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In the modern day hills of the Ozark Mountains, lives a mid-twenties moonshiner and all around slacker named Waylon Drake (his friends call him Bert). At least that's how the world of humans knows him, but to the supernatural world he is something else entirely. Bert is a wizard that, under the careful scrutiny of the Hand of Magic, works as a low wage mercenary to make ends meet. Living as a wizard in a human world has become rather stagnant for Bert. But when a series of dark supernatural forces start showing up and threaten to harm him and everyone he cares about, he is forced on a mission to attempt to find a mysterious object that no one seems to know anything about. Wielding his wizard staff and a talking sword, the charismatic Bert must face off against hordes of wizards, vampires, were-creatures, and other powerful entities. In a high paced fantasy thrill ride, packed with action, humor, and even a little romance, can the Moonshine Wizard come out on top?

Love makes The World Go 'Round... Until it Kills You. Pro Se Productions, a leader in New Pulp Fiction, presents a Romance collection like no other- TO LOVE AND DIE!Romance has endured for centuries as the most popular genre in entertainment, even in the era of Classic Pulp! Pro Se Productions harkens back to Love with a Razor's Edge in TO LOVE AND DIE. Three stories that look at the blessed curse that has plagued men and women literally since time began through a Pulp prism. Authors Mark Bousquet, Bonnie J. Sterling, and Phillip Drayer Duncan put their hearts on the line with three tales of Lust, Passion, Love, Hate, and more. Love is hard. Find out just how hard in the first Romance collection from Pro Se Productions- TO LOVE AND DIE.Featuring one of three stunning covers done for this collection by Pulp Artist Adam Shaw!

For more than half a century, James D. Hart's The Oxford Companion to American Literature has been an unparalleled guide to America's literary culture, providing one of the finest resources to this country's rich history of great writers. Now this acclaimed work has been completely revised and updated to reflect current developments in the world of American letters.For the sixth edition, editors James D. Hart and Phillip Leininger have updated the Companion in light of what has happened in American literature since 1982. To this end, they have revised the entries on such established authors as Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, and Joyce Carol Oates, and they have added more than 180 new entries on novelists (T. Coraghessan Boyle, Tim O'Brien, Louise Erdrich, Don De Lillo), poets (Rita Dove, Weldon Kees), playwrights (Wendy Wasserstein, August Wilson), popular writers (Stephen King, Louis L'Amour), historians (James M. McPherson, David Herbert Donald, William Manchester), naturalists (Aldo Leopold, Edward Abbey), and literary critics (Camille Paglia, Richard Ellmann). In addition, the Companion boasts more women's, African-American, and ethnic voices, with new entries on such luminaries as Charlotte Perkins Gilman, M.F.K. Fisher, William Least Heat-Moon, Ursula Le Guin, and Oscar Hijuelos, among many others.These additions represent only some of the revisions for the new edition. Of course, the basic qualities of the Companion that readers have grown to know and love over the years are as superb as ever. With over 5,000 total entries, The Oxford Companion to American Literature reflects a dynamic balance between past and contemporary literature, surveying virtually every aspect of our national literature, from the Pulitzer Prize to pulp fiction, and from Walt Whitman to William F. Buckley, Jr. There are over 2,000 biographical profiles of important American authors (with information regarding their styles, subjects, and major works) and influential foreign writers as well as other figures who have been important in the nation's social and cultural history. There are more than 1,100 full summaries of important American novels, stories, essays, poems (with verse form noted), plays, biographies and autobiographies, tracts, narratives, and histories. The new edition provides historical background and astute commentary on literary schools and movements, literary awards, magazines, newspapers, and a wide variety of other matters directly related to writing in America. Finally, the book is thoroughly cross-referenced and features an extensive and fully updated index of literary and social history.Ranging from Captain John Smith to John Updike, and from Anne Bradstreet to Anne Rice, the sixth edition of The Oxford Companion to American Literature is up to date, accurate, and comprehensive, a delight for both the casual browser and the serious student.

"Phillip Drayer Duncan is not to be missed." -- J.H. Fleming, The Queen of Moon and ShadowSo, there I was...just minding my own business and having a drink at a local watering hole, when this strange woman approaches me, begging for help.I've never seen this woman in my life. I have no idea who she is.If she's to be believed, she doesn't know who she is, either. Nor does she know where she came from, or exactly why it is she needs my help.She sure as heck knows who I am, though. She knows that I'm the Blade Mage.It only gets weirder.Before I can figure out what to do, the shadows come to life and attack. It isn't me they want, but this strange woman.My every instinct screams that I should run away. But...I am the Blade Mage.I've no choice but to help, but there are powers after this woman that I am helpless to stand against. It doesn't look like I'll be the Blade Mage for long."The Blade Mage delivers big-muscled magic and high octane thrills." -- Gary Phillips, Matthew Henson and the Ice temple of Harlem

"Add Duncan to the short list."-- Kristofer Upjohn, Horror is ArtBefore he was the Moonshine Wizard...What really happened between Bert and the dark wizard, Senechal? How did Bert gain his infamy? And where'd he pick up the ever-sarcastic talking sword, Sharp? What event forged his animosity toward Carter?Live the stories alongside Bert in this prequel collection to the novel, Moonshine Wizard.Featuring: "First Job""The Ogre & The Primates""A Sword Named Sharp""Hunting One Like Us""The Monster Beneath the Bed""The Hunt for the Dark Wizard""Witty, action-packed, and never one to shy away from the unexpected. Phillip Drayer Duncan is not to be missed."-- J.H. Fleming, The Queen of Moon and Shadow

The Anthology For When The Good Guys aren't Good Enough is here! BLACK FEDORA from Pro Se Productions throws the spotlight on those in the shadows, the other half of every great story- The Villain. Welcome to the dark side. Within this book you will find stories where the hero is the villain and one person's crime is another person's glory. Get ready to step out of the light and take a tour of various underworlds with three tales that give us a look at what secrets lurk beneath the BLACK FEDORA. This exciting anthology features tales by B. C. Bell, Phillip Drayer Duncan, and Kevin Paul Shaw Broden and a stunning cover by the best Pulp Artist today, Douglas Klauba! Edited by Brad Mengel and Mark Beaulieu with cover design and print formatting by Sean Ali and Ebook formatting by Russ Anderson, BLACK FEDORA is so good it's criminal. From Pro Se Productions, the leader in cutting edge New Pulp and Genre Fiction

Phillip Lee Duncan's superb poetry is the perfect companion piece to the cinematic work of Dusan Makavejev & Co., the richness of its bizarre Surrealist comedy offset by a dry Herzogian humor, personas blowing like desiccated leaves through their own narratives. Archaic wombs are "gingerbread drywall/all rotted out" while one's children are "all gristle, utterly inedible." Copernicus, pleasuring himself through his own telescope-cum-fifi, hopes to be found outside the next day, crawling with ants like Jeffrey Beaumont's "Blue Velvet" ear, "an intricate beadwork of dew and spew on my belly/my face all rhododendron." There are also devastating endings here, where lovers hang themselves from trees "outside the meaning of orchards/where there is only sign language for cider." One is able to see the tiers of spiritual enlightenment here, which resemble Robert Crumb's time-lapse etchings of a landscape that goes from idyllic to gentrified; but these witty, insightful, and brilliant poems are not content to be a trajectory: they settle into each of their haunted, uneasy hostels for the night (which include, in art and unfortunately in real life, their late author's own body), and spin webs that collect, drain, and ingeniously re-transfuse anything, or anyone, the reader wants to throw into them.

"Witty, action-packed, and never one to shy away from the unexpected." -- J.H. Fleming, The Queen of Moon and ShadowThings have only gotten worse.The Memphis Knights are still hunting us, and my own Cabal has labeled me a 'dark' wizard.Imagine that. Me, the Blade Mage, turned wicked. I mean...I get it, but, c'mon!Oh, and the actual dark wizards with their demon horde and new biker buddies are also still after us.And now, I don't even know if I can trust the witch, Eilidh. On top of that, if we don't figure this thing out quick, I'm pretty sure Uriah is going to do something really stupid.There's no time left to figure this out, but if we don't, a whole lot of good people are going to die. My friends will be among them, as will the rest of the Memphis Knights.This is it. This is the end game. All or nothing."Surprises explode out of the pages with nearly every chapter, it seems." -- Kristofer Upjohn, Horror is Art