Pulpflakes Blog: The Secrets Of The Pulps

For over five decades, the pulp magazines entertained people all over the world. Discover the people behind them; the authors, editors, illustrators and their stories. Look behind the scenes and learn the secrets of storytelling.

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  • Simple, Fast search of the FictionMags Index

    Simple, fast search of the FictionMags Index. It’s finally here. https://pulpflakes.com/fmisearch/ The FictionMags Index (FMI) is the biggest online index of English language fiction published in periodicals. Search the FMI by author or artist name, magazine title or look for a specific issue by date or issue number. Tips and tricks While search tolerates partial……

  • Secrets of a Fast Fiction Factory from T. T. Flynn

    This article on then Santa-Fe resident author T. T. Flynn appeared in a local newspaper in 1929. Ted Flynn’s fiction factory has taken on new aspects of a prosperous growing industry with the addition of an Ediphone to Ted’s accessories for turning out quick copy to supply the demands of a string of some pulp……

  • Robert O. Erisman, pulp editor: Man of Mystery, Love and many others

    This profile of Robert O. Erisman appeared in 1939, a year after he became a pulp editor at Martin Goodman’s Magazine Management. Erisman, thought to be a Goodman relative, also contributed scripts to Goodman’s early comics: Daring Mystery and Mystic. Editor of 29 pulps prefers melodrama to the correct prose he used to write Robert……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 4 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 3 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. Grass, brush and trees had been steadily drying out during the hot months of July and August, needing only a spark to transform the peace­ful land into a roaring furnace. Then fires were reported on distant moun­tains. Day by……

  • Homesteading in the 1920s: part 3 by Cherry Wilson

    Part 3 of a personal account of homesteading in the 1920s by western author Cherry Wilson. But to go back to those first glo­rious days of Spring, after the event­ful Winter; when the very air made one’s head light. The call of the out­door was so strong that while snow still lay in canyon pockets……