Just what the title says, my collection of Beulah Poynter stories, As a Sealed Book: Five Mysteries From the Pulp Era is finally available for purchase! Get it in ebook or paperback here! Share, tell your friends, leave a review, etc.! Most of all, though, please enjoy it! Due to varying public domain laws, it unfortunately isn’t available worldwide, but it is available in the United States (obviously), Canada, the UK, and Australia. (I’ll have to research the laws of other countries to see if I can make it available elsewhere, but for now, I figure the major English markets are a good place to start.)
I restrained myself from posting about it here as often as I truly wanted to (you’re welcome 😅), but man, what a ride. I basically had everything done a mere couple days after my last update, but then I had to wait for paperback proofs (ended up having to order two, because the first had a printing issue related to how I’d saved the file), then I had to wait for the approval process, and then I realized the ebook had a formatting problem (weird spacing in first paragraphs, which I just fixed today). I learned a lot and will definitely be applying it to future endeavors, because—oh, yeah—I’ll for sure be compiling more of these. Next up will be another Beulah Poynter collection; unlike the standalone stories of As a Sealed Book, it’ll be five loosely-connected pieces that, together, function as proto-police procedurals (recurring characters, but the individual focus shifts with each installment). After that, I have a couple other ideas, and I’d frankly love to get a romance anthology together, but I…uh…need to hunt down more love pulps that are officially in the public domain. I have a couple at this point (and some have been digitized), but they’re a bit scarcer than later issues, and their prices tend to be unreasaonably inflated. :/ Still, I’m very excited by the prospect of making some of these stories, particularly the romance ones, more widely available!
Back to Beulah Poynter, at the beginning of all this, upon realizing I had too much material for just one book, the plan was to come out with the standalone collection (As a Sealed Book) around the first of May, and then the proto-procedurals (currently unnamed) around the first of June. Well, that obviously didn’t happen, and other life things will see me pretty busy for the next month or so, so we’ll see how things pan out. The process will go much more smoothly from now on, since I actually know what the hell I’m doing to some extent, but I wouldn’t be surprised if I don’t get to it until August or maybe even early September.
In the meantime, maybe I can get around to reading some of what I’ve picked up over the past two months (I have two more Hortense McRaven stories, for instance!—TWO!), or else get around to finishing reviews I started and then got distracted from, oops.
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