HEIDI RUBY MILLER

NEWSLETTER The second edition of our combined newsletter Small Space Big Life, the same name as our YouTube channel , is in in-boxes now. In case you missed the first edition, you can find it here: https://mailchi.mp/a94cd3a7b991/small-space-big-life-winter-2019 We were so busy this spring that we had to skip over that edition so here's everything from over the past few months all at once. Find out how Jason's keynote went at the Pennwriter's Conference, about Heidi's interview on a PBS documentary and her new contracts, as well as where our most recent travels took us. And, as always, check out what we've been reading, a giveaway, and our upcoming events. We'd love to see you at some! There is also a poem from me and a flash piece from Jason. Enjoy. READ THE REST HERE. AND SUBSCRIBE HERE.

ARTICLES My article "New Pulp" is in the July 2019 issue of The Writer magazine. It is based on a class I taught in Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction MFA program and features quotes from Matt Betts , Maurice Broaddus , Christopher Paul Carey , Mike Chomko , John Edward Lawson , and Lee Murray about the resurgence of this popular fiction genre. Here's an excerpt: Pulp fiction is having a moment. And I don’t mean the Tarantino movie from the ‘90s – that was having a moment since Jules gave away his wallet. I’m talking about the adventure stories of old with those provocative covers and dime-store price tags that are enjoying a renaissance thanks to the subgenre “new pulp.” It’s clear that to understand new pulp, we need to know a little about “old” pulp. The term comes from the paper it was printed on – that cheap, thin stuff that began to disintegrate as soon as you cracked open the cover. Pulp was popular as magazines, novels, and novellas dur...

FROM THE PULPFEST WEBSITE BY WILLIAM PATRICK MAYNARD : PulpFest is proud that over 30 popular fiction writers will be attending our 2019 convention. “Back in the day,” the authors who labored for the rough paper industry liked to call themselves scribes, word-slingers, penny-a-worders, and, perhaps the most favored term of all, fictioneers. Join PulpFest as we celebrate today’s fictioneers — the authors writing today’s pulp fiction! On Friday, August 16, at 11 AM, join five writers from Raw Dog Screaming Press for a Rapid-Fire Read and Sweet Sixteen Celebration. It will be hosted by publisher Jennifer Barnes . Raw Dog Screaming Press has carved a niche for themselves as the specialty house for offbeat, dark, deviant, thought-provoking fiction. They were the recipient of the 2018 Horror Writers Association Specialty Press Award for outstanding horror, dark fantasy, and weird fiction. Their critically acclaimed publications are attracting mainstream attention with Ridley Scot...

DOCUMENTARIES I was honored to discuss pulp artist Gloria Stoll Karn on the documentary VISIBLE produced by Pittsburgh's PBS station WQED . Below are a few photos from the filming and video of the clip about Gloria and the entire documentary , which highlights the stories of five women artists in Pittsburgh. Thanks to Mike Chomko , Director of PulpFest and producers Anne Casper and Andrew Holman for this opportunity to contribute to such a lovely project. You'll notice my segment was filmed at Seton Hill University , of course. GLORIA STOLL KARN CLIP FULL DOCUMENTARY

NEWS Since all the special edition hardcovers of Man of War are almost sold out, Meteor House has the paperback on sale at $5 off for the next two weeks and they've released the e-book on Kindle and Nook !

VIDEOS I interviewed Chuck Welch at PulpFest in Pittsburgh about why he likes Doc Savage.

EVENTS Registration for the 32nd Annual Pennwriters Conference in Pittsburgh is now open: http://bit.ly/pennwriters2019 . KEYNOTE SPEAKERS JESSICA STRAWSER AND JASON JACK MILLER Thursday Pre-Conference Intensive Faculty Timons Esaias - The Crafts of Fiction: The Nuts, the Bolts, and Hoisting the Girders into Place Deborah Riley-Magnus - Author Marketing Master Class Coroner Lyell P. Cook - Coroners: Their history, What they do, What they see Friday Networking Luncheon Speaker JD Dunbar - Listen for the Lyrics Friday Published Penns Luncheon Speaker Siobhan Vivian - Your Next Big Idea: Developing and Heightening the Plot of Your WIP Agents, Editors, Publisher Kaitlyn Johnson, agent, Corvisiero Literacy Agency Amy Bishop, Agent – Dystel, Goderich & Bourret LLC Bibi Lewis, Agent – Ethan Ellenberg Literary Agency Danielle Dieterich, Editor – G. P. Putnam’s Sons, a division of Penguin Random House Rhonda Penders – The Wild Rose Press 32nd Annual Pennwriters Confe...