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Still Reading for Pulphouse…

Finding Some Great Writing…

In fact, it is easy to say that almost none of the stories I have been reading are slush material. Almost none. Most of the stories pull me into the story with good depth and great characters and sometimes great voice. Yet I still am sending back a lot of them.

Why? They don’t shout “Pulphouse Story.” Clearly they are good stories, maybe even great stories, but if they don’t have that “Pulphouse” feel, I stop reading and send it back and tell the writer why.

I will be through the last stories sent in from the Series Collides Kickstarter in a week and in the upcoming Pulphouse subscription drive I am going to make the offer to writers again in the stretch goals to send me a story a month. (This year I promise to not get behind in my reading. Never should have happened.)

So if you have a story in to me from earlier this spring, I will have a response to you shortly.

I have really enjoyed the writing and the stories. I have read a bunch all the way to the end and still sent them back. Pulphouse stories have a particular feel to them. No genre limitations, just feel.

So stay tuned.

2 Comments

  • Mark Kuhn

    Glad to hear the storm clouds are beginning to clear, Dean. Sad thing is those great stories that don’t make it into Pulphouse have no where else to go, especially with the new contracts at the Flim Flam Five.

    • dwsmith

      Oh, there are other markets still out there and actually in this modern world of indie publishing, there are a thousand great things to do with a short story.

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