Well, I am making some adjustments to this newsletter, which I must announce. First of which the PROFILES IN PULP & IRON will be revamped into video interviews that I hope to begin taping by the end of this month. It is my hope to profile filmmakers, content creators, artists, and writers of prose, comics & film. They will not be done live as I do not yet have the means of live streaming within my means, so for now they will be recorded in advance via PODCASTLE and distributed at least twice a month on this newsletter, a YouTube channel I will be setting up, my KO-FI page, and should the TIK-TOK deal go through I will be cutting the interviews down into mini segments to post on the platform.
Any future prose writing will be limited to film & book reviews/essays which I hope to post at least two a month. More prose fiction will be serialized in the future as well. I hope you all recently enjoyed the serialization of my novella GUNS DRAWN, which I had posted in seven parts. The next story to be serialized will likely be my now unpublished novel TREASURE OF THE APACHE that I hope to publish a second edition with a new cover and editing. For those who are new TREASURE OF THE APACHE was previously published, but I had unpublished due to my disappointment with the editing that was done, issues with the cover artist, and the fact that I made a lot of mistakes with how I went about publishing my first novel. So before publishing a second edition, the novel will be serialized on this newsletter sometime in May or June with the objective of publishing a chapter a week.
I would like to give a big shout out to Mike Baron, the creator of NEXUS who has been generous with his time to provide mentorship on my writing. Notably he gave me some much needed sage advice with GUNS DRAWN as I posted it. As Robert A. Heinlein mentored Ray Bradbury, Mike Baron has done the same for me and I will forever be grateful.
GUNS DRAWN which you can read on this newsletter in the archives will continue to be edited. Eventually I hope publish it in an anthology of crime stories with other writers in the future. Until then it’s a wait and see.
I am currently doing research and world building for three planned novels I hope to start writing one at a time by next month. What they are I will not say, but I would like to keep at least one of them open for a possible submission to ARK PRESS.
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This is so Awesome, Thomas!!💖