Great news reaches us at Fedora – the redoubtable John F Norris of Pretty Sinister Books and Michael Hudson have launched Raven’s Head Press, a new imprint devoted to weird and wonderful crime and adventure fiction. Their motto is ‘Reviving Pulp Fiction for a new Generation of Readers’ and I for one couldn’t be more excited.
They have published their first book, The Starkenden Quest (a review to appear here at Fedora very soon), available though Amazon, with more to come on paper and as e-publications. For updates, visit their website: http://ravensheadpress.com/
Sergio, this is good news and it is great that you are publicizing this. I am eager to see what authors they cover as they publish more books.
It sounds like a wonderful idea and John knows the area so well that it is bound to provide some really unexpected content – very exciting!
Thanks so much for sharing, Sergio! This is great news. :-)
Thanks Margot – always glad to share good news
It’s always exciting news when cool old stuff gets re-released. I look forward to the review.
It’s been round the blog a few times now (but then I’m always late to the party) – but almost in the words on Universal Studios, good news is worth repeating!
Ah shucks! Thanks for the plug, Sergio. Wait till you see the second book! It’s even more fantastic than this one. I’ll be reviewing that one in the coming months but it will take about six months for production to get it out to you lovely readers. It’s just the two of us slowly cranking these out. And there are lots and lots of emails going out to acquire rights & permissions. Oh, the waiting for those replies…
Well, you’ll be glad to know that the suspense is killing me John – thanks!
Count me in as another who is excited to see the arrival of a publisher committed to putting this kind of genre fiction out there.
I really hope it’s a great big success as there is so much rich material deserving of a second airing.
Agreed.
I hope to review their first book sometime in November as it’s in the post but not yet in my mitts (or should that be, midst?)
Thank you for sharing! Very excited at this news, and the first book sounds excellent.
Thanks chum – omens are good!
A lot of similarities to Hard Case Crime books—website design, text, etc. Mind you, that’s not a bad thing—I’m a huge HCC fan. Thanks for the info, Sergio!
My pleasure Maja – these ones are going to be much more whodunits rather than thrillers or often dipping in the realm of weird adventure I suspect – will review the first one as soon as it arives!
Looking forward to reading your review! As for the similarities, I guess I was thinking more about the similarity in appearance of the two websites (e.g. compare the text on their respective “Contact” pages)…..Are the two companies related to each other?
Oh, gotcha – as far as I know they have absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with each other – probably using the same software to generate the website though (be Jamie would know!) – should be good though!
Well *that* explains it, then! I know so little about computer-related things… ;)
Having said that Maja, obviously there are several bijou imprints speacialising in forgotten crime novels such as Stark House Press, Rue Morgue and Ramble House so there is plenty of choice but they do need to work on keeping their brands nice and distinctive!
I was unaware of this until today and I have asked Michael Hudson to remove the page. I am planning to replace it with our own policies written in my own words.
Thanks for the update John – and very glad to say that your first offering just came through in the post today – looks great.
The last thing I want is more vintage books! I was quite contented reading a few books all by myself and not writing about them before I entered the tentacled world of blogs. Too late… Thanks for this bit of news, Sergio. John always has some fascinating books up his sleeve.
I know, too little time, too many books – how great os that? And thank goodness for john, a man who truly knows what he’s talking about – not enough those about these days!