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News January 23, 2019

Switchblade: Stiletto Heeled

Special Issue: Women of Noir
Lisa Douglass “Rule for Buying a Gun” (verse)
Contents
Lisa Douglass: Editor’s Notes

Quick & Dirty Flash
Cindy Rosmus “Dishes, Dishes, Dishes”
Ann Aptaker “Ring. Buzz”
Susan Kuchinskas “Concrete Blonde”

Micro Flash
Susan Comford “A Shot at Being Ordinary”

Sharp & Deadly Fiction
Tawny Pike “Death Dance in Jacksonino County”
Charlotte Platt “Strong-Armed and Dangerous”
Sarah Jilek “Priscilla, the Amazing Dancing Pig”
Sarah M. Chen “Influencers”
Bethany Maines “Mayhem & Mahalo”
Serena Jayne “Crazy Eights”
Carmen Jaramillo “A Sinner at the Hands of an Angry God”
E.F. Sweetman “Mouthbreather”
Lissa Marie Redmond “Hardball”

Author Bios & Acknowledgments

Switchblade: Stiletto Heeled special edition
Caledonia Press
Guest Editor: Lisa Douglass
Series Editor and cover photos: Scotch Rutherford
5” x 8”, 170 pages
POD $8.99 Kindle $2.99 (99¢ MatchBook)

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Uncategorized January 22, 2019

A.M. Soto’s Pack Up Your Troubles

Stories from Pulp Literature No. 15 Summer 2017:

A.M. Soto’s short story, “Pack Up Your Troubles,” alternates between the internal and external perspectives of one of Earth’s invaders. The story unfolds through the narrative’s shifts in orientation, and the twists of expectations provide enough entertainment to keep things interesting

My thanks to Kevin Tipple and James Reasoner for their recent posts about The Digest Enthusiast No. 9.

Vault January 21, 2019

Alfred Hitchcock Sep. 1959

Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine Sep. 1959

Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine Vol. 4 No. 9 Sep. 1959
Alfred Hitchcock: Dear Readers
Contents
C.B. Gilford “Death Comes for Some Ladies”
Jacques Gillies “The Plural Mr. Grimaud”
Stanley George “Two Hunters and a Girl”
Theodore Pratt “Give Me Ten Days”
Douglas Farr “For Every Evil”
Robert Edmond Alter “The Assassin”
Donald Honig “Voices in Dead Man’s Well”
Ted Leighton “Memory Game”
Lawrence Treat “who’s Innocent?”
Donald Martin “Hot and Buried”
William Link and Richard Levinson “One Bad Winter Day”
Jack Dillion “The Look of Murder”

Publisher: Richard E. Decker
Editorial Director: William Manners
Managing Editor: G.F. Foster
Associate Editors: Pat Hitchcock, Ande Miller
Art Director: Meinrad Mayer

Opening Lines January 20, 2019

Joe Wehrle, Jr.’s Christmas Romance

The Digest Enthusiast No. 7 pages 100 and 101

Joe Wehrle, Jr. wrote two Christmas stories that I know of: “A Christmas Romance” and “Christmas Spirit in a Speakeasy.” The latter featuring Cauliflower Catnip. Joe first shared “Romance” with me in Autumn 2016, but we wanted it to see print before Christmas, and The Digest Enthusiast No. 5 was already scheduled for January. So the following year, we made it a point to get issue No. 7 out early, and on December 6, 2017 the story finally saw print. Joe created two new illustrations for it, one to open the story and one to close.

Here’s the opening line:

“The ship stood on its knobby support legs, casting bizarre shadows across the snow which drifted round the shattered planetoid base.”

Uncategorized January 19, 2019

Pulp Literature No. 21 Winter 2019

Contents
From the Pulp Lit Pulpit: Here’s to Another Five
In This Issue
Evelyn Lau “Gone” (verse)
Evelyn Lau “Forest Edge” (verse)
Evelyn Lau “Once Upon a Time . . .” (verse)
Feature Interview: Evelyn Lau by Daniel Cowper
Evelyn Lau Selected Bibliography
Mel Anastasiou “The Seven Swans: The Mystery of the Forgotten Soldier”
Joelle Kid “Echo/Narcissus”
Michael Bracken “The Fishmonger’s Wife”
Susan Pieters “Madame Sylvie’s Three Rules on Speaking for the Dead”
Emily Lonie “A Seed in Every Womb”
Margot Spronk “Rules of Salvage”
Graham J. Darling “A Pleasant Walk, A Pleasant Talk”
Jenny Blackford “The Golden Feather”
Leslie Wibberley “Stonecold”
The Hummingbird Prize for Flash Fiction
Nicholas Christian “The Angler”
Robert Runté “Day Three”
Kris Sayer “Under Pale Flesh” (comic)
JM Landels “Allaigna’s Song: Aria” Verse 18–20
The Artists: Melissa Mary Duncan (cover), Kris Sayer, Mel Anastasiou
Hall of Fame (Patreon supporters)
Marketplace
Contests

Publisher: Pulp Literature Press
Managing Editor: Jennifer Landels
Acquisitions Editor: Melanie Anastasiou
Story Editor: Jessica Fabrizius
Poetry Editors: Daniel Cowper, Emily Osborne
Copy Editor/Designer: Amanda Bidnall
Proofreader: Mary Rykov
Cover Layout: Kate Landels
205 pages
$4.99 Kindle
Pulp Literature website

Reviews January 18, 2019

Carmen Jaramillo’s Long Arm

Stories from Switchblade issue two, edited by Scotch Rutherford:

Carmen Jaramillo reaches for justice in “The Long Arm,” a tightly-crafted yarn about long- and short-term thinking—all of it bad. Rolly Walden found the Lord in Joliet. Little Mary found Rolly in a Minnesotan mining town watering hole. The only question between this pair is, “Who’s the stranger?”

And speaking of indie pulp digests, EconoClash Review’s Editor/Publisher posted the first review of The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 on Goodreads. Thanks JD!

Interviews January 17, 2019

Rick Ollerman on editing

Excerpt from the interview with Rick Ollerman, editor of Down & Out: The Magazine, appearing in The Digest Enthusiast No. 7.

“My usual process is to open the document in my word processor and change the font color to red. Then as I read, I make notes in square brackets suggesting typo fixes and other grammatical issues, but also problems with the stories, if they exist. These would include things like having someone do something in one scene and later referring to them having done something different.

“If something comes to mind that I think would make the story stronger or more clear, I put it in there. Then I send it back to the author—all changes must come from them, other than basic typos. The story is always theirs, and most importantly, they always have to retain the feeling that it is theirs.”

Blog featured image, a portrait of Rick Ollerman by Joe Wehrle, Jr.

TDE Update January 16, 2019

Five Star Posts

Contributor copies of The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 are starting to arrive. Thanks to Michael Bracken, Josh Pachter, and Pulp Literature Managing Editor Jennifer Landels for including TDE in their recent social media posts.

We also received our first review on Amazon from Steve Alcorn, author and founder of the Writing Academy, which offers excellent online instruction on writing fiction, SF, mysteries, and nonfiction at very reasonable rates.

Opening Lines January 15, 2019

Opening Lines

Opening line from “The Shunned House” by Robert Edmond Alter Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine May 1966:

“The abandoned Yost house has stood in shunned isolation for nearly two hundred years.”

Uncategorized January 14, 2019

Alan Orloff’s Getting Away

An excerpt from my review of Black Cat Mystery Magazine No. 1 from The Digest Enthusiast No. 7:

Alan Orloff offers the opening gambit in this issue with “Getting Away.” Lloyd Birnbaum runs a one-man travel agency. Has for years. He does book travel for the sake of the rubes, but relocation, along with fresh identities for his criminal clientele is where his real fortunes lie. Orloff is the author of several novels—mysteries and thrillers. He garnered an Agatha nomination in 2010, and a Kindle Scout award for Running From the Past, in 2015.