I bought Fantastic Victoriana, full list price, special order, and would happily pick up at least one other copy for a friend should it ever see reprint, preferably in trade paperback (the prices The Junior Woodchucks' Guide to Victorian Genre Fiction is commanding on Ebay are too rich for my blood, I fear.) I've long since budgeted for Pulp Heroes whenever it comes out.
A few out-of-left-field questions and observations:
1. Is that a realistically rendered (at least not insultingly caricatured) African-American I see on the Abbott's cover?
2. A Southwestern Ohio non sequitur: the cover illustration for "The Tiger" reminds me irresistably of Doug Mann (of Dayton-area personal-injury law firm Dyer, Garofalo, Mann, and Schultz), and his ongoing advertising schtick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmcYfNK2b4 (I wonder if he ever gets kidded about Mickey Spillane's Tiger Mann...)
3. I'm shocked and surprised at your choice of that specific issue of Gun Molls;
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Well, thanks. I know I can rely on some folks to buy what I write. But I think I can't grow my audience any more by making stuff available online. I've plateaued, I think. So there's no real point in doing so any more.
1) Yes. Abbott's was a FUBU pulp, one of the first African-American pulps.
2) Quite possibly.
3) You'd think, with a title like "Gorilla Girl," I'd remember the story, but it left no trace in my mind, sadly.
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A few out-of-left-field questions and observations:
1. Is that a realistically rendered (at least not insultingly caricatured) African-American I see on the Abbott's cover?
2. A Southwestern Ohio non sequitur: the cover illustration for "The Tiger" reminds me irresistably of Doug Mann (of Dayton-area personal-injury law firm Dyer, Garofalo, Mann, and Schultz), and his ongoing advertising schtick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmcYfNK2b4 (I wonder if he ever gets kidded about Mickey Spillane's Tiger Mann...)
3. I'm shocked and surprised at your choice of that specific issue of Gun Molls; ( ... )
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1) Yes. Abbott's was a FUBU pulp, one of the first African-American pulps.
2) Quite possibly.
3) You'd think, with a title like "Gorilla Girl," I'd remember the story, but it left no trace in my mind, sadly.
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