I never read much fiction. I never read much full stop. When I read I read non-fiction until last year when I decided to start my BookTube channel. In August I participated in the GarbAugust readathon and I discovered the 1920s and 1930s pulps. And I’m eating it up. I just love it.
Pulp novels are the direction I want to take with my writing career. You are someone I would love to exchange emails with about this topic and throw loads of questions at you.
Same here. The pulps are more how I wrote when I was trying to write novels in middle school and high school, only I did YA slice of life kids horror and weird tales (it was the 1990s and R.L. Stine's Goosebumps was almost as big as Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games would be in the 2000s and 2010s). I could bring that back.
Just stumbled upon this, Jake. Great stuff. This is precisely what I do with about a dozen or so series ranging from hard-boiled PI to action/adventure/occult to romantic noir. I also embrace the hybrid author method of half traditional and half indie. 60 novels and novellas and dozens of short stories...
I have a question! I would like to write pulps but have no idea where to start or who to ask to publish it, what do I do, I feel like I have a wealth of creativity in me and I'd like to write down a full story but don't know how long to make it since from what I understand most pulps went along very fast.
Length is easy: for novels aim around 65k to 85k. That's a good ballpark. As for publishers, there are a few small presses that are great, and even some of the bigger publishing houses are looking for pulpy content, but don't worry about them yet. Get your novel written first. That is the key. :)
I never read much fiction. I never read much full stop. When I read I read non-fiction until last year when I decided to start my BookTube channel. In August I participated in the GarbAugust readathon and I discovered the 1920s and 1930s pulps. And I’m eating it up. I just love it.
Pulp novels are the direction I want to take with my writing career. You are someone I would love to exchange emails with about this topic and throw loads of questions at you.
@Haven Thank you. I currently have 4 books to my name, so I’m doing okay.
@Haven I’ve been doing them as podcasts on Anchor. Haven’t done them on here since RUclips killed Hangouts.
@Haven Same as the streams.
@Haven Yes.
Same here. The pulps are more how I wrote when I was trying to write novels in middle school and high school, only I did YA slice of life kids horror and weird tales (it was the 1990s and R.L. Stine's Goosebumps was almost as big as Harry Potter, Twilight, and Hunger Games would be in the 2000s and 2010s). I could bring that back.
Just stumbled upon this, Jake. Great stuff. This is precisely what I do with about a dozen or so series ranging from hard-boiled PI to action/adventure/occult to romantic noir. I also embrace the hybrid author method of half traditional and half indie. 60 novels and novellas and dozens of short stories...
Thank you for this advice. I want to go in a more pulpy direction with some works i want to write
I have a question! I would like to write pulps but have no idea where to start or who to ask to publish it, what do I do, I feel like I have a wealth of creativity in me and I'd like to write down a full story but don't know how long to make it since from what I understand most pulps went along very fast.
Length is easy: for novels aim around 65k to 85k. That's a good ballpark. As for publishers, there are a few small presses that are great, and even some of the bigger publishing houses are looking for pulpy content, but don't worry about them yet. Get your novel written first. That is the key. :)
@@jakebiblefiction Or, if you can, self-publish your pulps. But only if you have the cash and talented connections to do it.