Greeting Loyal Airmen, we’ve got some exciting news for your.  Scaldgrow Games has successfully completed their Kickstarter Campaign for “Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire” rpg based on my Brother Bones stories that appeared in our Airship 27 Productions titles.  A huge thanks goes out to TGlenn & Theresa Bane, and Drew Mayer, for making this all possible. The actual game module will see print in Feb 2016.  We can’t wait.

Often times we are asked about how we deal with rejections.  Oh yes, Loyal Airmen, even after three decades as a professional writer, we still do get our share of our rejections.  Thing is we never let them get us down or deter us from moving ahead.  Sometimes a rejection can turn out the be the best thing that ever happened.  Here’s a classic example.  Last year we were invited to contribute a short comic strip to a new comic book anthology which had the Frankenstein monster as its theme.  So we sat back and wrote MONSTER VS MACHINE, a story wherein the monster battled a steampunk robot.  We submitted the story and a few days later the editor replied back that it didn’t suit their needs.  They were looking for “something” else.  Okay, we shrugged and put the script away in our files.  A few months later we hooked up on-line with artist Erik Roman and asked if he’d like to draw it for us.  Erik jumped on board and did a great job bringing the story to visual life.  We were so happy with the result that ultimately we published it in the fifth issue of our own black and white title, “Ron Fortier’s Tales of the Macabre.”  It came out great and people who read it enjoyed it a lot.  One of those was our colleague, Todd Jones, who happens to publish his own line of black and white comics and he asked if he might reprint MONSTER VS MACHINE in his new issue of “Wicked Awesome Tales.”  We contacted Erik and he was A-O-K with the reprint and off Todd went.  A little while later Todd informed us he’d opted to give the story the cover spot and went as far as to commission local painter Jeff Herndon to do the cover.  What Jeff turned in is stunning (See above) and when Erik saw he was delighted.  So….not bad for a story that initially started its life as a reject.  See what we mean?  Never ever give up on a story…or whatever it is you are dreaming up.  Keep plugging till you make it happen.  So says Ye Old Air Chief.

On the subject of what’s new, check out the gorgeous painting above by super artist Ted Hammond.  The Air Chief is almost done writing LADY ACTION – The Sands of Forever.  The first ever prose story featuring this new character who is part of the Captain Action family.  As you Loyal Airmen will recall, in the past two years we’ve published two Captain Action pulp novels.  Now the ladies get their turn with this fantastic character.  Book should be finished in a few days and available for sale soon thereafter.  We’ll keep you posted.