Pulp Heroes now on Kindle

The Alchemy Press Book of Pulp Heroes, edited by Mike Chinn, is now available from the Kindle store on Amazon at $4.99 or equivalent. I can supply an ePub version, as well -- simply contact the alchemypress[at]gmail.com. A printed/paper copy is also available from Amazon and other online dealers.

To remind you, Pulp Heroes includes choice stories that take you to pulp worlds and heroic realms:

Mike Resnick – Origins

Robert William Iveniuk – House Name

Anne Nicholls – Eyes of Day, Eyes of Night

William Meikle – Ripples in the Ether

Chris Iovenko – The Perfect Murder

Bracken N MacLeod – Ivy's Secret Origin

Joshua Wolf – Crossing the Line

James Hartley – Jean Marie

Ian Gregory – Currier Dread and the Hair of Destruction

Amber L Husbands – The Going Rate

Michael Haynes – No Way but the Hard Way

Adrian Cole – The Vogue Prince

Joel Lane – Upon a Granite Wind

Milo James Fowler – The Last Laugh

Allen Ashley – In the Margins

Peter Crowther – Heroes and Villains

Peter Atkins – The Return of Boy Justice

Cover painting by Bob Covington

Sex, Lies and the Kindle

Sex, Lies and Family Ties by Sarah J Graham is now available for your Kindle via Amazon UK and Amazon USA.

Amazon shows the estimated page size as 14 pages. It's not; it's in the region of 214. Amazon is looking into it.

A Hot Time in the Old Town...

“Ty Oleson stepped out onto his porch, enjoying the bite of a desert winter. He searched his pants for a pipe, smiling just for the sheer hell of it. It sure was a glorious sunset: brilliant orange just on the horizon, shading to pink, then purple up into the higher sky. Nights like this, he reckoned it was easy to see why so many artsy folks came to Arizona. It was the light, they said – and most days he never could understand what was so special about it. But nights like this…

The flash was unexpected. Like summer lightning, but silent and a hell of a lot brighter. It came from towards the horizon – for a moment washing out all the other colours, leaving Ty blinking away a purple after-image. He lit his pipe, filling the cold evening air with deep fragrant smoke, giving himself time to think.

He hadn’t seen anything like that since the Great War: when the Krauts would waste days shelling the Allies’ trenches; turning the nights into endless, deafening, lurid flashes of high explosive. And even then, he’d seen nothing to compare; nothing so bright…

He stepped off the porch, favouring his left leg – a souvenir of the war. There were no more flashes; the night darkened as the orange slowly dimmed. Gradually the stars came out.

Ty waited a half hour or so, until it was full night and the thin scrape of moon didn’t offer up enough light to see as far as the first fence. Eventually he shrugged. Whatever it was, clearly it wasn’t going to happen again; and it was getting too cold to just sand around. He turned and began limping back to his shack.”

From “There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”. Read more in the Kindle edition of Mike Chinn’s Paladin Mandates.

The Paladin Mandates - revised edition

The updated edition of Mike Chinn's The Paladin Mandates is now available as an eBook – specifically as a Kindle book via Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com.

Mixing generous dollops of The Scorpion, The Shadow and Dominic Fortune, with a fascination for old airplanes, a taste for '30s detective fiction ... enter Damian Paladin, ghost hunter, supernatural sleuth. This revised edition features seven Paladin stories including a brand new tale, “There’ll be a Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight”.

ASIN: B007IJJQVO