Published in Blazing! Adventures
Blazing! Adventures Magazine has just published my story “The Empire Crown” in their September 2008 issue.
An unabashed tribute to the 1930s-era pulp adventure stories, Blazing! Adventures Magazine covers the full spectrum of noir detective thrillers, Westerns, space opera, action, “spicy” pulp, femme fatales and strong-jawed heroism. It is a gleeful throwback to a unique period — complete with its dependable style of presentation and writing.
I am a pulp-era aficionado. There’s little to compare it to today — perhaps The Rocketeer, Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, and of course the spectacular Raiders of the Lost Ark which was better than any of its inspirations. Of course, no one is claiming it’s Oscar Wilde; pulp magazines are a footnote in escapist literature.
If I lived in the Pulp Era...
