Greetings loyal airmen.  I hope all of you are surviving the deep freeze that has most of the USA in its icy grip.  So much for what happened to winter, huh.  Still, we are getting through it and within another couple of weeks, lo and behold, our beloved Boston Red Sox open their Spring Training season in Ft.Myers, Florida.  A sure sign that true Spring is really just around the corner.

And after hibernating for so long these past few weeks, I want to be sure to invite all of you in the New England to stop by the Primates Production Comic Convention in Boston coming up quick.  Just a little over a week away, it is the 18th of Feb. and if you go to my links page, you'll be able to link up with their home webpage for all the details, times and directions.   The comic book guest of honor will be Rick Leonardi, who was a personal favorite of mine when I was collecting Marvel.  The guy is an amazing talent and it is going to be a pleasure to meet him.

I'm listed as tthe “author” guest.  Which, I suppose is what I am.  Although I've always prefered the term writer, myself.   Author somehow seems haughty, doesn't it?  Whereas writer implies a working stiff, which is what writing is in the end, work.  I may love doing it, but sometimes it is very much like pulling teeth.  Ha.  Anyway, I will be on hand with a slew of my recent Wild Cat Books titles to autograph and sell.  I'll be bringing copies of, BROTHER GIRM, THE HOUNDS OF HELL, CAPTAIN HAZZARD #1 and CAPTAIN HAZZARD #2.  So, if you are missing any of these from your collection of Ron Fortier books, come on down (or up..) to the show and pick them up.  Of course if you have any of these and would like me to sign them for you, by all means, I'm only too happy to do so, airmen.  And a special note here,  at conventions like these, I always sell my books for less than the current Amazon and Barnes & Noble prices.  My personal way of thanking each and every one of you for supporting my humble efforts.  Lastly, I can't really ever get away from my comic roots and I will also have copies of my Gargoyle comics on sale as well.  Here's keeping my fingers crossed lots of you airmen will stop by to say hi and make this a great show.

Finally, after being gone for the past eight weeks, my beautiful wife, Valerie, flies home tomorrow.   It's been a long, long eight weeks.  You see, Val hates the winters here and over the years both of us came to understand that she truly would get into a very bad depression in the middle of the season.  She's always been a summer girl ever since she was young.  When we started going to Ft.Collins, Coloado, to spend every other Christmas with our son, Alan, we were surprised to realize just how mild the winters are on the Eastern side of the Rockies. 

Lots milder than good old New Hampshire.  So, one year I suggested, that after Christmas, she stay with Al and his family through Jan.  That way when she came home it would be Feb. and even as brutal as this short little month can be, the days do get longer and we are all pretty much coasting down into Spring.  The idea was to give her a break from the long winter stretch.   We've been doing it for several years now and it has really worked out well, for both her spirit and mine.  When you love somebody, it's about making them happy.  Not you.  So the price for her health, is our separation for a month. This year, for reasons I won't get into, that 4 to 6 weeks turned into 8.  I don't like our being apart, but seeing her tomorrow will make the last few weeks vaporize from my thoughts instantly.  They say absence makes the heart grow fonder.   Amen to that.
And welcome home, sweetie.

Airmen, have a great week, Ron, over and out.