Greetings Loyal Airmen, by now we’re sure this week’s heading had you sit up and take notice.  Well, allow us to explain fully.

As you may recall, a few weeks ago we were saddened to announce the passing of our good friend and writer, Mark Justice of Kentucky.  One of Mark’s most recent projects was to be a series of weird western starring a zombie lawman he called the Dead Sheriff.  A first book was published a while back and Mark was active on a second.  At the time of his passing, Mark had wanted Airship 27 Productions to take over the series; i..e by reprinting his re-edited first book and then handling subsequent sequels.  We were only too thrilled with the idea and happily agreed.

With his sudden passing, we thought those plans would never see fruition. Then earlier this week we received an e-mail from Mark’s wife, Norma Kay.  It seems Norma was well aware of Mark’s wishes on this matter and was writing to see if we were still willing to go forward with the books.  Loyal Airmen, for a second we could feel our old pal smiling down on us from above.  We immediately replied and told Norma we were 150% still on board and more so than ever.  We want to the world to see and read these awesome books by one of the best writers who ever put pen to paper.  Happy with our response, Norma sent along this pix.  Apparently one of Mark’s readers who had picked up that first book liked it so much, he did up these action figures of the two principle characters.  She said Mark loved them and we can see why.  Anyway, hold on to your Stetsons, Loyal Airmen, the Dead Sheriff lives!!!

As we are on the subject of zombie heroes, we thought we’d pass along some updates on our Brother Bones the Undead Avenger.  The good people Scaldcrow Games are moving closer to the April debut of “Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire” RPG based on all our Brother Bones adventures in prose and comics.  At the same time we recently heard from gifted voice actor Scott Bennett.  Scott is currently recording the first “Brother Bones The Undead Avenger” for audio books from Radio Archives and ultimately, Audible.com – Scott writes that he loves our character and is having a fun time with these stories.  Now that’s encouraging and we can’t wait to see him bring them to “audio” life.  We’ll keep you posted as always.  Oh, and here’s a tidbit no one else knows; this past week the Air Chief began a new Cape Noire story which we hope will eventually be a small part of our fourth collection. Stay tuned.

And finally the good folks at Radio Archives just released two new Airship 27 Productions titles as Audio books available from (www.Audible.com). “The Bagman vs The World’s Fair,” by B.C. Bell as ready by Roberto Scarlato and “Mars McCoy – Space Ranger, Volume Two” stories by Van Allen Plexico and James Palmer as read by Partick Nolan.  If you’ve never listened to one of these, trust the Air Chief, Loyal Airmen, you don’t know what fun you are missing.

And that’s it for this week. Thanks as ever for stopping by and we’ll see you back here in seven days.

Ron – Over & Out!