Pulp Empire: Modern Pulp Heroes

Pulp Empire’s second anthology of 2011 will be Modern Pulp Heroes (working title). The book’s concept is simple: invent new or revive classic public domain pulp heroes in the 21st century.

Stories should have a heavy heroic bent. We want tales of adventurers, masked men, avengers and crimefighters. Your lead should be larger than life, someone at the peak of human development or even past it. Think characters in the vein of the Spider, the Phantom Detective, the Moon Man or the Black Bat.

If your story is just a hard-boiled P.I. or a cop on the beat, we probably don’t want it. If your story spends a bunch of time contemplating the nature of evil, we probably don’t want it. We do want action. We do want excitement. We do want a narrative that takes all the great momentum of a classic pulp and updates it for the 21st century.

Word count is from 3,000 to 20,000 words, though longer stories may be considered.

Pulp Empire will consider reprinted work, but any reprint material must be clearly marked as such went submitted.

By submitting to Pulp Empire you certify that your work is wholly written by the given author.

Pulp Empire buys First Electronic and First North American print rights. You retain all copyright and reprint rights. Stories will remain available in print/electronic versions for perpetuity.

Pulp Empire will pay authors a percentage of print profits based per story on the number of contributors/stories in a given issue, usually in a range between 1% and 10%, determined by page count in the final volume. Back issue sales will continue to be paid at the same percentage as initially established in perpetuity, through its life in a print format. Payments will be distributed on a quarterly basis. We use PayPal only for monies distribution.

Pulp Empire considers all stories from all writers, regardless of experience or resume. We ask that you submit all stories as an RTF attachment to submissions(at)pulpempire.com.

Please mark all submissions to this anthology with the word “Modern Pulp” in the subject header.

Please also include a short third-person biography including publishing history and a picture if available.

The deadline for submissions to this anthology is March 15, 2012.