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Parisian Mermaids

corsair firt proof coverSo,let’s see… the new Corsair story is about to be published, and the first one is of course already available, in both paperback and ebook, and it’s called Chasing the Mermaid.

So, why don’t to something special, for this Friday, prompts and all?
Why not a good gallery of mermaids?

Curiously enough, La Vie Parisienne, the epitome of the girly, “French” magazine from the early 20th century, did show a certain obsession for mermaids.
And considering the magazine had some great artists on its bankroll, the following images are all pretty racy, they are often funny, and a few of them are absolutely gorgeous.

… and they might inspire a story or four.

Enjoy!

 


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Show some pulp love for Elisa Hill

01-Lost-Continent_ebook-640x1024I’m answering a request for help.
New pulp author Percival Constantine posted a piece on his blog, titled “Read this if you want more Myth Hunter”, and read it I did, because I do want more Myth Hunter.

For the uninitiated, Myth Hunter is a series of thriller/fantasy novels focusing on the adventures of Elisa Hill, a treasure hunter and adventuress which is sort of a hipper, cooler Lara Croft, and whose targets are usually myth-related artifacts.
It gets more complicated than that – as the series is set in a conspiracy-filled world in which “Myth Hunters” are actually a whole group of individuals, sometimes at odds with each other. Continue reading →


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The return of Armless O’Neil

InterludeAccording to his obituary

Mr. [Dan] Cushman wrote books set in the South Pacific, the Congo and the Yukon, and he drew on his colorful life for much of his fiction. He worked as a cowboy, a printer, a prospector, a geologist’s assistant, an advertising writer and a radio announcer.

One of Dan Cushman characters was called Armless O’Neil, and was a guy with a hook for a hand, that plied his trade – as mercenary and an adventurer – in Dark Africa. Continue reading →


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Honorary Men

Today is the International Women’s Day, a day devoted to the celebration and promotion of female equality.
Which is both good and sad, if you think about it, because it’s a good thing, but we shouldn’t need it, not anymore.

But we know how things are going, and there’s still a lot of people that form an opinion on other human beings based on their reproductive role.
Sad losers.

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And as I was thinking about what to write and how to write it for this post, I was reminded of a very fine comic, written by Barbara Hambly and called Anne Steelyard. Continue reading →