{"id":18324,"date":"2018-10-19T06:15:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:15:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tentaclii.wordpress.com\/?p=18324"},"modified":"2018-10-19T06:15:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-19T03:15:01","slug":"spicy-armadillo-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/spicy-armadillo-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicy Armadillo Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the excellence of Sam Moskowitz&#8217;s boots-on-the-ground <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/16\/virgil-finlay\/\">1964 biographical article on Virgil Finlay<\/a>, mentioned here in an earlier post, I went looking to see if he had collected more such articles on artists into a book. It seems not, but Archive.org has the 1974 reprint of his earlier <em><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/The_Immortal_Storm_A_History_of_Science_Fiction_Fandom_1954_Sam_Moskowitz_siPDF\/page\/n5\">Immortal Storm: A History of Science Fiction Fandom<\/a><\/em> (1954).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/storm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/storm.jpg?w=529\" alt=\"\" width=\"529\" height=\"399\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-18326\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Also noted, the last issue of <em>Spicy Armadillo Stories<\/em> #7 (August 1992), themed &#8220;How the Pulps Worked&#8221;.  Includes &#8220;Teaching Pulp Magazine Writing&#8221; by Sam Moskowitz.  Seems to be totally unavailable today, but a $3 Kindle edition might get some interest re: the growing interest in the pulps among business historians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spicy_armadillo_stories_199208_n7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/spicy_armadillo_stories_199208_n7.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"519\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18325\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a more recent collection on how the pulps worked, albeit only from the point of view of the writers and probably mostly talking about story mechanics. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2EymmWW\">The Penny-a-Word Brigade<\/a><\/em> (2017) is from the makers of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/2J9vHTW\">The Blood &#8216;n&#8217; Thunder Guide to Pulp Fiction<\/a><\/em> (2018, revised edition).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penny.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jurn.link\/tentaclii\/oldimages\/penny.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"240\" height=\"311\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-18528\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by the excellence of Sam Moskowitz&#8217;s boots-on-the-ground 1964 biographical article on Virgil Finlay, mentioned here in an earlier post, &hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/2018\/10\/19\/spicy-armadillo-stories\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-historical-context","category-scholarly-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/tentaclii\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}