BALLOT FOR PULP FACTORY AWARDS OFFICIALLY RELEASED; VOTING NOW OPEN UNTIL 3/15 AWARDS TO BE GIVEN OUT AT WINDY CITY PULP & PAPER

Lombard, Illinois – February 21, 2016

With April’s Windy City Pulp and Paper approaching fast, the ballot for the 2016 Pulp Factory Awards – to be handed out at the conference – has just opened up for voting by the reading public.

(The ballot can be found online at ​http://bit.ly/2016PFAwardBallot​ )

Voters have until Tuesday, March 15th to select one nominee in several categories. (We are limiting voting to the electronic ballot via Google forms to simplify the process). Nominees in each category are as follows:

BEST PULP NOVEL
LIE CATCHERS (Paul Bishop; Pro Se Productions)
THE CAGLIOSTRO CHRONICLES III: INTO THE HEART OF EVIL (Ralph Angelo, Jr; Cosmic Comet)
JEZEBEL JOHNSON: DEVIL'S HANDMAIDEN (Nancy Hansen; Pro Se Productions)
VINNIE DE SOTH, JOBBING OCCULTIST (I.A. Watson; Chillwater Press)
LADY ACTION: THE SANDS OF FOREVER (Ron Fortier; Airship 27)
THE GRIM SPECTRE (Ralph Angelo, Jr; Cosmic Comet)
BAD TIMES FOUR: HELLDORADO (Chuck Dixon; Bruno Books)
MANHATTAN CONFIDENTIAL: MALLOY AND RUSSELL, BOOK 2 (Elizabeth K Wadsworth; Elizabeth K Wadsworth)

BEST PULP COVER
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION (Douglas Klauba; Airship 27)
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Marco Turini; Airship 27)
BARANAK: STORMING THE GATES (Mark Williams; White Rocket Books)
DOMINO LADY: VOL 1 (Ted Hammond; Airship 27)
THE LEMON HERBERTS (Michael Hegedus; Pro Se Productions)
NIGHT HAWK: BURNING SKIES (Douglas Klauba; Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE VOL 7 (Michael Youngblood; Airship 27)

BEST PULP SHORT STORY
A Different Kind of People (Chuck Miller; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
Nature of the Beast (BC Bell; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
Spring-Heeled Jack (I.A. Watson; SHERLOCK HOLMES: CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7; Airship 27)
Voodah of the Mountain (Derrick Ferguson; LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION; Airship 27)
When Angels Fall (Gordon Dymowski; DREAMERS SYNDROME: NEW WORLD NAVIGATION; Space Buggy Press)

BEST PULP INTERIOR ILLUSTRATIONS
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Rob Davis; Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7 (Rob Davis; Airship 27)
SIX GUN TERRORS, VOL 2 (Zachary Brunner; Airship 27)

BEST PULP ANTHOLOGY
LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION (Airship 27)
BASS REEVES, FRONTIER MARSHAL, VOL 1 (Airship 27)
SHERLOCK HOLMES, CONSULTING DETECTIVE, VOL 7 (Airship 27)
THE LEMON HERBERTS (Pro Se Productions)

After March 15th, the committee will tally all of the electronic votes via http://bit.ly/2016PFAwardBallot, and the winners will be announced at the Windy City Pulp and Paper Convention from April 22 – April 24th, 2016.

Questions and concerns should be directed to PulpAwards@gmail.com. This will insure a more prompt response than reaching out to individual committee members.

Thank you for your interest, and looking forward to your votes!

A downloadable version of this release can be found via http://bit.ly/PFARel​

As I mentioned before, there are two annual sets of awards out there in "pulp fiction" territory. This is the second of them. I've won a couple of these in the past. The trophies are nice, although this year I gather they're getting redesigned.

Although I missed a Best Novel nomination (despite, or possibly because of, releasing three novels in 2015), two anthologies I contributed to got Best Anthology nominations, LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION and SHERLOCK HOLMES CONSULTING DETECTIVE vol 7. My story for the latter of those also got a nomination for Best Short Story.

There's a podcast about the awards that I'm told discusses the works and creators (I haven't listened to it yet) online and downloadable at http://zone4podcast.com/airship-27-podcast-13-pulp-factory-awards/

No you didn't.




Voted.

All the best with it.

I hope that you win, and that the newly designed trophies are as nice as the prior ones!

The old ones originally looked like this:



That's the first one I won, for a Sherlock Holmes short story. And it's missing its nib, which disappeared in transit, probably when customs decided it would be better in kit form.

The one I got last year was a bit fatter, presumably because they size these things based on recipient weight.

You might remember that you picked up a shortlist nomination for one of these too, Adam, for Best Cover Artist re BLACKTHORN: DYNASTY OF MARS.

A list of previous years' winners and shortlisted nominees up to 2012 is still online here