Greetings loyal, airmen.  Well, its been another busy week, as Valerie and I start making arrangements for our trip out to Colorado come the 17th of Dec. to spend Christmas with out son, Alan, and his family.  Meanwhile the whole world seems to have gone topsy turvy weather-wise, as we just finished one of the mildest November's ever here in New England.  Today it's in the mid 50s, and just plain unnaturally warm.  Whereas the rest of the country, especially the mid-west is getting walloped by foul weather.  Mother Nature can be freaky when she wants to be.  Lots of odds and end stuff this time around.  Hope you enjoy.
 
                                      

I just finished reading LUCKY AT CARDS yesterday.  Lawrence Block is one of my favorite writers and you can see my full review of the book by clicking on to my Pulp Fiction Review link in the paragraphs above.  If you haven't visited my review site in a while, please do.  It has more than a half-dozen reviews up now, all of books you might get a kick out of.
  
                                                

Of course, holiday seaon or not, my pulp work continues for Wild Cat Books and one of the anthologies we have in production for next year feature..THE BLACK BAT.   Here is a super pin-up of that classic pulp hero as turned in by artist Jason Baroody and inker Chris Chua.  They will be doing both the cover and the interior spot illustrations.  I'll keep you posted.

Yesterday I sat down with a pot of coffee, three full boxes of Christmas cards and pulled up my address list on my computer.  It was time for the treaded Christmas card chore.  Of course I'm only kidding, as it is one tradition I actually look forward to every year at this time.  Why?  Because in going down the list of names in my files and stopping at those people I consider friends, I was once again reminded of just how many I do have.  And this year in particular, the list seemed to almost double, thanks in large part to lots of you airmen and the new writers and artists who've become part of my pulp-family.  By the end of the afternoon I had used up all the cards in the those three boxes and still have a few more to send out!!!  Boy is the Post Office going to love me this year.  Ha.  Of course one of the realities of life is, no matter how hard you try to not to forget someone, you invariably do…and you don't catch it..until you receive their Christmas card to you.  At which point you slap yourself on the head and go, DUH.   Well, my dear, loyal airmen, I don't want to miss a single one of you, so if you allow me to go digital a wee bit, the Christmas Elf boy is my good wishes to alll of you.

                                       MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY TO NEW YEAR
                                                           From Your Air Commander

Till next week, Ron, over and out.