgia with his wife, son, and three cats.
Josh Reynolds is a freelance writer of moderate skill and exceptional confidence. He has written a bit and some of it was even published. For money. By real people. His work has appeared in anthologies such as Cthulhu Unbound 2 from Permuted Press and Specters in Coal Dust from Woodland Press, as well as in magazines such as Innsmouth Free Press and Bards and Sages Quarterly. Feel free to stop by his blog, http://joshuamreynolds.blogspot.com, and cast aspersions on his character or give him money.
Ian Taylor always preferred playing the Indian to his friends’ cowboys as a kid, which made him very popular with the other kids and very suspicious to the adults. He was born in Roanoke, but currently hangs his hat in rural Montana, within spitting distance of Little Bighorn. He is married to a beautiful woman. This is all that is interesting about Ian Taylor.
Kevin Thornton is a full-time freelance writer, in other words poor. He writes columns, short stories, suspense fiction and bad poetry, some of which has even been published. He lives in Fort McMurray, Alberta, which used to be part of the Wild West: just further North, colder, and Canadian, so not so much of the wild.
Tony Wilson was born in the vast wasteland of the Midwest. He knows what year is on the giant penny in the Batcave and used to be able to explain THAC0. Hobbies include writing, reading comics, watching everything on Netflix, chainmail, and explaining the jokes on The Big Bang Theory to his wife. He currently lives in Indianapolis with his wife, Abby, one fat black cat, and a disgustingly handsome French bulldog. Retirement plans include conquering a small island in the Caribbean, declaring himself Emperor, and spending his final years riding around on a giant tortoise.
ALSO AVAILABLE FROM PULPWORK PRESS
BOOKS BY JOEL JENKINS
Dire Planet
Exiles of the Dire Planet
Into the Dire Planet
The Nuclear Suitcase
Devil Take the Hindmost
BOOKS BY DERRICK FERGUSON
Diamondback: It Seemed Like a Good Idea at the Time
Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell
Derrick Ferguson’s Movie Review Notebook
The Return of Derrick Ferguson’s Movie Review Notebook
BOOKS BY JOSH REYNOLDS
Born Under a Bad Sign
Bury Me Deep
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