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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.”

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.

TDE Update January 7, 2019

Fiction, News, and Reviews

Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019:

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 50 and 51

Crime, espionage, and fantasy fiction by Michael Bracken, Josh Pachter, and Joe Wehrle, Jr., with art from Marc Myers, Michael Neno, and Joe.

News from all your favorite genre digest magazines, straight from their editors’ lips, including every newsstand stalwart, and the new generation of POD/digital stars.

In-depth reviews of EconoClash Review, Nostalgia Digest, Occult Detective Quarterly, and Hot Lead.

Plus over 100 digest magazine cover images, cartoons by Bob Vojtko and Clark Dissmeyer, first issue factoids, and more.

Cover by Ed Emshwiller, 160 pages, published by Larque Press. $8.99 print, $2.99 digital.

TDE Update January 6, 2019

Manhunt 1954 part one

Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019:

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 146 and 147

Peter Enfantino delivers a story-by-story synopsis of Manhunt from January thru June 1954. Plus a report on the rare western digest paperback, Sunset Showdown by Steve Frazee.

TDE Update January 5, 2019

One-and-Dones part three

Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019:

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 104 and 105

Steve Carper wraps “One-and-Dones” with a final, fascinating batch of obscure and/or rare collector’s treasures.

TDE Update January 4, 2019

Elke Sommer’s Ghosts

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 80 and 81

Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019:

Tom Brinkmann uncovers Benedict Canyon, where Elke Sommer and Joe Hyams joined “A Neighborhood of Ghosts” from 1964 to 1969.

TDE Update January 3, 2019

Ray Palmer’s Digest Dynasty

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 58 and 59

Inside The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 January 2019:

Vince Nowell, Sr. charts Ray Palmer’s digest dynasty from 1948 to 1958, followed by the bibliography of S.J. Byrne, one of Palmer’s go-to SF storytellers.

Special thanks to this issue’s advertisers:
Bud’s Art Books
Fantasy Illustrated
Mike Chomko Books
Modern Age Books
Pulp Modern
PulpFest 2019
Stark House Press
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TDE Update January 2, 2019

Victoria Green

The Digest Enthusiast book nine is now available from the big river and will be in stock soon at these premier booksellers: Bud’s Art Books, DreamHaven Books, and Mike Chomko Books.

The Digest Enthusiast No. 9 pages 116 and 117

Senior Art Director Victoria Green takes us behind the scenes of the art department at AHMM, Analog, Asimov’s, and EQMM, complemented by artist’s confidentials from Tim Foley and Maurizio Manzieri.