Don't Miss JJ Lee on the Pulp Lit Pulpit!

Issue 2 cover small — Issue 2, Spring 2014

Catch Episode 6 Before It’s Too Late!

This is your last chance to listen to Episode 6: Worldbuilding, and writing anywhere, anytime, with JJ Lee of the Pulp Lit Pulpit before it disappears into the digital abyss for good! Ah, the sweet confines of the digital world.

Our editors discuss the do’s and don’ts of world building and offer some tips on how to situate your reader in an unfamiliar setting without losing them in the introduction, intricacies, or intrigue of your fantasy realm. (Definitely not speaking from personal experience here.)

Also in Episode 6 you can look forward to the first part of JJ Lee’s outstanding interview. JJ was one of the first authors we asked for a story for Pulp Lit and he gave ‘Built to Love’ (Pulp Literature Issue 2) featuring killer teddy bears. (Plus he painted a cover to go with it!) Since then he painted another cover for Issue 7 to go with Robert J Sawyer’s ‘Fallen Angel’, and we’ve published two of JJ’s ‘Man in the Long Black Coat’ stories in Issue 8 and Issue 24.

JJ is currently the non-fiction mentor at Simon Fraser University’s Writer’s Studio and his book The Measure of a Man: The Story of a Father, a Son, and a Suit was shortlisted for the 2011 Governor-General’s Literary Award for Non-Fiction, the 2012 Charles Taylor Prize for Non-Fiction, the 2012 BC Book Prizes Hubert Evans Prize for Non-Fiction, and the 2012 Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize. You can learn more about what JJ is up to on his Twitter and on his website.

Be sure not to miss JM Landels reading from Allaigna’s Song: Overture where Allaigna is forced to recover quickly from her first ever hangover, for in this episode she meets not one, but two new tutors. Also in this episode, Mel Anastasiou reads from Stella Ryman and the Fairmount Manor Mysteries where Stella’s favorite caregiver stands accused of theft by none other than the dragon.

Your host,

Sam Olson