You can’t hide from magic when it’s in your blood … When Allaigna was seven she almost sang her baby brother to sleep — forever. She may be heir to neither her mother’s titles nor her secrets, but she has inherited her grandmother’s dangerous talent for singing music into magic. As her education proceeds from nursery to weapons ground to the rank of royal page, it becomes increasingly hard to keep her heritage and abilities hidden. Secrets, it seems, are stock-in-trade for her family, and as Allaigna works to keep her own, she uncovers two that will affect both her life and the unstable peace of the Ilmar nations. One is the fate of her grandmother, who married a prince, turning the gift of the Sight into a double-edged weapon of state. The other is the truth behind her mother’s two-week disappearance following an ambush by outlaws en route to her wedding. As she discovers who she is, Allaigna must decide what to become: the skilled courtier her mother wants her to be, the political chess piece her father bargained on, or the hero her grandmother foresaw. Allaigna’s Song: Overture is a love story, a family saga, and a coming-of-age novel that braids together the stories of daughter, mother, and grandmother into a rich and deftly woven narrative. Readers are saying “Beautiful writing and gripping storytelling throughout.” “Allaigna, Lauresa, and Irdaign are tough, flawed, and appealing heroines.” “Great tension, big world, perfect pacing, intriguing politics and lovely magic.” “Magically unputdownable!”

Allaigna's Song: Overture (Volume 1)

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Landels, J M

Fantasy

Pulp Literature Press

Travel from the daily commute to out of this world with Genni Gunn, Sophie Panzer, and Jessica Barksdale; take the trip from dead to living and back again in ‘We Come Back Different’ by AJ Odasso and ‘Bone Dry’ by Roy Gray and Ben Baldwin; see differently with poetry by Susan Alexander and Angela Rebrec; enjoy the return of Stella Ryman and Allaigna as well as your quarterly shot of short sharp fiction from Susan Pieters. All this plus the winners of the Raven Short Story Contest and the SiWC Storytellers’ Award.

Pulp Literature Spring 2018: Issue 18

Literature & Fiction

Landels, JM

Anastasiou, Mel

Barker, Michelle

Davis, Roy

Gunn, Genni

Rebrec, Angela

Craven, Kerry

Pieters, Susan

Literary

The Labours of Mrs Stella Ryman: Further Fairmount Manor Mysteries (The Fairmount Manor Mysteries)

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Mystery

What the Wind Brings

Out of the fires of Caribbean revolution, shipwrecked onto the shores and jungles of Ecuador, a slave, a captive, and a shaman fight Inquisition-era Spain for freedom. In times like these, when power spends blood like pennies, what chance do these disparate underdogs have to create an independent nation? 
Chance, no. Intelligence, daring, tactics, and magic, yes.

Hughes, Matthew

Genre Fiction

Out of the fires of Caribbean revolution, shipwrecked onto the shores and jungles of Ecuador, a slave, a captive, and a shaman fight Inquisition-era Spain for freedom. In times like these, when power spends blood like pennies, what chance do these disparate underdogs have to create an independent nation? Chance, no. Intelligence, daring, tactics, and magic, yes.

Matthew Hughes

Featured author Kelly Robson shows us that wine making is a labour of love, and sometimes hate, in 'Good for Grapes'.Matthew Hughes's magnum opus, What the Wind Brings, debuts aboard the Spanish galleon La Virgen, with an epic struggle brewing on the horizon.Stella Ryman is ready for new adventures in Stella Ryman and the Locked Room Mystery by Mel Anastasiou, while Allaigna must make hasty goodbyes in the final chapter of Allaigna's Song: Aria by JM Landels.It's a dog-eat-dog world -- or wolf-eat-dog world -- in Christian Walter's 'Wolf, Dog, Sun', and Zo Johnson reminds us to take stock of everyday miracles in 'Inherited Love of Unexplainable Things'.Take a draught of heady poetry from Casey Reiland, Raluca Balasa, and Alison Braid.Lena Mahmoud breathes new life into an old Arabian folk tale with 'The Thieving Pot', and Josephine Greenland dissects a Thai myth in the Bumblebee Contest winner, 'Wife Giver'.Deborah L Davitt's protagonists hold out for as long as they can in 'On the Sixth Day'.Come and get the good stuff in Susan Pieters's 'Black Market', and see the dark(er) side of the financial district in Lola Street's 'Wall Street at Night' illustrated by Chaille Stovall.We have the two runners-up of the Surrey International Writers' Conference Storyteller Contest in this issue: 'Biophilia' shows us there's hope in Margot Spronk's post-apocalyptic world, but not necessarily for humans; while Deepthi Atukorala takes us down an emotional rabbit hole with 'White Rabbit'.Great reads for the price of a beer

Pulp Literature Summer 2019: Issue 23

Robson, Kelly

Ridge, Lola

WALTER, CHRISTIAN

Davitt, Deborah L.

Mahmoud, Lena

United States

Allaigna's Song: Chorale

In this Issue 
It’s turtles all the way down with Herman Lau’s evocative cover, beneath which we have a brand new Man in the Long Black Coat story by JJ Lee. Dive into debate, a shadowy landscape, and the laundry pile with stories from Mitchell Shanklin, Megan W Shaw, and Kimberley Aslett. Experience the relativity of time with Lorina Stephens, Douglas Smith, and Michelle Barker. JM Landels returns us to the streets of Paris in The Shepherdess, and Mel Anastasiou wets our feet in Howe Sound with Pretty Lies.

Pulp Literature Spring 2022: Issue 34

Smith, Douglas

Lee, JJ

Stephens, Lorina

Nancy, Hurricane

Shanklin, Mitchell

Kuhlmann, Laura

Van Didden, Hannah

Under the wise gaze of 'The Butterfly Witch' by Melissa Mary Duncan, this issue promises at least two sides to every story. Siblings work through past hurts and begin new journeys in 'Old Gifts' by feature author James Sallis and 'Can-on-a-String' by Alex Kitt. Meanwhile, zombies do double duty in 'Ambience' by Jason P Burnham and 'Caught Dead' by Shawn L Bird. We navigate new lands with Pete Barnstrom in 'Oeufs Dangereux' and Cheryl Skory Suma in 'Adrift off the Shore of Alzheimer Island'. And Anna Zumbro in 'The Dump 'Em Dog' and Mikael Lopez and Enrico Orlandi in 'Forgive My Delay' remind us that, no matter the world in which we live, breaking up is hard to do. Next, triple your literary delight with historical fiction: 'The Shepherdess: Grandmère Paris' by JM Landels, 'Pretty Lies: I Can See for Miles' by Mel Anastasiou, and 'Once Upon a Time in Camelot' by GD Litke. Three's the charm for poetry too, with our Magpie Award winners Cara Waterfall's 'griefbody' and 'Harvest' and Kevin Spenst's 'BigGermanDialectWordClankinglyInsertedHere!'.

Pulp Literature Autumn 2022: Issue 36

Bird, Shawn L.

Sallis,James

Barnstrom, Pete

Kitt, Alex

Zumbro, Anna

Burnham, Jason P

Lopez, Mikael

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