It's hard to believe that this issue wraps up our first year. Thanks to all of our our readers and contributors for helping to make us a success! Our number of subscribers is now through the roof! To recieve our latest issue, and subscribe to our online publication for free, click here

We begin emailing tomorrow! We have many treats in store for you in the next year, why not gear up for it with our Year in Review issue!

Recently some very major changes have taken place at NexGen Pulp due to personnel shifts, schedules, available resources and technical issues. So there is some bad news, but we hope the good news will outweigh it.

Let's start with the bad news and get it out of the way. So that everyone does not have to read everypart of this blog, I'll divide it up into areas of interest.

For Writers/Artists: Many of you who have submitted work to us ages ago may be wondering why the hell no one has gotten back to you. While we must take some of the blame for getting behind schedule, the problem was exacerbated by our email server crashing. We thought we had salvaged the submissions, but it turns out that there were many that were lost. We are reviewing the submissions we have found and are currently closed to new submissions to get through them. If you would like to know if your submission is still with us, or if you need to withdraw it from consideration, feel free to contact us at editor@nexgenpulp.com Please do not resend the file to this email address. If you are still interested in submitting a work that was lost, we will instruct you how to be sure we have received it.

For Readers:Unfortunately, we will no longer be offering our hardcopies. At least not in the format we have been. We are looking into offering them on Lulu, but we will keep you posted on that. For those who have already ordered a future hardcopy, check your email in the next day or two for a refund, and you will also recieve a free copy of the online issue. The last bit of bad news before we get to the good, is that after the December issue, and beginning in 2009, NexGen Pulp will become a quarterly publication, with its first 2009 issue coming out in March.

But here's the good news!!! Since we will primarily be an online publication, and since our goal is to provide writers with exposure and readers with quality, literary pulp fiction, we will begin distributing the online version of our magazine for free! Look for an update in the next few days on our website for the appopriate mailing list sign up. The quality of the mag will be improved as we will no longer be hindered by hardcopy limitations.

Pinup Subs: Due to our photographers increasingly busy schedule and the popularity or our Halloween pinup contest, we will be offering many more opportunities for readers to send in their own sexy pinup submissions for the magazine. Look for updates concerning this at the first of the year.

It's been a wildly successful first year for our magazine, and we thank all of the contributors and readers who have helped to make it so. We look forward to providing you with quality pulp fiction for many years to come. Thanks for sticking with us!

    Ever since we first went to press almost a year ago, eager models have been if they could send in their own sexy pinup pictures for publication. As we have an in house photographer who takes specifically themed photos for each issue, we've always had to decline. Which is why we instituted the featured reader page to showcase our lovely fans.

    But now, for our first ever Halloween issue only, we will feature your very own pinup pics instead of our usual chosen model centerfold. NexGen Pulp is in the process of moving its physical location, and schedules and issues that were out of our hands have prevented us from accomplishing a successful pinup shoot for the upcoming issue.

    So, we are going to push back the release date of this specific issue (which will contain some amazing features and fiction!) a couple of weeks to October 11, still in plenty of time for Halloween. In the meantime, grab your photographer friend our camera remote, and take the sexiest, pulpiest pic you can. Send them to editor@nexgenpulp.com We will accept photos until October 4th, then we will choose a handful of luck winners. Chosen photos will be featured in the October issue and later on our website. And space will be given for each winner to plug themselves on a bio page.

    If you have any questions, send an email to the address above. Don't worry; we'll be back to our usual  format in the December issue, but what fun is Halloween if you can't break a few rules? Have fun, and we look forward to seeing what you come up with!

P.S. past contributors to the magazine are welcome to participate! 

We've been lucky enough at NexGen Pulp to have some very talented, destined for big things, horror writers submit to our magazine. You met Kevin in our last blog; now meet Dave!

I'm Dave Dunwoody, a horror writer, and I'm no good at biographies.

I like dogs but I'm really a cat person. My favorite author is Lovecraft and my favorite  director/storyteller is Cronenberg. He needs to go back to body horror. I miss the squeamishness. I love the Police and secretly love Kelly Clarkson's last album - don't tell anybody. I'm a wayward Christian and a former addict, in no particular order. If you ask me, Seinfeld was a really good show. Where's Judy Garland lately? I alternately thrive on nightmares and caffeine - I mean, I REALLY love having nightmares. If you do too I recommend Welbutrin. Zombies rule and vampires drool. Fave non-horror book is Catch-22. I recently lost half my eyesight, but I'll be damned if that's going to stop me from taking up space online and at Borders.

They say "a writer writes". I've been writing as long as I can remember, but it wasn't until I started contributing fiction and reviews to The Hacker's Source magazine (http://eveblaackpub.com/ebp/doorway.htm) that the possibility of really being a writer flickered to life. It was through Hacker that I was introduced to Permuted Press, who have published several of my zombie stories, as well as the novella "Lost Souls" - a retelling of a story I wrote when I was 9 - in THE UNDEAD: HEADSHOT QUARTET.

In April, Permuted publihed my first novel, EMPIRE. (http://www.amazon.com/dp/1934861022) It's a zombie tale set a full century after the outbreak, and ties together a lot of my other Permuted zombie tales.

http://daviddunwoody.com/ has info on my publications, links to free fiction - including the ongoing serial novel The Harvest Cycle - and links to interviews and reviews.

Free fiction available on the web includes:
- Audio production of the short tale "Saligia" on "Library of the Living Dead" (http://dr-pus.podomatic.com/entry/2008-08-11T04_18_29-07_00)
- Short film "Snuff" on Youtube (http://youtube.com/watch?v=GxDuOQJ080o)
- Short story "He Likes Them Old Bones" at Yellow Mama (http://blackpetalsks.tripod.com/yellowmamaarchives/id77.html)
- Short story "In the Clay" at susurrus (http://www.susurrusmagazine.com/5vol2/intheclay.htm)
- The novella "AfterDead", a prequel to EMPIRE (http://groups.google.com/group/empirenovel/files)
- The Harvest Cycle (http://harvestcycle.blogspot.com/)

Updates on my life and writing are usually posted at my MySpace (http://www.myspace.com/thac) or my forum at Permuted. (http://permutedpress.com/smf/index.php?board=2.0)
 
I continue to write horror reviews for Hacker as well as oh-the-horror.com, and I plug away at my fiction. Some big developments have just happened (like just today) in the fiction realm, but unfortunately I'm unable to offer anything more than a tease. Watch my space!

This is the first of our NexGen Author feature blogs. First up is Kevin Lucia. Kevin contributed a very fine piece of pulp to our first issue, and we are glad to have him back in our Aug/Sept issue. If you haven't obtained your copy yet, you can do so through our website: www.nexgenpulp.com We offer online copies and hard copies as well. Come join the world of pulp fiction!

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Endorsements:

Kevin Lucia's Way Station is a smartly worded story of a writer unable to repeat the success of his first novel. In a handful of pages Lucia creates a paranormal thriller worthy of Rod Serling's THE TWILIGHT ZONE.

Larry Shallenberger, author of Divine Intentions

Kevin Lucia scares me a little bit, and for that I thank him. Way Station, the story of a writer confronting the frightening thing to write--which is most assuredly the thing he was meant to write--hits uncomfortably close to home. Contained in the story: the scary truth that each of us has the power to usher in victory or destruction. Darn you, Kevin, for reminding us not to squander our talent and miss the turn-off on that road to destiny. I was having an easy day before this.

Tosca Lee, author of Demon: A Memoir

Lucia's lucid storytelling brings out the choices that so often happen in those little out of the way places that have a reality all their own

Ben Culburtson, editor of Coach's Midnight Diner

I write for The Press & Sun Bulletin and The Relief Journal. My short fiction has appeared in a few places, most notably in Coach's Midnight Diner, The Relief Journal, NexGen Pulp Magazine, From the Shadows, Morpheus Tales Magazine, Bohemian-Alien, Shroud Publishing's horror anthology, Abominations, and Tyndale House's inspirational anthology Life Savors.  I'm currently writing a novella for Shroud Publishing's upcoming novella series, The Hiram Grange Chronicles, entitled, Hiram Grange & The Chosen One. My first short story ever, "Way Station", won the editor's choice award for Coach's Midnight Diner, and was re-printed in The Relief Journal's "Best of 2007" edition.

I live in ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Castle Creek, New York, with my wife Abby, daughter Madison and son Zackary.  I teach high school English at Seton Catholic Central High School in Binghamton, New York; and I'm currently pursuing my Masters of Arts in Creative Writing at Binghamton University. Visit me on the web at www.kevinlucia.net and www.myspace.com/kevinblucia.

So, after that rather self-important intro, what else is there to know? I love writing and reading, that much is obvious. I love writing in all its forms though; non-fiction, prose, and poetry (though I'm terrible at the later!). I teach high school English, and though I enjoy it, I have to be honest: I just want to write. (Because of this, I think Mr. Holland's Opus is the scariest movie ever! True horror, in my opinion).

I'd call myself an average writer. I do a few things well, but I have a lot to learn. One of my biggest strengths is character development and internal conflict, one of my biggest weaknesses is intricate plotting. Then again, these are also the novels I love to read most: character-oriented fiction.

I'm the proud father of two rambunctious children; one girl: Madison, age 3, and one boy: Zackary, age 1 1/2. years. Between that, teaching, and grad school, how do I find time to write? Well, I'm working on my MA in Creative Writing, so that helps: merging my graduate studies with my love. However, I wake up at 3 AM every morning to write for three hours until everyone else gets up. I've been a little lazy this summer, however! J

Without the support of my wife, none of this would be possible.

Genre? I'd like to write in them all (except for Polish-American Historical Romance). I'm more attracted to certain characters and stories about life, and then genre comes secondary. Also, I find myself in a strange place: I'm a spiritual person: believer in God, lover of Christ – but I find myself drawn to works of darker nature.  Although I believe in general Christian Fiction, (Tom Morrissey is one of my favorites), I don't really believe in things like "Christian Horror", or "Christian Science Fiction". I'm happy to write overtly about my faith in non-fiction, but for my fiction, I'd rather just write a story with no limits or boundaries.

Currently, things seem to be on an upswing for me. My recent story, "Water God of Clarke Street", was accepted into Shroud Publishing's monster anthology, Abominations, and I'm also writing my first full length for work Shroud's upcoming dark fantasy novella series, The Hiram Grange Chronicles. My novella will be entitled Hiram Grange & The Chosen One. I'm enjoying it, but of course am plagued by the fear I'll never finish it in time.

My story that appears in the August issue of NexGen Pulp Magazine, "My Brother's Keeper", is a story about two country boys who go exploring in an old house they really should leave alone.  In it, they could find all their greatest desires…or worst nightmares. It's a good little story, part of my graduate school thesis, a project I've tentatively entitled: Clifton Heights: Shadows Edge. It's going to be a collection of short stories that occur in one small town that's plagued by the supernatural. Think Dubliners over a Hellmouth (Buffy the Vampire Slayer).

If you like "My Brother's Keeper", please enjoy its companion story, The Sliding, which appears in Morpheus Tales Magazine's first issue. Same house, different boys. Also, enjoy other Clifton Height stories in the first issue of NexGen Pulp, "Darkness Road"; "Killing Time" in Triad Publishing Group's horror anthology, From the Shadows, "Water God of Clarke Street" in Shroud Publishing's horror anthology, Abominations, "Way Station" in Coach's Midnight Diner, and the free stories below, Brianna May's Greatest Christmas Wish Ever, Brianna May and The Wonderful, Horrible Water Sprite, and Making A Difference. The third companion story to "My Brother's Keeper", "Monsters", is due to published in a forthcoming issue of The Ghost Story Society's magazine, All Hallows.

I have a semi-monthly, free email newsletter that offers free fiction, poetry, non-fiction articles, interviews with other authors, and other stuff. All folks need to do is send an email to: newsletter@kevinlucia.net to sign up. This is big for the advent of Hiram Grange, because we'll be running lots of prizes for free stuff and such.

Other than that, there's not much to tell! Please add me on Myspace, drop me a line, and I hope you enjoy my small contribution to the fiction world! Also, enjoy some of my free stuff online:

Free Fiction:

Breathe - Bohemian-Alien (http://bohemian-alien.net/ezine/2008/02/21/breathe)

Brianna May's Greatest Christmas Wish Ever - Spec the Halls (http://www.aswiebe.com/specthehalls.html2007pfiction)

Asphalt Oceans by Midnight - Perpetual Magazine (http://perpetualmag.com/?page_id=18)

Brianna May and The Wonderful, Horrible Water Sprite - Perpetual Magazine (http://perpetualmag.com/?page_id=19)

Death Takes Flight (http://sebt.umwestern.edu/twistedink/Stories/DeathTakes.html)

Making a Difference (http://sebt.umwestern.edu/twistedink/Stories/MakingADifference.html)

Preview of The Sliders and Morpheus Tales 1: http://kevinlucia.net/theslidingpreview.pdf
Sample Edition of Coach's Midnight Diner: http://kevinlucia.net/SampleSizeCDiner.pdf

Non Fiction:

Path to Publication:Intro ( http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/124/1/)                                                                                         

Path to Publication:PartOne ( http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/127/1/)                                                                                            Path to Publication: Part Two (http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/137/1/)                                                                                       

Path to Publication: Part Three (http://www.reliefjournal.com/content/view/147/1/)

Work at Associated Content. (http://www.associatedcontent.com/user/25963/kevin_lucia.html)

Interviews (me being interviewed):

Interviewed By Binghamton University's Pipe Dream (http://bupipedream.com/current/index.php/articles/view/7746)
Interviewed by Author Geralyn Beauchamp (http://thetimemistress.blogspot.com/2008/03/interview-with-authorreviewer-kevin.html)

Check out C.L. Freire's BLOGfor a teaser preview of her book!  Pre-orders open on July 1st!

We've had the pleasure of printing her amazing words in our June/July issue & we know you're going to be pleased when you read her new excerpt!

Keep it spicy...

Well, it's more of a teaser of BIG NEWS, but here we go!

We have several things in the works:
 † Upcoming podcast interview with a HUGE name from a major Comic Book Universe!
 † We're working on several guest appearances at upcoming Cons - including one of the largest in the nation!
 † And.... we will be featuring our first male pinup - brave soul he is! - in the August/September issue!  That issue will also feature a beautiful female pinup as well!

Submissions are now open for August/September and October/November issues!  Keep them coming!

Keep it spicy...

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