Pulp 2.0 Press is excited to announce that we have a new title in production: RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES!

This book is our tribute to western and old time radio enthusiasts who yearn for those thrilling days of yesteryear as envisioned by radio, movie and comics creators back in the 30′s and 40′s. It’s also our chance to pay tribute to Jim Harmon whose work made fandom a much better place.

With a western action novella, articles, galleries and other assorted cool stuff resurrected from the Glut Archives, RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES is a book that is sure to have back in the saddle. The artwork is by our own Nik Macaluso with cover design by the Mad Pulp Bastard himself.

Check out the RADIO WESTERN ADVENTURES page for more details!

Here are a few more photos from our recent Brother Blood book signing at Dark Delicacies in Burbank, CA.

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This Saturday March 27th, Don Glut and I will be featured guests on Cult Radio A Go-Go discussing all things Pulp  2.0 such as BROTHER BLOOD and our new series.
Tune in at 6pm PST and hear all of the details about our new company and the books we’re publishing for fans like you.

See you then!

Well we did it! We had our first ever book signing for our first Pulp 2.0 Press book, BROTHER BLOOD. Before I get started recapping the event i just want to say thanks to Del and Sue and the rest of the fine folks over at Dark Delicacies in Burbank. They were extremely supportive and patient with a newb like myself and set up the event so everyone was relaxed and smiling.

With the event scheduled to start at 2 pm Saturday, I decided I wanted to get there around 1:30 and programmed my morning accordingly. Through the week I laid out posters using the book’s cover art as well as creating some nifty little “baseball cards” we could hand out to everyone there – even if they didn’t buy a copy of BB. My goals were to sell all of the books Dark Delicacies ordered and help spread the word to horror fans about what we were doing. That meant getting people to come to the website, meet Don and myself and just chat. I expected a low-key sort of affair.

I arrived at 1:50 pm, running late and with posters and easels and assorted promotional paraphenalia trailing behind me. Traffic into Burbank was slow molasses and I burst into the shop amidst grins from Don, Del, horror author Jack Ketchum who was in town for the paperback show on Sunday, and a few other familiar faces.

My good buddy, filmmaker Earl Newton volunteered to come over and shoot the event with his video camera and we’ll have that footage for you later next week. Stay tuned! Anyway I am sure he caught me setting up the easels in a hurry and wiping the mad pulp sweat from my brow as customers lined up with their copies to be signed.

I then unrolled the posters from the boxes and grabbed the 30 x 40 BROTHER BLOOD poster. Earl held the clamp as I positioned the sheet and then walked away from the front revealing the Nik Macaluso cover art… you could have heard a pin drop as everyone in the far line peered over the book shelves to catch a glimpse. Someone at the table said, “Ooh, will you look at that.”

Then I positioned the other easel behind Don and unrolled the FRANKENSTEIN poster. Suddenly all eyes in the room were focused on our little corner of Dark Delicacies. Don was grinning from ear to ear, and Earl was lining up shots with Don in the foreground and the posters in the back.

I grabbed some of the BB baseball cards and started walking down the line and saying hello to everyone. Even if they weren’t there to buy one of our books I figured it couldn’t hurt to get over my fear of crowds and say “hello” and “thanks for stopping by.” Don was the old pro and started signing right away, occasionally waving to one of his many fans in line who came out to support him.

As people got their books signed they hung out for awhile and asked questions, and a party atmosphere developed. Everyone picked up on the “blaxploitation movie” vibe of the book right away and were kind of amazed we were doing this (I still am!). For all its size, Los Angeles is a ‘small town’ and it seems everyone knew Don. I was privileged to meet former wrestler Rock Riddle (aka ‘Mr. Wonderful’) TRANCERS 3 and LURKING FEAR screenwriter-director C. Courtney Joyner, Horror writer David J. Schow ( TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE: THE BEGINNING, THE CROW) and even reconnect with buddies Jeff Miller (JOLLY ROGER, HEAD CHEERLEADER – DEAD CHEERLEADER)and blogger Shawna Benson.

Don answered a lot of questions about the background of the book and our upcoming NEW ADVENTURES OF FRANKENSTEIN series; Earl shot footage and I tried my best to not look superfluous. I exchanged business cards with several folks, shook a lot of hands, made jokes and looked around at the menagerie of horror merchandise that fills the Dark Delicacies space. Amazing.

About two hours later we wrapped and we realized we sold out of books.

Wow, I could get used to this.

Pulp 2.0 Press is pleased to announce that they are partnering with Los Angeles’ premier horror bookstore DARK DELICACIES and hosting a book signing for BROTHER BLOOD with author Donald F. Glut this Saturday March 20th, 2010.

The event will feature author Glut signing available copies of Pulp 2.0 Press’s first book  BROTHER BLOOD (available for purchase at the store), posing for pictures, signing autographs and meeting with fans.

Pulp 2.0 Press Mad Pulp Bastard Bill Cunningham also promises an announcement regarding the company’s next release as well as promotional items available for fans. “We want to meet all of the horror and pulp fans out here in the Los Angeles area, and let them know who we are – fans just like them.”

The book signing starts at 2pm Saturday afternoon at Dark Delicacies  4213 W. Burbank Blvd.  Burbank, CA 91505  (near Burbank and Hollywood Way).

Los Angeles, CA – Bill Cunningham, the Mad Pulp Bastard (yes, that’s his job title) of new publishing label Pulp 2.0 Press today announced its premiere pulp novel release, Brother Blood from author Donald F. Glut (The Empire Strikes Back novelization, TV’s Transformers, The X-Men and comics’ The Occult Files of Doctor Spektor). Brother Blood is a horror “blaxploitation” novel set in 1969 Los Angeles in and around the world famous landmarks of the Sunset Strip. Sexy Preston Duval is a sinister vampire stalking the streets of Los Angeles, building a vampire army to take over the city.

“Brother Blood is an old school pulp novel that captures the tone of the sort of material we’ll be publishing here at Pulp 2.0 Press,” said Cunningham. “Besides being a piece of pure entertainment, Blood captures the feeling of the time – having been originally written in 1969, three years before Blacula – and is premiering in english and novel form. It was published previously in the 70′s in an edited, magazine form in German. ”

Brother Blood will be published and distributed worldwide through Createspace’s (www.creatspace.com) print-on- demand service and Amazon.com with low-cost digital editions available later for Kindle and other e-readers. Each print edition will feature “Extras” containing behind-the-scenes information, articles, photo essays and other exclusive entertainment.

In addition to collectible print editions for all of their releases, Pulp 2.0 Press has launched a promotion program for each of their titles. Starting with Brother Blood each Pulp 2.0 title will also feature signed extremely limited edition cover proofs that will be available free to only five lucky readers who are the first ones to send in pictures with themselves holding the book. Winners will be posted on the company’s Facebook page: (www.facebook.com/pulp2ohpress).

(Author Don Glut seen here signing the first of five cover proofs for fans)

In addition to the signed cover proof promotions, each title will be supported with various types of merchandise geared toward fans – posters, t-shirts and branded novelty items. Quality pulp entertainment items that fans can easily acquire.

“The whole company came about because so many cool pulp and exploitation novels that I wanted to read had fallen out of print and were really hard to track down. I figured that if the only way I was going to be able to read these books in affordable editions was to publish them – then I would do that. I tracked Don (Glut) down and licensed several of his books – more of which we’ll announce soon – and got underway.”

Cunningham added, ” Since that initial startup we’ve added several artists and writers to the mix as well as a web marketing manager. We’ve all signed on to the idea of creating the kind of books we as fans want to see and figuring the best way to make pulp fiction fans happy. As a youngster I remember the classic Famous Monsters magazine and how editor Forrest J. Ackerman used to get monster fans involved. Those fans eventually grew up to become the very professionals they were enamored with in the first place. You’ll recognize some of the names: John Carpenter, Joe Dante and yes, Donald F. Glut. Thanks to the internet and meeting fans at conventions we can do the same and connect them with quality genre entertainment more than ever before – hence, the name and the mission Pulp 2.0. ”

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For more information, or to schedule an interview please contact:

newpulpmedia@gmail.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/pulp2ohpress
Twitter: @madpulpbastard
www.pulp2ohpress.com
www.donaldfglut.com

Brother Blood
By Donald F Glut, cover art by Nik Macaluso from Pulp 2.0 Press

The classic vampire “blaxploitation” novel from author Donald F. Glut (THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK, TRANSFORMERS). A vampire stalks 1969′s groovy Sunset Strip. The police are clueless but a trio of true believers know the horror in their midst. Written in the same style as the original Dracula, Brother Blood is a bloodsucker for the Groovy Age.

Publication Date:Feb 05 2010
ISBN/EAN13:1450576397 / 9781450576390
Page Count: 372
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5.25″ x 8″
Language: English
Color:Black and White
Related Categories: Fiction / Horror
Retail: $18.99