Greetings loyal airmen and thanks for all of you who've sent well wishes these past 48 hours.  All of us, Val, her mom, and yours truly, are slowly…slowly on the mend.  As one of my writer colleague's so aptily pointed out, I was pretty much zapped by Murphy's Law this weekend.  Not only were we all very, very sick to the point of physical incapacitation, but then we got socked by that snowstorm on top of things.  How Valerie and I, yesterday afternoon, managed to clean up the driveway is still a hazy blur to me today.  And one of the most frustrating things about all this was my inability to rant and rave about the biggest and most wonderful news to come down the airstrip in a long, long time.   We, my pulp production team and I, have a brand new name, logo and most importantly, a new publisher.

Adamant Entertainment is the brainchild of Gareth Michael Skarka.  It began as a role-playing outfit with a very special focus on pulps.  A few months ago Gareth joined our on-line pulp association, the Pulp Factory and announced his intentions to get into fiction publiishing with a new magazine that will be called Thrilling Tales.  At the time I thought this was all well and good but couldn't have guessed how it would ultimately come to impact my own future.   Two weeks ago, Wild Cat Books publisher Ron Hanna and I had a long, and extended discussion about the future of WCB and Ron Fortier Productions.  In the last two years, my creative team of 25 writers and 11 artists has produced eight exceptionally beautiful books for WCB and our association had been nothing but mutually supportive.    Alas nothing in life is forever and during the exchanged I referred to, it became clear to myself and Ron H that we both had very different goals for the future.   Goals that would be best served by a parting of the ways.   Ron H has lots of very cool ideas for a new line of books he wants to produce and I think he's going to do a bang up job with them.   And despite what some few people on the net might think, this parting is very much a friendly and positive one.   In fact, during the discussions  about how we would end our partnership, we both agreed to continue with the two books that were set for release.   One, PROF.STONE & THE EYE OF RE by Wayne Skiver, came out this week.   If you like Doc Savage and Captain Hazzard, do not miss this first in a series featuring this original pulp hero.  And next week, with fingers crossed, we will be delivering WCB our last anthology book, SECRET AGENT X, Vol II.  Four more brand new stories of the world's great super spy.  You won't want to miss it.

Okay, but I'm digressing here.  Realizing we no longer had a publisher, I began to try and work out a strategy with my art director, Rob Davis, and Production & Design Manager, Anthony Schiavino.   Bottom line was we still very much wanted to continue producing pulp books, but without a publisher, the future looked extremely gloomy.  These books do cost money to publish, airmen.  Money that none of us had in abundance.  During those few days, a  part of me began to think our efforst were going to be for naught.   Somewhere in all this, I managed to post a notice on the Pulp Factory boards that we were parting ways with WCB.  Little did I realize what that notice would bring me.  That very same day, within hours, Gareth Michael Skarka wrote and offered to take us on, if we so desired.  Our production crew, without a single skipped beat, would simply continue doing what we've been doing for the past two years, only now with a new and bigger publisher.  The word YES never came out of my mouth so fast!!  Once Rob and Anthony were informed of this new offer, they too were eager to sign on and keep the ball rolling.  Of course we realized a new venture should entail a new name and so Rob and Anthony, with a little in-put from yours truly, came up with the Airship 27 Productions logo you see above this column, side by side with that of Adamant Entertainment.   And for the first time ever, our books are going to have access to a broad distribution network we never dreamed possible.  Yup.  You'll soon be seeing Airship 27 pulp titles in your local comic shops, bookstores and various digital formats that again were simply not available to us in the past.  It's a major step forward for all of us involved, but with your continued support, I'm confident it is the change we've all been waiting for. 

Right now you can go to (www.thrillingtales.net) check out lots more of this exciting new partnership. They have set up a forum which will, for the first time ever, allow all of us to communicate with all of you directly.  Please stop on by and register.  Hopefully I'll have the link posted on my own links page within the next few days.   Likewise, all of our previous WCB books are still very much available from Ron H and their link is staying on our page permanently.  In fact that is where you should go right now to order a copy of….

Wayne Skiver is one of the finest new writers of action adventure I've ever encountered.  His character is a wonderful blend of all the old classics and his stories just burn across the pages.  And the artwork on this winner, both cover and interior spots is by Michael Mitchell, another new rising star on the graphic scene.  So if top not pulp adventure is your cup of tea, click on to the Wild Cab Books link on the link page and check it out.  This is a classic in the making.

And that's it for our first ever Sunday log, airmen.  Take care of yourselves.
Ron, over and out.