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Digital Lifeline
by Elaine Marie Alphin
GENRE: Fantasy
AGES: 12 - Adult

AAA
Pest Control
by T. Branard Akers
GENRE: Fantasy
AGES: YA - Adult

Colonel Sellers
by Mark Twain
GENRE: Melodrama
AGES: YA - Adult

Cowboys
& Indians
by Gregory Urbach
GENRE: SciFi
AGES YA - Adult

Digital Lifeline
by Elaine Marie Alphin
GENRE: Fantasy
AGES: 12 - Adult

Ender's Game
by Orson Scott Card
GENRE: SciFi
AGES: 12 - Adult

Ghostwriters
by Elaine Marie Alphin
GENRE: Mystery
AGES: 10 - Adult

Goblin Problem
by Royce Buckingham
GENRE: Fantasy
AGES: 10 - Adult

The Great
Egress Caper
by Will Miller
GENRE: Mystery
AGES: 10 - Adult

The Neworld Papers: Below
by KB Shaw
GENRE: SciFi
AGES: YA - Adult

From the Shadows:
Separate Paths
by KB Shaw
GENRE: SciFi
AGES: 12 - Adult

From the Shadows:
Convergence
by KB Shaw
GENRE: SciFi
AGES: 12 - Adult

Wizard's Boy
by Bruce Coville
GENRE: Fantasy
AGES: 10 - Adult

Morph
by David Lubar
GENRE: Adventure
AGES: 12 - Adult

There's Nothing
Under the Bed
by Bruce Coville
GENRE: Horror
AGES: 10 - Adult

The Lieutenant's
Wife
by James H Watson, M.D.
GENRE: Mystery
AGES: YA - Adult

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The Value of The iPulp Fiction Library In the past, dime novels and other forms of pulp fiction provided cheap entertainment for young readers and inspired generations of great writers such as Bradbury, Burroughs, and Asimov. The iPulp Fiction Library brings back the tradition of the dime novel as a FREE online fiction magazine for readers 10 to adult. Research shows there is a growing reading gap between boys and girls. Studies indicate that one of the causes of this problem is the lack of material targeting the interests of young males. Schools simply don't recognize boy-oriented genre fiction as literature. (See "Why Johnny Won't Read" Washington Post, and "What Boys Should Read" The Chronicle of Higher Education.) Boys tend to read a wider number of genres over a broader range of topics than girls. They like escapism (science fiction, adventure, and fantasy) and humor more than fiction and poetry, and they like to collect series of books (Simpson, 1996; Smith & Wilhelm, 2002). An article on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) web site called "Reading Can Make You Smarter" sumarizes studies that suggest that it is not just what you read, but the amount you read that builds vocabulary skills. Comic books and graphic novels have value to developing reading skills. The iPulp Fiction Library fills the void between graphic literature and full-length novels with quality genre stories that will appeal to boys. If iPulp can turn just one young person on to the joys of reading or inspire one new author, it will have justified its existence. NOTE: iPulp pages are designed to make the online reading experience enjoyable and consistent in Safari, Firefox, and Explorer on MacOS X, Windows XP, and Vista. If you are on a Windows PC, your system may not be optimized for smooth text display. Click here to see if your PC text display is optimized.

2008 Author Lineup

In Alphabetical Order
Watch this list grow as we add titles to our 2008 slate.

Edgar Award Winner
Elaine Marie Alphin
Digital Lifeline
middle grade contemporary fantasy
[author website]

National Book Award Finalist
Kathleen Duey
Untitled iPulp Original
Western
[author website]

Gregory Urbach
Cowboys & Indians
YA SciFi
[author website]

Author of Demon Keeper
Royce Buckingham
Goblin Problems
middle grade fantasy
[author website]

YALSA Best Book Author
David Lubar
Morph / Feelings
middle grade adventure / YA horror
[author website]

IRA Children's Choice Winner
Bruce Coville
There's Nothing Under the Bed
middle grade horror
[author website]

Approved by the Conan-Doyle Estate
James H. Watson M.D.
Sherlock Holmes: The Adventure of
The Lieutenant's Wife
YA mystery

Author Quotes

What authors are saying about iPulp

"iPulp takes fast-paced fiction to the kids, where they live, onthe Internet. What a perfect idea. Home delivery. May it do for literacy what it did for pizza."

– Kathleen Duey, National Book Award Finalist
author of Skin Hunger

"With the whole world wallowing in pointless, plotless fiction, iPulp greets the reader like a breath of fresh adrenaline."

– David Lubar, Award-winning
author of Hidden Talents

"Like the good old days of Buck Rogers and Sam Spade, iPulp returns us to a time when reading was fun. It's great that writers and readers finally have a place to get together."

– Gregory Urbach, author of the
Waters of the Moon series

"Cheap short fiction - it's the lifeblood of literature."

– Orson Scott Card, Hugo Award-winning
author of Ender's Game

"I love the idea of iPulp. I cut my teeth as a reader on pulp fiction, the best of which has great storytelling energy. I'm all in favor of finding new ways to bring this kind of story to young readers."

– Bruce Coville, IRA Children's Choice Award-winning
author of The Monster's Ring

"The short story is practically a lost art, but it looks like we’ve found it at iPulp. Personally, I’m delighted, because I love writing short fiction, but the real winners here are the readers— our kids."

– Royce Buckingham, screenwriter and
author of Demonkeeper

"As soon as I discovered iPulp Fiction Library I wanted my stories to be part of it. What a terrific outlet for writers to share their stories with kids and teens who do their reading on the web."

– Elaine Marie Alphin, Edgar Award-winning
author of Counterfeit Son

iPulp Staff

Publisher
Keith B. Shaw

Managing Editor
Mary Moore

Director of Curriculum
Gillian Clark

Cover Artists
Dug Nation
Christen Shaw
Richard Strandberg

Reviewers
Vy Armour
Janice Corker
Jennifer Spray Doering
Carol Earle
Alicia Hancock
Kay Morris
Jennifer Olivier
Hugh Starkey

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