Greeting loyan airmen, it is my sincerest hope that all of you are well and happy as we roll into what is the most beautiful season in New Hampshire, Fall.   Colors are about to erupt over the landscape draping the mountains and valleys in bright hues of red, orange and yellow.  During my short stint in the military, October was the month I missed most not being home.  Then again having been born in November, I guess I'm very much a Fall soul.

One of the interesting things of life I've been a student of most of my adult years is the connect-the-dot theory.
Basically no one act, be it benevolent or cruel, is ever unconnected to the other events in your life.  Case in point, what happened last week-end.   It deals with something I was involved with several years ago.  You see I wrote a three act play called WHERE LOVE TAKES YOU and it tells the story of how my mother and father met and fell in love in the months just prior to the start of World Wark II; and how they had to put their romance on hold for nearly five years while he was off serving his country in the South Pacific.  I'd heard the story from both of them hundreds of times growing up and was so enamored of it, I finally set it down on paper.  Well, as a play which, to my blind first-timer's luck, actually got produced.   A wonderful community theater group; the Sanford Maine Theater Company put it over a week-end, three sold-out performances that most of my family had the opportunity to see and enjoy.  Opening night with my mother in the front row was a high I will never-ever forget.  Afterwards I tried in vain to interest another company in doing it, but alas, had no success and began to wonder if I'd ever see it staged again.

I've been keeping most of you update with all the pulp books I am producing for Ron Hanna's Wild Cat Books and I'm having a great time in the process.  I'm currently working with 22 writers and 8 artists on so many titles that I can't remember all of them off-hand.  It's hectic but fun.  Well, a few weeks ago I was called by a local journalist asking if he could come over and interview me about this new career of mine as a pulp writer/editor.   His name is Tim Robinson and he came over last Sat. afternoon.  Well, lo and behold, before getting into the pulp stuff, Tim started asking me about my play!  It seems he had visited the hangar, seen it listed on my credits page and wanted to know all about it.  Turns out he is the member of a theater group in nearby Portsmouth whose mission it is to promote and produce plays by local writers.   And he very much wanted to read my play, after we  wrapped up the pulp-interview-article thing.  I sent it off to him a couple of nights ago and am now waiting to see what happens next.  Will they want to produce or not?  All fingers are crossed.  As you can see, the last thing I expected in getting ready for interview about my pulp work was to end up possibly seeing my play produced a second time.  See what I mean about connnect-the-dots?  You just never know.   Oh, and the lovely young lady in that poster above is my mother, Gabrielle Richer-Fortier at the age of 17.  Wasn't she a doll?

And that wasn't the end of weird resurfacings for your Hangar Chief.  Nope, I was going to get another very big surprise within the next 48 hours.

A little over two years ago I did a 16 page crime comic called..TEMPLE & NASH – The Cockroach Conspiracy.  It's still available for sale over on our Air Fare page if any of you are curious.  I did it with a gifted young artist from Tampa, Florida named Johnny Atomic.  It was Johnny's first comic work and it led to his opening up an entire new art studio down there.  He's been very successful at it.  So the Monday afternoon after the interview week-end, Johnny called and said he'd recently become involved with a Tampa based Film Production looking to start making small-budgeted-independent movies.  They are interested in my writing a 90 minute movie for them based on our comic characters!!  That's one of them in the illo above, Detective Vincent Nash.  Now as tantalizing as this may seem, let me assure you most such options rarely materialize.  Still I wasn't about to pass up on the opportunity.  I wrote a four page story treatment detailing the script I would write if given the green light and sent it off.  Johnny will pass it on to the Film people and they'll make their decision.  If yes, then I'll be flown down to Tampa and meet with them to see where we go from there.  If not, well, the last few days have been exciting and writing the treatment was fun. 

So as you can see, things have been rather exciting around the old hangar.  Will either of these wonderful projects actually get off the ground?  Who can say?  The odds are overwhelmingly against both for so many reasons, I won't elaborate.  Still, I've always been an optimist and have made lots of my dreams come true.  Let's see if two more are in the wings.  I'll keep you posted, in the meanwhile you all keep me in your prayers.

That's it (as if it wasn't enough..ha) for this week, airmen. Take care, Ron over and out.