Greeting a whole day early, loyal airmen. I normally do log entries only on Friday morning, but this one is a bit different. You see, after almost twenty-some odd years of dreaming and working to get out a Captain Hazzard pulp book, it’s now here! Yesterday morning Wild Cat Books announced the release of my rewrite of the
original novel, PYTHON MEN OF THE LOST CITY, in an absolutley gorgeous volume. The stunning cover is by Tom Floyd and the interior features nine terrific illustrations by Rob Davis. Add three sneek-peek chapters at CITADEL OF FEAR, the first all-new Captain Hazzard novel in over 70 years, an interview with yours truly by WCB publisher, Ron Hanna…and three pages from the proposed Captain Hazzard comic book and it’s clear to see what I am wound for sound.

In the past, all you loyal airmen have been wonderfully supportive and my two previous pulp books are still selling, thanks to you. I hope you’ll jump over to the AirFare page and click on to Captain Hazzard and check it out. If you like slam-bang, all out action, done in the old fashion purple prose style, you are going to love Captain Hazzard.

The greatest marketing tool on the internet has been word-of-mouth. Currently we have approximately 800 of you loyal airmen you stop by the Airship 27 Hangar every single week. Now if all of you were to send out a notice of this book, and it’s link, to any of your family and friends who dig this brand of action fiction, one can only guess at how many others would get the message. It’s the electric ripple in the pond, airmen. Let’s send this wave across the globe.

Oddly enough, yesterday also saw the release of my latest comic book, FRANK NG-HIRED GUN, but whereas the printer has yet to put the book up on their store-site, I am going to hold off ranting and raving about that one (..I mean, how much excitemen can you airmen take..) until next week’s entry. Which will fittingly enough coincide with Free Comic Book Day.

Finally, one little fly in all the fun of yesterday. The day earlier, Valerie and I had gone to the local Wally-Mart to buy a new, small portable TV to put on our breeze-way. You know the same one with the brand new windows I mentioned last week. Well, I hooked it up, turned it on and we watched it while eating lunch out there. The next day Valerie turns it on and it won’t play. We fiddled with it for over an hour and could not get it to work. Good old quality control strikes again. Early this morning it was returned and we got our money back. When the clerk asked if wanted a new one, Val said no-way. If this one was defective, the odds are so are all the others in the same lot. Oh, well, we’ll just keep shopping..at other stores. Ha.

The Red Sox, thanks to all their non-super star players, Adam Stern, Kevin Youkalis, Mark Loretta (amongst others) are on top of the AL East and playing extremely good baseball. As a fan with high blood pressure, I would appreciate them doing more 9 to 1 games. Those low count battles are fraying my nerves all to hell. Ha.

All for this week, go buy Captain Hazzard.
Ron, over and out.