Greeting Loyal Airmen and welcome to this week’s Flight Log.  Big news to pass along this week, so let’s rock and roll.  First up our latest Airship 27 Productions pulp book is out and on sale at Amazon.  It’s the first ever Ravenwood – Stepson of Mystery full length novel and was written by Micah Harris and features interior art (& cover) by pro artist Bret Blevins.  This is one we’ve been so anxious to bring to you and are thrilled that it is finally out and available.  We hope, as every, you’ll check it out.

The big news in last week’s Flight Log was our kicking of a mega benefit anthology project to help fellow writer/publisher Tommy Hancock. Well over 50 writers and 20 artists have signed on to the project…but the most spectacular news of all was that Doug Klauba, one one of the finest artist in the business has volunteered to paint the cover for this book – LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION.  We were bowled over by Doug’s generous offer and know what he delivers is going to be truly special. We’re hoping to have an October release date for the book.  Stay tuned for more as it develops.

We reported a while back that the good people at Scaldcrow Games are doing a Brother Bones role-playing module for the pulp-world game.  To help spur supporters, we offered to put three people who contributed into a Brother Bones story.  Scaldcrow Games owner T. Glenn Bane had that drawing to day and the winners were Gerald Kustler, Mark Kalita and Michael Brown.  Congratulations, gentlemen and yes, you are going to be in the very next Brother Bones story…the on that will be featured in the big benefit anthology book.

And finally, one our grandkids graduated from 8th this week.  Ms Taryn Rose Fortier, daughter to our son Scott and his wife Katie.  She is growing into such a beautiful young lady.  And this Fall she’s in high school  God, where does the time go?

And finally the Air Chief would like wish all the super-dads out there, a truly Happy Father’s Day.  This will be the very first such holiday the Air Chief will not be home to celebrate in over forty years being of to the Derby City Comic Con.  We were blessed with the greatest Dad in the whole world and have done our best to walk in the path he set for us.  It’s not always been easy, but when you are blessed with such wonderful sons and daughters as Scott, Kevin, Heather, Alan and Michelle, it’s not that hard either.  They are amazing human beings, two of them father’s as well….and our love for them is what has been this life’s journey so blessed.

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY LOYAL AIRMEN.  See you back here in seven.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, and here we go with a fun Flight Log this week. Titled “Thank you, Xander Bogaert.”

As many of you know our beloved Boston Red Sox have thus far been playing inferior baseball and been in the cellar of the American League East most of the season.  They had never won series, never had a come from behind win or taken three games in a row.  It seemed there was just no way to turn this downwards spiral around.  Then this past weekend against the Oakland Athletics, in Fenway, it finally happened!  The turning point we’d all be waiting for!  Boston swept the As, won three games in a row and took their first series sweep of 2015.  And it was due in large part to their young, rooking shortstop, Xander Bogaerts.  Coming up to bat in the bottom of the eight inning, the Sox were losing 5 go 1 and had two men.  Xander hit a long shot off the Green Monster and brought in two more runnings making it suddenly 5 to 3.  It was the beginning of the rally that would see them come from behind and by the end of that inning, the score was 7 to 5 in their favor.  Their close came out at the top of the 9th inning and got three quick outs to win the victory.  Trust me, Loyal Airmen, Red Sox nation had lots to celebrate.  Our boys are back!!

(AMENDING – The above was written four days ago…since then the Sox went to Baltimore and proceeded to once again play like a Little League team…losing again..and again..and again.  It hurts so bad. Sigh.)

One of the greatest joys for any writer is seeing their work in print.  After months of writing something, proofing, correcting etc.etc., the at long last get to hold it in your hands is just a sheer delight.  Such was the case this week when the Air Chief received his copies of his latest pulp novella, LADY ACTION – Sand of Forever.  Here we are in the office proudly showing them off.  And we’re told, this has been our hottest seller over at Amazon thus far this month. For that, we say to all you Loyal Airmen, thank you so very, very much.

Finally, the big news this week is the release of Airship 27 Productions’ second art book.  For the past ten years, since its inception as a pulp publisher, Airship 27 Productions’ super talented Art Director has been Rob Davis, the Air Chief’s partner and best friend in the world.  In that time aside from designing all out titles, Rob has contributed hundreds of interior illustrations to many of these books.  Now he’s collected 175 of these between two covers and the result is a book no graphic art lover or student should be without.  PULP – The Art of Rob Davis is now on-sale at Amazon and we urge you to pick up copy.  It features an Introduction by award winning British writer Ian Watson and the Air Chief does the honors of providing the post Afterword essay.  This is one book we can honestly say has been ten years in the making.

One of our best friends is publisher, writer, editor Tommy Hancock, shown above with the Air Chief taken at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con.  The other day we heard the sad news that Tommy has been diagnosed with a serious heart ailment and is going to have a hard go of it in the coming months.  Meaning no strenuous work while he follows a strict regiment of rest, diet and exercise to make his heart strong again.  Feeling truly bad about his predicament, today we launched a campaign across the internet to produce a MASSIVE new pulp fiction anthology from Airship 27 Productions to be called – THE LEGENDS OF NEW PULP FICTION.  Profits from the sale of this book, which we hope to get in early Fall will all go to Tommy and his family to help defray some of the medical expenses they will be accruing the months ahead during his recovery.  With hours of posting a call for submissions, we’ve gotten in 27 writers and 6 artists committed to the project.  This will most likely end up being the BIGGEST book we ever produce…and we couldn’t be happier.  We’ll keep you posted.

Ron Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, as most of you know, the Air Chief is a bibliophile (a lover of books) and we write a review blog on the internet called PULP FICTION REVIEWS.  Thus that is where we post our thoughts about new books that have come across our desks.  Recently one particular book we just reviewed was so exceptional we felt we had to mention it here in the Flight Log.

For almost ten years now, the Air Chief has been the moderator of a Yahoo Group on the internet called The Pulp Factory.  It is made up of 128 pulp writers, artists, editors, publishers and fans.  It is this group that hands out the coveted Pulp Factory Awards every year at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con in Chicago.  Well, one of its members is Ian Watson, who prefers to be published under the I.A. Watson moniker. Anyway, Ian loves to write essays about the most obscure subjects from the history of the British Kings to the reason for chapters in books or the role of women in pulp fiction etc.etc.  For the past two years he’s done lots and lots of these mini essays on the Pulp Factory board and last year, Pro Se Press publisher Tommy Hancock had the really great idea of collecting them into a book.   WHERE STORIES DWELL is a marvelous read and one the Air Chief recommends to all our Loyal Airmen.  It’s just fun and informative all in one.  Ian is a wealth of history knowledge and loves to share it with others.  Do yourselves a favor a go to Amazon.com and pick up a copy. You’ll be glad you did.

On a really humorous note, Fort Collins has been invaded by rabbits.  Over the past year, the number of these furry little jumpers has increased a hundredfold and they are seen virtually everywhere throughout town.  Normally this explosion in their numbers would attract such predators as foxes to come down out of the foothills and feast.  Alas, for whatever reason, no foxes at all and so the rabbits keep doing what they do best, multiply.  The other day our granddaughter, Cora. was out planting flowers for her maternal grandfather and while in his back yard saw that she had some company.  She took the photo above.  Let’s hope the little fellah dines on the green grass and not the new flowers.

Ten years ago, when the Air Chief first started writing pulp fiction he created a female characters called Miss Fury.  Her mother was Swedish and her father Japanese and her full name was Kate Furyaka, but the world would know her as Miss Fury.  That one and only story was called “FURY IN VERMONT,” and was published in an anthology called “DARK FURIES.”   Ironically the editor at the time has an artist do up an illustration for the story…but it was never used.  It’s the one above on the left.  We like the piece a great deal.  Then last year, pal Rich Harvey, asked if the Air Chief had any old stories he could reprint in his pulp magazine, “PULP ADVENTURES # 15.”  We thought it would be cool to see this story back in print for a larger audience and let him have it.  Lo and behold he commissioned artist Ed Coutts to do several illustrations from the story.  To the right above, is Ed’s loose pencils of the character.  Again, a very decent take that Air Chief appreciated a great deal.

So bring this all up you ask?  Well in about a week Airship 27 Productions will be reprinting the very first pulp book we ever published.  The one started our company; “THE HOUNDS OF HELL,” by yours truly and Gordon Linzner.  In doing up this new edition, Art Director Rob Davis and the Air Chief thought it might be best to remove the two short stories that original appeared in the back of the book with something else for the Anniversary Edition.  To that end, we suggested “FURY IN VERMONT.” Yup, it is about to get a yet a third printing and Rob has just turned in his own version of Ms. Furyaka.  When we announce the release of that new edition, we promise to show you Rob’s interpretation.  We think you’ll like it.  In the meanwhile, the Air Chief really has to sit down and write some NEW Miss Fury adventures.  Don’t you think?

And that wraps us up for this week, Loyal Airmen.  Next week Rob and the Air Chief record episode #5 of the Airship 27 Podcast.  Always look forward to those.  Till then, take care and we’ll see you all here next week.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, what with the summer season a month away, Memorial Day has come and gone and Hollywood has opened the flood-gates for their season blockbuster movies.  In the past two weeks Valerie and the Air Chief have caught several of these highly anticipated films.  AVENGERS – Age of Ultron was as much over-the-top fun as the first Avenger flick.  The following week we saw the new Mad Max actioner, FURY ROAD.  Now that is a wall to wall action movie and brilliantly staged.  The car stunts are out of this world.

Yesterday we went to see the new Disney flick, TOMORROWLAND written and directed by Brad Bird.  Now the Air Chief is a huge fan of this fellow, as he is the person responsible for JOHN CARTER, one of the best movies of the past ten years in our humble opinion.  He also designed the Iron Giant for that animated classic. So for the most part, Bird generally delivers the goods.  And at the start of this feature, we were swept away along with a young boy and his rocketpack as he gets to go to this amazing futuristic city in a parallel dimension.  Watching him swoop all over this shining metropolis, we were instantly reminded of THE ROCKETEER, another all time favorite.  There are a lot of fun things about TOMORROWLAND and the first half of the movie works beautifully.  But the ending was a major disappointment as it turns out to be a clunky sermon about saving the earth and the environment with no true message of hope for man’s future.  Now, in all fairness, Val liked the movie a great deal and says the Air Chief is way too picky.  Perhaps she’s right, but this is one we’d recommend you wait to see on TV.  That’s our two cents worth.

On the other hand what has proven to be a truly exceptional viewing experience is the History Channel’s new mini-series TEXAS RISING.  Starting from the massacre at the Alamo, this series tells the tale of the creation of Texas and the birth of the Texas Rangers.  It deals with the political and social issues of the times what with American and Mexican settlers trying to survive under the tyrannical yoke of a dictator in Santa Anna while at the same time battling Indian tribes such as the Cherokee, Apache and Comanche.  Powerful drama with an all star cast.  The Air Chief is really enjoying this one to the max.

And finally we end this week’s Flight Log on a truly happy note.  After an entire month of no releases from Airship 27 Productions, we are thrilled to announced our newest pulp book is now on sale at Amazon.  LADY ACTION- The Sands of Forever is our first ever paperback title and sells for only $8.  Based on the popular action figure line from Captain Action Enterprises, LLC, this is the first ever prose adventure of Nicola Sinclair, codename Lady Action.  That cover cover is by artist Ted Hammond and the good people at Captain Action Enterprises will be giving away free posters of it at this year’s San Diego Comic Con.  So if you are going, be sure to find their booth and get one for your wall. The Air Chief has a blast writing this and we hope you’ll enjoy it.  As ever, thanks for your continued support.

And that wraps us up for this week, Loyal Airmen. Thanks ever and have a great weekend.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, been a wet couple of weeks here in Colorado, but one bright moment was the birthday of someone truly special.

Our oldest son, Scott turned 44 back Wednesday.  Scott is such a great human being, he’s an awesome father to our grand kits Taryn and Logan, devoted husband to Katie, great brother to Kevin and Heather and again, our personal blessing in this world.  HAPPY BIRTHDAY # 1 SON!!  We hope it was great as you deserve nothing less.

Sometimes in the writing biz, it is either feast or famine.  It’s been a long while since the Air Chief has had a new book released, whereas it now appears two of our titles will be available within the next few weeks.   First should be LADY ACTION – The Sands of Forever from our own Airship 27 Productions and then a few weeks later NIGHT HAWK – Burning Skies will be coming to you from Moonstone Books. We’re extremely excited about both these titles.  Stay tuned and we’ll of course let you know exactly when they are out and where you can pick up a copy.

Almost ten years ago, the Air Chief first learned about Bass Reeves, the greatest lawman the frontier west ever had.  Shortly thereafter we picked up Prof. Art Burton’s excellent biography of Reeves and we’re blown away by this black lawman’s achievements in the Indian Territories after the Civil War.  Way to numerous to go into here.  Let us just say we were so excited, we suggested to artist Rob Davis that we create a graphic novel about the man’s life.  Eventually we did produce an 8 pg proposal and Rob did up some great artwork but sadly we could never find a comic company to pick it up and the proposal languished in our files.

Earlier this week it was announced over the internet that actor Morgan Freemen, working with an independent studio, had come to agreement with HBO for them to produce and air a mini-series biography of this great, but little know U.S. Deputy Marshal.  That news caused a huge ripple across the internet with lots of the Air Chief’s friends flagging him concerning this great news.  One such friend was writer Gary Phillips who asked if we might not be thinking of doing a Bass Reeves title for Airship 27 Productions.  Well, Gary’s query was the spark that lit the fire.  It was such a fantastic concept, we immediately set about making it happen and Gary was the first writer we recruited for the project.  BASS REEVES – FRONTIER MARSHAL will be a brand new anthology starring this amazing lawman and rounding the book will be writers Derrick Ferguson, Andrew Salmon and Mel Odom.  Rob Davis will handle the interior illustrations but no cover artist has yet been chosen.  If all goes well, we hope to have the book out in the Fall or Early Winter.  We’ll as ever keep you posted, Loyal Airmen.

Once again, thanks for stopping by and enjoy your Memorial Day Weekend.

Ron – Over & Out!

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.

Greetings Loyal Airmen, well last Sat. the Air Chief was on hand at Gryphon’s Game & Comics for Free Comic Book Day and from the time they opened the doors to closing, they were jammed packed with comic fans.  Well over 2,000 local comic fans showed up at the show.  We sold tons of comics and pulps and had a great time meeting all these great people.

One of our many pals on hand was artist Jeff Herndon, seen here at his table.  If you look at the cool painting behind Jeff you’ll see the next cover to the comic horror anthology WICKED AWESOME TALES # 4 produced by our writing pal, Todd Jones. It features the Frankenstein Monster fighting a Steampunk Robot and is based on our story, “Monster vs Machine” that appears in the comic with art by Erik Roman.  It already appeared in Ron Fortier’s Tales of the Macabre issue # 5 and we let them use it for this comic.

Here’s a closer look at this great art piece.  Jeff is truly an amazing artist.

On another fun front, Valerie and the Air Chief finally got down to the local cinema to see AVENGERS – AGE OF ULTRON and both of us loved it.  Obviously the Air Chief was in prime geek-mode throughout and think the film, as the first in the series, was just the perfect balance of action, drama and humor.  Marvel Studios once again proves they know how to do comic book movies.  One only wishes DC would pay attention, instead of always make dark, somber epics which in the end are really not that much fun at all. Sigh.

Happily the Air Chief doesn’t get sick often.  So earlier this week, when we work up with a stuffy head cold, we immediately taking steps to make its duration a short one.  Over the counter fever reducers and pain fighters for sore, achy muscles. And of course the good wishes of all our friends over on FB.  48 hrs later, we are feeling ten times better and looks like we actually did nip this old cold in the bud.  We do so hate being sick.  Besides, we can’t afford to be laid up, we’ve got tons of new comic and pulp works in progress.  Got to stay on top of things.

And that’s it for this week’s Flight Log, Loyal Airmen.  Thanks always for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, we’re very excited that tomorrow is once again Free Comic Book Day across the country.  This is a promotional event created by the major comic book publishers in this country to help promote their products and support comic book shops across the land.  Since moving out here to Fort Collins, CO, the Air Chief has been a participant of every FCBD event at Gryphons Games & Comics, our local comic shop.  Last year the shop was visited by over a thousand people.  Its most successful event ever.  We can only imagine this Saturday’s will be as equally impressive.  The Air Chief will have his table filled with lots of his comic and pulp titles. We’re truly anxious to see many of our old comic friends again and have a great day.

As most of you know, Valerie & Air Chief love movies.  Earlier this week we saw the new sci-fi thriller EX MACHINA.  Unlike the usual action filled blockbusters about to flood the theaters in the next few weeks, this is a slow-moving, thought provoking cautionary tale about a scientist creating a robot with artificial intelligence.  The simple nickname these days is A.I.  It is a suspenseful thriller that builds slowly and forces the viewer to examine his or her own thoughts about the consequences should we, mankind, ever succeed in creating such a thinking, self-aware machine.  It’s really a scare thought.   On a different note, what was also particularly unsettling was that the young lady playing Ava, the robot, (who was excellent in the role by the way) reminded both of us a great deal of our oldest granddaughter, Kristi, now studying for Masters Degree.  There is a strong resemblance between the two of them.  Maybe we can get Kristi to go see the film and get her reactions.

On other fronts, we showed off the release of the Moonstone Books pulp anthology, DAY OF THE DESTROYERS while in Chicago. Well the Air Chief’s copies arrived in the mail the other day and we are really thrilled to have them. This was a great project to work and it features some of the best new pulp writers in the game today. Remember, you can get copy from Amazon and other well known booksellers.

Over the past half-year the Air Chief has been very busy writing lots of pulp projects for Moonstone Books, both prose and comics.  One of the comics, GUNS OF THE BLACK BAT, is a team book wherein the Black Bat recruits well-known pulp heroes to help him battle the forces of evil.  The artist on the series is the amazing Silvestre Szilagyi who is decidedly one of the finest artist the Air Chief has ever had the good fortune to work with.  Every time he turns in a page, we are simply amazed.  Recently Silvestre did up some sketches of Jim Anthony – Super Detective as this character appears in a recent issue of this title and we thought all you Loyal Airmen would love seeing these great sketches.  As for the comic itself, Moonstone is hoping to have the first issue out sometime in the Fall.  Stay tune, as we’ll keep you posted.

And there you have another Flight Log, Loyal Airmen. Thanks for stopping by and we’ll see you back here again next week.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we’ve just flown back to Hangar 27 after a fantastic weekend in Chicago at the Windy City Pulp & Paper Con and we had so much fun.  Lots to talk about and show off for you, so hang in there.

As many of you know, Valerie and the Air Chief have five wonderful children, the youngest being our daughter Heather who now lives in Chicago.  So this year, after the show, she and a friend drove up to the con so hook up with her Old Dad.  We all went out to dinner and had a great visit.  This shot was taken coming out of the restaurant.  It really is sad that our little ones have to grow up and then move all over the country making these hook-ups all the more precious. Love you, Heather..and miss you already.

2015 PULP FACTORY AWARDS

On Friday night, April 17th, at this year’s Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention, the sixth annual Pulp Factory Awards were presented. These awards spotlight the best in new pulp fiction and artwork from the previous year. The award trophies were presented by the Yahoo Pulp Factory Group Moderator, Ron Fortier and Rob Davis, Art Director for Airship 27 Productions.  The Best Pulp Novel went to Van Allen Plexico for his space opera, “Legion III : Kings of Oblivion from White Rocket Books. The Best Pulp Short Story went to Ian Watson for his “The Fort of Skulls” which appeared in “Pride of the Mohicans” from White Rocket Books.  For the very first time, the Best Pulp Anthology/Collection award went to White Rocket Books for “Pride of Mohicans.”  The Best Pulp Cover went to Mark Williams for his painted cover to “Legion II : Sons of Terra” from White Rockets.  Best Interior Illustrations went to Fabio Listrani for his illustrations in “Zombies Vs. Robots: No Man’s Land” from IDW.

Our congratulations to all the winners and especially to White Rocket Books for their near sweep. The awards themselves reflected nominations from twenty-four new pulp publishers.  Above is Managing Editor of White Rocket Books, Van Plexico accepting one of the two awards he picked up, including the Best Anthology for which he was editor…and as you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief has a story in that volume.  We were thrilled by this win.

More pictures from Windy City. Here’s pal Gordon Dymowski with Tommy Hancock of Pro Se Productions.

Airship 27 writers Tim Bruckner & Gene Moyers holding up a copy of our new DOMINO LADY Vol One in which they both had a story.  Note it sold out at the con.

And here the Air Chief with one of our most Loyal Airmen, the one and only John Bodnar. A really good friend. Always great to have him join us at this show.

The newest release from Moonstone Books is their pulp anthology DAY OF THE DESTROYERS.  Above, left to right holding copies, are writers Adam Garcia, Tommy Hancock, the Air Chief and Moonstone’s own Managing Editor, Joe Gentile.  We will most more con photos next week.

A while back we mentioned T. Glenn Bane of Scaldcrow Role Playing Games was developing a pulp rpg based on our Brother Bones series. It’s called, “Ron Fortier’s Cape Noire,” and if you’d like to help get it launched, you can do so by going to the link below and making a pledge.  This looks to be particularly fun and creepy. (https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1279968844/ron-fortiers-cape-noire-rpg)  Note, if the campaign is successful, the Air Chief has offered up this extra bonus.  All contributors, no matter at what level they donate, will be put in a drawing and from this pool 3 names will be drawn.  Those 3 people will appear in the next Brother Bones story from the Air Chief.  Just my way of say thanks to everyone who pitched in to make this happen.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  Be back in seven as we get ready for this year’s Free Comic Book Day and share a few more pictures from Windy City.  As ever, thanks for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal, Airmen, as you are reading this Flight Log, the Air Chief is in Chicago, along with Airship 27 Productions’ Art Director, attending the 15th Annual Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention.  This is a show we never miss, as it is one of the premier pulp conventions in the country.  On Friday night, Rob and the Air Chief will be hosting the Pulp Factory Awards presentations and we’ll be sure to post the winners right here in next week’s Flight Log.

Also this past week, our third episode of the Airship 27 Podcast wetn live here on our You Tube Channel.  (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6r9khuTMQ_I)  We talked about our latest release, DOMINO LADY Vol One and lots of other fun stuff.  We are having a blast doing the show and hope you Loyal Airmen are enjoying them.  Remember, we do love getting our e-mail feedback and questions, which do help us plan future segments.

This past week saw the series wrap-up of JUSTIFIED, a show Valerie and the Air Chief really enjoyed these past six years.  Based entirely on an Elmore Leonard short story, this tale of a U.S. Deputy Marshall, Raylan Givens, trying to capture his old childhood friend turned outlaw, Boyd Crowder, in Harlan county, Kentucky, was always fun.  Oh sure, some seasons were better than others but as the show ended, on what we thought was a solid finale, we are really going to miss Harlan and its oddball characters.

One of the real joys of operating Airship 27 Productions is working with some of the most creative and talented artist in the world. One such is Clayton Hinkle, who, over the past few years have illustrated many of our titles.  Right now Clayton is doing the 9 illustrations that will be featured in a new thriller novel by author Fred Adams, Jr. and we thought you’d like a sneak-peek (above).

And there you have it Loyal Airmen, we have to go finish packing up the old Airship 27.  We’ll see you in Chicago and back here in seven. Till then, stay well.

Ron – Over & Out!