The Dame, The Doctor, and The Device

A Rip Through Time: The Dame, The Doctor, and The Device reboot is live with a new cover, edit, and flash piece. To celebrate the return of everyone's favorite cigar-chomping, ass-kicking time cop, BEAT to a PULP is offering it as a free ebook for the next five days. Its also available in a beautiful paperback edition that highlights Chuck Regan's marvelous art work.

What I'm Working On: Simon Rip

The Simon Rip reboot ... A Rip Through Time #1: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device ... with a fresh edit and a bonus short piece.

Now Available: A Rip Through Time #2: In The Clear, Black Fields Of Night

The new Simon Rip novella by Chad Eagleton is out now. And in case you missed them, the first series of stories can be found here.

Book description: In his first adventure, Simon Rip pursued Dr. Robert Berlin from the Ice Age to the end of time to retrieve the most powerful invention the world has ever known, the Baryon Core. Now, with his employer's schemes to control all of time revealed, Rip travels across the centuries assembling a team to stop The Company once and for all. With the assistance of Ada Lovelace, Allegra Byron, John Whiteside Parsons, and a mysterious young boy imprisoned in a medieval monastery, the daring time-cop takes the fight directly to The Company. He'll trace the origins of the conspiracy to the darkest heart of World War II, uncover the mastermind, and discover the secrets of his own past.

A Rip Through Time Update

A RIP THROUGH TIME is now available at Amazon for $0.99.

Dr. Robert Berlin has created The Baryon Core, a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe. Berlin swipes his own creation from The Company and disappears into history. The Company's time-cop Simon Rip and the sexy, brilliant Dr. Serena Ludwig join together to track Berlin and return the device. Their pursuit will take them back to the ice age and forward to the end of time.

A Rip through Time follows the time-cop's travels in a series of five short stories written by several of today's top pulp writers. Chris F. Holm opens the collection with the fast-paced "The Dame, the Doctor and the Device." Charles A. Gramlich's "Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls" and Garnett Elliott's "Chaos in the Stream" breath new life into the time travel story. Bringing the saga to a gripping conclusion in "Darkling in the Eternal Space" is Chad Eagleton, who then takes it a step further with a mesmerizing coda, "The Final Painting of Hawley Exton." And for all the time-traveling enthusiasts, Ron Scheer provides an insightful essay, "Are We Then Yet," which explores the mechanics of time travel in popular fiction.

A Rip Through Time

Charles Gramlich reviews A RIP THROUGH TIME and MILES TO LITTLE RIDGE. Note: TIME is now available at Barnes & Noble.

Rough Edges Reviews...

James Reasoner was kind enough to review the new BEAT to a PULP eBook. What did he think? Click here.

Charles Gramlich on Simon Rip

Time Travel and Sword and Planet Action.

Available: A RIP THROUGH TIME

Dr. Robert Berlin has created The Baryon Core, a powerful device with the ability to predict the future and retrodict the past by tracking the position and vector of every particle in the universe. Berlin swipes his own creation from The Company and disappears into history. The Company's time-cop Simon Rip and the sexy, brilliant Dr. Serena Ludwig join together to track Berlin and return the device. Their pursuit will take them back to the ice age and forward to the end of time.

A Rip through Time follows the time-cop's travels in a series of five short stories written by several of today's top pulp writers. Chris F. Holm opens the collection with the fast-paced "The Dame, the Doctor and the Device." Charles A. Gramlich's "Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls" and Garnett Elliott's "Chaos in the Stream" breath new life into the time travel story. Bringing the saga to a gripping conclusion in "Darkling in the Eternal Space" is Chad Eagleton, who then takes it a step further with a mesmerizing coda, "The Final Painting of Hawley Exton." And for all the time-traveling enthusiasts, Ron Scheer provides an insightful essay, "Are We Then Yet," which explores the mechanics of time travel in popular fiction.

A RIP THROUGH TIME is now available at Smashwords for $0.99.

Cathode Angel On...

Things To Come.

A Rip Through Time eBook

Here's the cover for the soon-to-be-released eBook A RIP THROUGH TIME, which has been over a year in the making. The eBook will combine four edge-of-your-seat tales previously presented as a BEAT to a PULP Weekly Punch along with a brand new title, "The Last Painting of Hawley Exton" by Chad Eagleton. The other top writers in this scintillating collection are Chris F. Holm, Charles A. Gramlich, Garnett Elliott, and an essay on time travel in the movies and books by Ron Scheer.

Don't be surprised when the series time cop shows up again. Mr. Eagleton is putting the finishing touches on a Simon Rip novella to hit your local cyber store in early 2012.

In the meantime, the eBook A RIP THROUGH TIME will be released in a couple of weeks at the very reasonable price of $0.99!

Chad Eagleton...

Chad Eagleton's thoughts on writing the fourth Simon Rip adventure.

Simon Rip Links

Chris Holm: Rip's Saga Continues | Death by Killing: Simon Rip's Back.

BEAT to a PULP #109: A Rip through Time: Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls by Charles A. Gramlich

A Note on Simon Rip’s Return.

I always have gargantuan plans when it comes to the BEAT to a PULP webzine, the print anthologies, or the Simon Rip eBook I had previously announced. Sometimes I quite literally wake up in the middle of the night and scribble something to find in the morning I’d written, “Get S. King for next week’s BTAP story.” Yeah, right. Eyes bigger than stomach syndrome more often than not. Still I don’t believe in doing anything half way and that is the reason I am holding off on a Simon Rip eBook.

With Rip, I had imagined an illustrated electronic book (visions of Sydney Paget danced before my eyes) but I couldn’t settle on an illustrator who was an ideal fit. Plus I felt three stories were too few to charge readers even at the Kindle-friendly price of ninety-nine cents.

So I will continue to work on bringing those elements together, but, in the meantime, Charles Gramlich brilliantly continues where Chris F. Holm’s impressive Rip debut had left us with Simon Rip on the run and the future of the world at stake. Here is the thrilling return of everyone’s favorite cigar-chomping time cop in “A Rip through Time: Battles, Broadswords, and Bad Girls.”

Vote Holm!

Chris F. Holm: "A Rip Through Time" on P&E's Reader Poll!

Review: A RIP THROUGH TIME:THE DAME, THE DOCTOR, AND THE DEVICE

Chris Rhatigan over at the top Death by Killing has a review of the first installment of BEAT to a PULP's Simon Rip saga.

Mr. Holm's Simon Rip is a Smash Hit!

I want to congratulate Chris F. Holm on our biggest success to date at BEAT to a PULP. I'm not one to normally eye statistics very closely. The reason being it is quality that matters and I would continue BTAP even if one trusty reader showed up because, well, that's just me. However, it is hard to ignore the number of unique visitors from around the world that are continuing to read A RIP THROUGH TIME: THE DAME, THE DOCTOR, AND THE DEVICE.

Thanks, Chris for delivering a top read. And thanks to BTAP fans from:

US, UK, Australia, Canada, China, Germany, Brazil, Japan, Austria, Poland, India, Netherlands, Russia, Vietnam, Sweden, France, Ukraine, Singapore, Spain, New Zealand, Italy, Romania, Israel, Argentina, South Korea, Belize, Montenegro, Togo, Cameroon, Portugal, Egypt, Taiwan, and Turkey.

Links, Links

My buddy Keith Rawson has some really awesome things to say about A RIP THROUGH TIME ... Likewise my amigo, David Barber, on the other side of the pond offers his own thoughts on Simon Rip ... And Chris Rhatigan over at Death By Killing reviews my short story "The Sins of Maynard Shipley" that appears in the current issue of NEEDLE.

More A RIP THROUGH TIME

Gary Dobbs at The Tainted Archive talks about A RIP THROUGH TIME here.

Also, a few folks have mentioned having a problem leaving a comment. If you are having trouble, please e-mail me your response at paladin-1@hotmail.com and I will post it.

Flash Gordon. Han Solo. Buck Rogers. John Carter. Indiana Jones.

Chris F. Holm Talks About Simon Rip.

BTAP #90: A Rip Through Time: The Dame, The Doctor, and the Device by Chris F. Holm

I'm super thrilled about this week's offering at BEAT to a PULP that requires a little back story revolving around TIME TRAVELERS NEVER DIE. Thanks to reviews by Randy Johnson and James Reasoner, I picked up Time Travelers and fell under the spell once again with the concept of jumping through centuries. It got the gears in my tiny brain whirling and Simon Rip was born.

Rip is a time cop who is sent back through the realms in search of the world's first time voyager, Dr. Berlin. I wanted straightforward pulp. Fun adventure not weighed down in The Grandfather Paradox and I wanted plot ideas born not of my limited noodle. Enter Chris F. Holm, Charles Gramlich and Matthew P. Mayo. Each one of these talented writers brought so much more to the table than I could have hoped for. Mr. Gramlich and Mr. Mayo's concluding pieces will be coming up later this year in BTAP's first ever eBook. (With a sharp essay on time travel by Ron Scheer.)

For the opening installment, Mr. Holm has done a phenomenal job in setting up the story especially since I handicapped him in a big way confining him to a lower word count for online readers. But because he is such a gifted storyteller he pulled it off more than admirably. What am I talking about? Well, folks, here it is, A Rip through Time: The Dame, the Doctor, and the Device. Please leave a comment and let us know what you think.