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On March 1, the history books get a lot more interesting...

Aztec vampires gorge themselves on a small Mexican village. A masked hero of the 1940s stumbles onto a town that time forgot. A gunslinging exorcist works to save a boy from demonic possession. These are the stories of the American West your history teacher never told you about... because she was scared!

Edited by Russ Anderson, HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD is an anthology featuring nine original, genre-mashing stories of cowboys, Indians, aliens, exorcists, and tentacled horrors from other worlds... all wrapped in an original cover by Jim Rugg (STREET ANGEL, AFRODISIAC).

Those stories? Glad you asked, pardner.

Camazotz, by Josh Reynolds (available as a free preview)
Wyrm Over Diablo, by Joel Jenkins
Space Miners, by Ian Taylor
Don Cuevo's Curative, by Thomas Deja
The Town With No Name, by Mike McGee and Chris Munn
Sins of the Past, by Barry Reese
You Need to Know What's Coming, by Ian Mileham
Of All the Plagues a Lover Bears, by Derrick Ferguson
Out South of Borachon Creek, by Bill Kte'pi

Cover price is $11.95 - that's peanuts for this kind of entertainin'.

HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD will be available for order on Pulpwork and Amazon on March 1. But if you'd like to get a jump on everyone else, it's available for pre-order right now on the Pulpwork Press website. Order before March 1 and get free shipping in the US!

It's Day Five of our blog-tour celebrating the release of Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell, and that means that it's Russ Anderson's (How The West Was Weird) turn at bat! Head over to his blog and check out his detailed look at Dillon's creation and first novel outing! Go check it out, and afterward, stop back by here for a sneak peek at the book itself, then, if you're interested, why not pick up a copy?

We're marching back to Mars today! Why, you may ask? Because it's the fourth stop on our blog-tour celebrating the release of Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell! Check out Joel Jenkins blog as he puts three questions to Dillon author, Derrick Ferguson. Go check it out, and afterward, stop back by here for a sneak peek at the book itself, then, if you're interested, why not pick up a copy?

Today we hit the third stop on our Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell blog-tour-Percival Constantine's eponymous blog! Percival gives us an look into the mind of the book's author, Derrick Ferguson, with an in-depth interview. Go check it out, and afterward, stop back by here

for a sneak peek at the book itself, then, if you're interested, why not pick up a copy?

The second stop on our blog-tour celebrating the release of Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell is my blog-Hunting Monsters. A year or so ago I received a mysterious package in the post relating to our man of the hour, and today I delve into it a bit to see if I can pierce the veil of mystery around the man called Dillon. Go check it out, and afterward, stop back by here
for a sneak peek at the book itself, then, if you're interested, why not pick up a copy?

The first stop on our Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell blog tour is at Joel Jenkins' awesome blog-The Vaults of Caladrex! Joel is taking a look at the wonderful cover for the latest entry in the pulse-pounding Dillon series , masterfully crafted by El Gorgo! artist Tamas Jakab! Go check it out, and afterward, stop back by here for a sneak peek at the book itself, then, if you're interested, why not pick up a copy?

It's here! Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell has arrived in our store and on Amazon with an e-book release to follow in February! But that's not all! Starting this week, we'll take the book on a whirlwind blog tour as we travel from the PulpWork offices to the sands of Mars and beyond (And there' s still time to get in on the act, if you're interested! Just contact us at pulpworkpress at hotmail dot com!)! Come back here tomorrow for more on THE GOLDEN BELL BLOG-TOUR!

"James Bond meets Cthulhu"

When old enemies and an emissary from a far country rudely interrupt Dillon's vacation, he discovers that an old friend has managed to embroil him in a brewing civil war of the island nation of Xonira. The Lord Chancellor of Xonira figures he can unite the enemy factions if he recovers the ancient artifact called the Golden Bell and so he hires Dillon and Eli to recover it from the haunted vaults of the sealed Blagdasen Citadel. But what good can come from unearthing an artifact forged in blood? And what of the ancient forces of evil guarding it? The author of The Nuclear Suitcase, Joel Jenkins, describes Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell as "James Bond meets Cthulhu" and you'll want to check out this heady mixture of the spy thriller and horror genres.

Interested in getting a preview of the book? Head over to our custom Dillon page for previews of both Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell AND the first book in the series, Dillon and the Voice of Odin (also available on Amazon!)!. And in the coming months, look for previews of the THIRD in the series (coming in 2011), DILLON AND THE PIRATES OF XONIRA!

Now for the station identification...

Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell
by Derrick Ferguson
Pulpwork Press Trade Paperback
282 pages, Retail: $11.95
ISBN-10: 1449590632, ISBN-13: 978-1449590635
Now Available at Amazon.com, PulpworkPress.com, and soon in electronic format at Fictionwise.com

If you're a book-seller interested in stocking this book in your store, please contact us at pulpworkpress at hotmail dot com. If you're interested in providing a review or otherwise helping with the promotion of this book, please contact us at the same address.

Yeah. This is going to be a big year folks. After 2009's paltry showing, 2010 will see the release of no less than SIX new PulpWork Press titles, and the beginning of one new series as well the continuation of two old favorites! So feel free to cheer.

First up on the block...DILLON AND THE LEGEND OF THE GOLDEN BELL! Derrick Ferguson's long awaited sequel to Dillon and the Voice of Odin will be arriving in our store and on Amazon in just a week or two, and to celebrate we'll be hosting a blog-tour!

What is a blog-tour, you ask? Well, it's like a book tour, only more sedentary. And on blogs as opposed to in bookstores. If you're interested in helping out or participating, shoot an e-mail to pulpworkpress at hotmail dot com. There's free stuff in it for you...

But that's not all! No, we've got a sneak peek at the book in question available for you to check out on our site here, along with a whole host of others. In fact, before the end of next month we'll have the first chapter of EVERY book currently on sale from us available to read FOR FREE on our website!

Speaking of which, the website itself will be going through some changes over the next few weeks as we re-organize and streamline it for the coming year. We'll be adding new series' pages as well as improving existing pages. So check back often to see the changes!

And, finally, to start the new year off right, we have a new entry in the Movie Review Notebook by Derrick Ferguson...this time, he's taking on the biggest blockbuster of last year...James Cameron's AVATAR!

So why not do some of your holiday shopping with us? PulpWork Press titles are available from both Amazon and Fictionwise. You can also buy them direct from us, courtesy of our very own PWP store!

But if you're not sure about slapping down your hard-earned cash on one of our elegant, hand-crafted works of fictive genius, why not take a moment to peruse the variety of free offerings available on the website? We have the first chapters from several books, including the newly released Nuclear Suitcase, by Joel Jenkins, on our site, as well as the first story in our 2010 anthology, How the West was Weird, edited by Russ Anderson!

And if that's not enough, why not check out the newest entry in Derrick Ferguson's Movie Review Notebook, as he tells you why you probably need to see Nimrod Antal's ARMORED!

...At least that's what Derrick Ferguson thinks! Check out his review of 2012 over in the Movie Review Notebook. Then, while you're here, why not check out our variety of available titles? We've got sneak peeks of next year's releases Dillon and the Legend of the Golden Bell,  and How The West Was Weird!

Get reading...oh, and Happy Thanksgiving for those of our readers in the US of A!