B.C. Bell's Blog

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           I love Westerns. I have yet to
write a serious one, but c’mon, what could be more pulp? Science Fiction, Hard
Boiled Crime, The Weird Tale, The Pulp Hero, Adventure, and the Western have
always been the big six pulp genres for me, even if the Smithsonian did only
let the first three in.


Painting by Walter Baumhoffer


As a writer, you can learn

The good people at Bags Unlimited, makers of plastic bags for all your collecting needs, were kind enough to ask me a few questions like "Why pulp?"






And, some others with answers involving a Weird Tale in progress, a soon to be released Phantom Detective book, The Bagman, and, of course, James Cagney. Check it out, just click the link.

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MYSTERY MEN (& Women)

Volume IV





Airship 27 Productions thrilled to announce the release of our latest volume of Mystery Men (& Women) Volume # 4.  As in previous editions, the volume offers up another quartet of new, original pulp heroes by today’s finest pulp writers.



Ron Fortier, Managing Editor of Airship 27
Productions reminds fans of the series’ beginnings. “After a few

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Hey, Gang! I'm back, and so's the blog!

Guess it's pretty obvious I wanted to keep that ad for Tales of The Bagman Volume Three up for awhile, eh? Don't forget it's also available in audio, so you can listen to adventure while you're adventuring.

Fellow Chicago Writer, Joe Bonadonna, was kind enough to recently interview me, and today you can go read it live at Black Gate, Adventures in Fantasy

Third Time's the Charm


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If You Miss BLACK FRIDAY FESTIVITIES at BEYOND THE LIMIT, the Terrorists Win!




Author B.C. Bell (Tales of The Bagman, Bipolar Express) and Joe Bonadonna (Mad Shadows, Waters of Darkness, Three Against the Stars) will be signing books at BEYOND THE LIMIT'S BLACK FRIDAY FESTIVITIES! Live Lit, Live Music! Big Sales, Ten Dollar Band T-Shirts, Hoodies, CD's, Collectibles, Smokers stuff,

When Frederick Faust (Max Brand) met Robert H. Davis, chief executive of the Munsey Publishing empire in 1917. The legend goes like this:

"Davis prided himself on being able to spot a comer (he had purchased some of Joseph Conrad's early work, and is credited with discovering O. Henry; this is dubious, however, as Arthur Grissom, Smart Set's first editor, purchased O. Henry's first four stories,

 

“Fast One [is] some kind of high point in the ultra hard-boiled
manner.”

--Raymond Chandler



The good people at Pro Se
Productions recently published my novella SOMETIMES THEY PAY IN BULLETS, a
tribute to Paul Cain, in their spectacularly villainous BLACK FEDORA ANTHOLOGY—which
I assure you is not to be missed. It’s a collection of three very