Greeting Loyal Airmen to this Good Friday.  For those of you of the Christian faith, we offer our most prayerful intentions that you and your loved ones celebrate a joyous and wonderful Easter.  May the Lord Jesus, who sacrificed his own life to save us all, reward each and every one of you with his boundless graces of love and charity.
Amen.

Keeping in mind, the Air Chief is a post World War II baby-boomer in 1946, we grew up all the way into our teens in a world where men wore hats.  For the most part they for small or wide brimmed fedoras and they were the norm.  Now our father wasn't particularly a hat-guy himself, but he would always don a dapper number when going to church on Sunday.  He would have been particularly spiffy on this coming Easter Sunday. Again, hats were very much the norm and the Air Chief still has memories of walking past haberdasher shops as a kid.  For you young readers, that's a hat store.  Trying finding one of those anywhere these days.

It would be hard to pin-point exactly when the culture changed, but if memory serves me correctly, men's hats remained in fashion throughout the 50s but when the long-haired hippie movement of the early 60s rolled onto the cultural scenes, things began to change.  Obviously if a young dude was starting to wear his hair down to his shoulders, like a girl, then putting a hat on it only added to the hilarity of the image.  And so, as hair grew longer, the sales of hats waned…and waned until by the mid 60s they had indeed gone out of fashion.  Today, if the Air Chief takes a trip through town, he'll most likely see baseball caps as the more popular headgear for today's males.  Although out here in Colorado, you'll also see a smattering of cowboy hats for sure.

Now we bring this all up today because one of the most frustrating things we, at Airship 27 Productions, deal with on a regular basis is having to coax today's young illustrators on how to draw a proper hat.  Really. Really.  As most of our pulp fiction takes place in the 30s and 40s, it is mandatory that our illustrators draw these period hats and it causes them all kinds of fits.  They just don't get how to do it properly.

Recently a friend of our posted the above HOW TO DRAW THE HAT schematics on Facebook and we immediately shared it to our own FB page.  Where it instantly drew all kinds of sympathetic comments from other writers and editors with our same problems. Of course several of our young regular artists chimed in as well echoing what we've stated here; that brought up in a world with no hats, they are at a distinct disadvantage in how to capture them properly.  Some were even happy we'd posted the above pages which they were going to be keeping in their files from now on.

                          
Finally we thought it only fair to end this week's Flight Log with an example on how it is done properly. Above is one of the recent illustrations done by Art Director Rob Davis for our latest SECRET AGENT X title.  Rob is an old hand at drawing hats as is evidence in this wonderful illustration.  Like everything else, he says it just takes lots and lots of practice. Ha.  Still, its a fascinating subject, the changes in fashion and one has to wonder if maybe some day men's hats might not make a come back?  And if so, in what shape or style.  Hmm, now that could prove very, very interesting.

Finally, we once again wish all our Loyal Airmen a truly HAPPY EASTER!!!  The day after the new baseball season opens with out beloved Red Sox taking on their main rivals, the New York Yankees in New York.  Now that's the way to kick of Spring.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we're going to leave you with a short Flight Log this week.  You see the Air Chief has been sick for the past week and only yesterday learned he had a touch of pneumonia which is now being treated properly with the right meds…and a booster shot in the posterior.  Ouch.  Ah, the things one has to do to get well.  So Loyal Airmen you'll please forgive me for making this entry brief.

But we did want to leave you with another very cool Mr.Jigsaw pin-up.  This one done up by Erik Roman.  Erik and the Air Chief are now working on an eight comic strip called THE MONSTER VS THE MACHINE and we've been bowled over by this young man's talent.  Well apparently Erik saw our call-out asking for more Jiggy pin-ups and last night whipped up the sketch below.  We love it and upon seeing it in this morning's mail, it did a miraculous thing.  It put a smile on our face.

                        
                                        JIGGY by Erik Roman

Sometimes when you are sick, a smile can make all the difference in the world. Thanks so much, Erik. And for sure, once we get it all inked up, we'll repost it here for all you Loyal Airmen to see. Thanks for stopping by,
sending us some healing thoughts and we'll be getting lots of bed rest these next few days.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen.  Airship 27 Productions is very, very excited to announce its third book of they year, a modern day suspense crime thriller by Mike Baron called, BIKER.

This is a gritty, tough story of an ex-con, biker Josh Pratt who has turned his life around and is now working for a lawyer as a private investigator.  When a woman dying of cancer ask Pratt to find the baby she gave up years ago, at first he thinks it is an average lost-and-found case until she confesses the baby's father is a sick, twisted psycho name Moon who has vowed to killer her if he ever found her again.  So now Pratt needs to find the boy without arousing the killer dad.  Trust me, Loyal Airmen, once the Air Chief started reading this one, he just couldn't put it down till the end.  Baron has a way with characters as he proved when writing his two classic comic book series, NEXUS and BADGER.  You really don't want to miss BIKER. It features nine interior illustrations by newcomer Joe Arnold and our Art Director Rob Davis designed the stunning cover above.  The book is now on sale at Amazon and through them on Kindle.

                                         
                                                       From GHOST BOY art by Gary Kato

Speaking of Kindle, in the past few months many of you Loyal Airmen have written telling us how much you like being able to get our Airship 27 titles on that e-reader.  Whereas others of you have mentioned being frustrated that not all of our 63 titles are on the service yet.  This is true, but let us assure you we are making lots of progress on that front so that more than half of these old  titles are available on Kindle, as is each new one we publish from now on like last month's GHOST BOY.  See the very cool interior illustration from that volume by artist Gary Kato.  Also note, this past week, Rob did get all four of our SECRET AGENT X books on to Kindle.  So again, thanks for your support and patience.  If there is a particular title you are still waiting on to be added to the Kindle roster and we haven't gotten to it yet, feel free to drop us a line and let us know.  Ultimately, as ever, the goal is to have them all on Kindle.  Hey, who knows, maybe the Air Chief might actually break down and get one of those fancy new toys and see what all the commotion is all about.   Ha.

                                
And finally, while waiting for Gary Kato to get to drawing the 11th issue of  MR. JIGSAW – Man of a Thousand Parts, the Air Chief put out the word on the internet inviting other artists who were willing, to contribute pin-ups of our hero, Jiggy.  One of the first to answer this call was a local friend, artist Abe Akins, who turned in that stellar pin-up above. He did a fantastic job and really captured the fun essence of our break-apart hero. We hope other artists amigos will follow suit.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. Thanks as ever for stopping by and take care until next week.
Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, as we pen this week's Flight Log, Colorado is getting set to get dumped with more snow as March is totally roaring in, across the entire country, like a Lion.  Our daughter and friends in Chicago have finally seen the white stuff…lots of it, and the past two days have seen the East Coast buried once again under that heavy snow blanket.  One has to wonder if we might not end up with a white Easter after all?

Okay, time to get to our main topic of the week and by the title, you already know we're about to discuss one of the greatest four-legged film stars of all time, Rin Tin Tin!

As most of you Loyal Airmen know, the Air Chief is a huge fan of the movie serials.  A while back, while searching through the DVD bargain bins of a local retailer, we found a collection all four serials featuring the amazing German Shepherd dog-star, Rin Tin Tin produced by Mill Creek Productions.  We picked it up, having seen one of these serials long ago on TV as a child.  We also recalled the 1950s TV series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin.  So we were naturally anxious to view these adventure cliffhangers.  In the process, our natural writers' curiosity got the best of us and we started surfing the web to learn more about this well known furry friend.

During the days of World War One, an American soldier named Lee Duncan,while serving in battle torn France discovered a female German Shepherd who had just delivered a litter of puppies.  These dogs had been used by the German Army for various missions in combats; primarily to deliver messages from one unit to another.  Duncan, an animal lover, decided to help the Mother and give her and her puppies a home by finding other soldiers to adopt them.  But he kept two for himself, a girl, he called Nanette, and a male he christened Rin Tin Tin.  Upon his return to the states, after the war, poor Nanette became ill on the sea voyage back to New York and died of pneumonia there.  Duncan return to California by train with swiftly maturing Rinty, as he nicknamed him.

Duncan soon became involved with silent movies and during one particular film, a domesticated wolf which had a crucial part in the story began to give its handlers a difficult time and the director could not shoot the scenes he needed properly.  Someone suggested using Duncan's German Shepherd, as they had observed how well mannered and trained Rinty was.  So Rin Tin Tin got his first action role playing a wolf.  It was the beginning of a wonderful career for both Rinty and his owner.  Rin Tin Tin would go on to star in many silent epics and continued to work into the era of the “talkies” filming his one and only serial, “The Lightning Warrior,” which is one of the four serials in the Mill Creek collection.

Rin Tin Tin died on Aug. 10th, 1932 and was buried in a bronze coffin.  Of course long before his passing, he did sire many pups, one of which looked exactly like him and Duncan named Rin Tin Tin Jr.  It was Rinty Jr. who would go on to greater success yet, starring in three cliffhanger serials and working along such notable serial action stars as Buster Crabbe and Kane Richmond.

By the 1950s television was here and Rinty Jr. moved effortlessly into this new media with his own half hour series, The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin, wherein he lived with a young boy, Rusty, on a U.S. Cavalry fort in the American west.  Prior to the debut of this show, there had been a Rin Tin Tin comic book produced by Dell.  With the advent of the show, they merely changed the title to include the Rinty's new friend, Rusty.  The Air Chief has many, many fond memories of this series.

Rin Tin Tin Jr. and his descendants would continue to be featured in both movies and TV shows well into the 1980s, from RIN TIN TIN K-9 to the Adventures of Rin Tin Tin Jr. wherein he was member of an EMT crew of paramedics in Los Angeles.  To this day he is still remembered fondly by two generations who grew up enjoying his adventures. Writer Susan Orlean authored a comprehensive book on his incredible life and the man who, through loved, fostered that wonderful adventure.  The Air Chief is putting it on his Amazon wish-list right now.

And there you go, Loyal Airmen.  On other fronts, as Spring nears, many schools are getting ready for their March Spring break.  Recently the Air Chief was invited to participate, with several other comic creators, on a fun program called “Getting Your Geek On,” to be sponsored by the Fort Collins Museum of Discovery.  During the last week of the month, when school kids here are on vacation, the museum will be presenting a three hour block of activities featuring different fun themes from the exploration of space to robots and video game.  On Friday, the block is entitled “Creating A Comic Book Superhero,” which is the program the Air Chief will be involved with along with fellow writer Todd Jones and artist Lee Oaks.  It looks to be lots of fun. Then the very following week, the museum will be repeating the entire program for the children of nearby Loveland, who will have that particular week off.  So we get to do the program twice.  The Air Chief is truly looking forward to these events.  It is always fun to work with young kids, their imagination is limitless.

And there you have our Flight Log for this week, Loyal Airmen.  With fingers crossed, we'll be announcing the release of our latest Airship 27 pulp title.  This one is truly special. More next week. Till then, stay warm and thanks as ever for stopping by.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we are finishing up another week.  In fact, as you read this, we'll have put February to sleep and be getting into March. If the weather across the land these past few weeks is indication, March will indeed come in like a lion and hopefully go out like a lamb.  And within two weeks will once again be resetting our clocks as the days continue to lengthen, a sure sign of Spring on the way.

One of the most enjoyable aspects of Spring for Airship 27 Productions is our annual trip to the Windy City Pulp & Paper Convention. See the cool poster above.  This will be our seventh year in attendance and there is SO MUCH going on this year, it is incredible.  What with having two tables to showcase all our new pulp titles, a secret premium “free” to any one who picks up two of our books, the Pulp Factory Awards on Friday night and the inauguration of New Pulp Sunday with panels and author readings.  Trust me pulp fans, this is one show you need to start planning on attending right now.  We so hope to see many of our Loyal Airmen there.

Speaking of Author signings and readings, Airship 27 Productions' own Terrence McCauley realized a truly wonderful week this past week when he was the guest author at the Mysterious Book Shop in New York City.  Terrence was there to talk about and sign copies of his very first novel, a fantastic crime thriller called PROHIBITION that we released last December to rousing, critical applause.  A native New Yorker, Terrence's tale details the Irish Mob in Hell's Kitchen back in the 1930s.  Also note, Terrence will be attending Windy City in April and be our guest at the Airship 27 tables.  On Saturday he'll be with us for one hour in the afternoon selling and signing copies of PROHIBITION, then on Sunday he'll be a major part of the fun that is New Pulp Sunday, joining in on both the panels and readings.  Terrence is a super great guy and just another reason you should come to the con.

And finally, on the comic front, you may recall the Air Chief mentioned having just finished writing the script to what will eventually become issue # 11 of  MR. JIGSAW – Man of a Thousand Parts.  We sent off the script to artist co-creator Gary Kato and hopefully he'll be starting on the artwork in another few weeks.  With fingers crossed we'll have this new issue by summer.

In the meanwhile, after posting this news on our Mr. Jigsaw Facebook page, we put out a plea for any artist on the site to do up a pin-up of our loveable break-apart-hero and within a day, Geoff Isalengend turned the above piece which we love.  We are hoping others will follow suit and once we've gotten a half dozen or so, we'll publish them as an extra bonus section in a future issue of the comic.  You know, you just can't get enough Jiggy.

Been watching the Red Sox on MLB cable station in a few of their exhibition and although much to early to get a real feel for this new team make-up, we've enjoyed these little exhibition outings and as ever have high hopes our beloved Sox can get back to their winning ways this seasons.  As we said, hope does spring eternal. Thanks ever for stopping by and we'll see you back here in seven.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, we've got some very cool things to share with all of you this week. So let's kick it off with the announcement of our second title of of the year.

The Air Chief wonders how many of you remember those dorky comic titles that appeared during the 1960s from second tier outfits like Dell and Gold Key?  They were really odd-duck heroes with weird powers who were generally battling the Soviets.  Remember in the 60s we were right smack dab in the middle of the Cold War and the Red Menace was a common threat in movies, on TV and again, in comics.  Anyway, last year a group of our pulp writing colleagues got together and wondered if we could create our own bogus 60s comic title, then as an homage to all of them, do a collection of prose stories featuring that character. The end result was Alex Conroy, code-name GHOST BOY, who works for a secret government agency known as S.O.S. (Scientific Office of Security) and his best pal is an 8 foot tall robot called P.O.P.S.  Then, while our writers, Terry Alexander, Micah Harris and Andrew Salmon start writing up some very exciting Ghost Boy adventures, the Air Chief convinced his long time comic-artist pal, Gary Kato, to illustrate a 9 pg comic strip “origin” story that actually appears in the beginning of this first volume.  Gary also drew all the interior illustrations.  That gorgeous cover was painted by the super talented Laura Givens of Denver.  The book is now on-sale at Amazon, on Kindle and at our Airship 27 Productions website accessed by clicking on to the dirigible logo to the upper left of this column.  We hope you'll give GHOST BOY a try.

                    
One of the first true pulp stories the Air Chief ever wrote was “Miss Fury in Vermont,” which appeared long, long ago in a little seen anthology featuring all female lead characters.  Our hero, was half Japanese (her father) and Norwegian (her mother, a tall blonde former Olympian) resulting in a beautiful, tall Eurasian with jet lack hair. We had hopes of someday doing more of her adventures but time just got away from us and that never happened.  Then last year our pal, Tommy Hancock, offered to re-publish that story in a issue of his monthly magazine, Pro Se Presents.  Well, its now available at Amazon, again go find Pro Se Presents # 17.  (Cover image above.) The illustration above is of Fury and her werewolf companion which was sadly never used before and we've since forgotten the name of the artist.  It's really a nice piece of art.

                    
Finally we are going to leave you this week with a really nice Sneak Peek at another of our pulp books now in production. As most of you Loyal Airmen will recall, last year we released the first volume in our new series, SINBAD – The New Voyages.  That book featured a cover by Bryan Fowler and interiors by Ralf van der Hoeven and is still available at Amazon and on our website.  Well, we've had the stories assembled for the second book for some time now and last week we recruited a talented young artist named Steve Wilcox to do the interiors for this second book.  That's one of his sketches of our hero above.  We're thrilled to have Steve on board and we've recently been in talks with an exciting new painter who is very interested in doing the cover painting for this book.  Stay tuned, more as things develop.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  As we write this, snow is blanketing most of Colorado and points east of us. Sort of a late winter storm. Winter isn't quite over yet, though our beloved Red Sox play their first Spring Training game Saturday morning in Fort Myers, Florida.  Wahooo.  We can't wait for the new Baseball season to get started.  Till next week, stay warm.

Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, we're playing a bit of catch-up this morning as we were hoping to preview a new Airship 27 Productions title this week but alas things got away from us. Hopefully we'll have everything squared away by next week's Flight Log and can wow you then.  Chuckle.

One of the Air Chief's most popular pulp creations is Brother Bones – The Undead Avenger as seen above in a gorgeous illustration by Rob Davis.  To date we've put out one collection of his adventures in the fictional west coast city of Cape Noire which included seven stories.  At present the Air Chief is writing new adventures that will fill a second volume and as of yesterday we've reached the half way mark.  Last year we wrote to short Brother Bones tales that were published by Tommy Hancock's Pro Se Productions; The Butcher's Festival and The Bruiser From Bavaria.  Yesterday, after two weeks of hammering away at this old PC, we wrapped up perhaps the longest Bones tale ever, The Plastic Army.  Do a quick tally, we now have over 35,000 words of new Bones stories.  Our goal for each book is 60,000, so we've crossed the half-way mark.  Hopefully as the year roles on, the Air Chief will be able to tap his muse a few more times and get a few others on paper to reach that goal and have a second anthology ready.

Note, there is also a full length Brother Bones novel in the works by a super talented writer named Roman Leary. Stay tuned, as that particular book should be coming your way in a few more months.  Fingers crossed.

Oh, and if you are new to these pages, there is a one shot Brother Bones comic still available from (www.IndyPlanet.com) – written by the Air Chief with art by John Polacek.  Also there will be a new 7 pg Brother Bones comic strip featured in the anthology book ALL STAR PULP COMICS # 2, again coming later this year.  As we said, this is going to be his year.

Having wrapped up a long (18,000 words) Brother Bones pulp story, what's up next on the Air Chief's agenda? Well, it's high time we got to writing Mr.Jigsaw Man of a Thousands Part issue #11.  Ten came out nearly a year ago and our Jiggy fans have been rightly frustrated in the long delay between issues.  So rest easy, we've got a fun idea for the new issue and again, we start writing it today. 

Busy, busy, busy. It truly never stops.  To which we say, thank you God.  The alternative to being too busy….is being bored with nothing to do.  Will pass on that.  As ever thanks for stopping by and we'll see you back here in next Friday.

Ron – Over & Out!

Well, Loyal Airmen, the Football Super Bowl has come and gone.  We trust those of you who are fans of the sport truly enjoyed what was a really tense and close contest.  Sincerely, we congratulate the Baltimore Ravens on their second Super Bowl Championship.  But honestly, we are happy to see their season done as the Air Chief is diehard baseball fan and as most of you are aware, a loyal member of Red Sox Nation. What with a new, enthusiastic John Farrell as the manager this year, one can only hope the team will put their last two lackluster seasons far behind them and return to their winning ways.

Pitchers report to the new Red Sox sports center in Ft. Myers, Florida this coming Monday, Feb. 11.  Positions players arrive three days later on the 14th.  Loyal Airmen, your Air Chief is truly ready for some baseball.

                    
On the pulp side of things, the cover photo above popped up in our e-mail this afternoon and we were thrilled.  About a year ago, writer Kane Gilmour and artist Scott P. Vaughn created an internet web comic strip called WARBIRDS OF MARS (go google it after reading this…you'll be glad you did).  The idea was that some time during World War II, Martians invaded Earth and joined forces with the Nazis. With their advanced alien technology, the Third Reich and the Martians invaded America and took over nearly half of it.  But of course American military forces did not give up the fight and the strip is all about their continued battle with masked secret agents, brave fighter pilots and lovely femme fatales all fighting to preserve the USA and defeat the bad guys.

The Air Chief, upon discovering this webstrip became an instant fan and began telling all his friends about it. Eventually we began an exchange of letters with the creators.  We learned they were planning on doing a prose anthology featuring various writers all telling stories that take place in the world of WARBIRDS and they graciously invited us to contribute to this collection.  We totally jumped on that wagon and within weeks had whipped up something called “The Monsters of Adobe Wells.”  Scott & Kane approved it is one of the fifteen stories in the book, which they just announced today will be out in May.  The great cover above is by Scott and its a humdinger, just like all his work on the strip every week.  We are truly excited to be a part of this project and we'll let you know when you can go out and pick up a copy.

Finally, the big news this week was the announcement of the PULP ARK AWARDS Nominations.  The Air Chief was nominated for several pulps tales in the Best Short Story category and also for Best Writer, which is most humbling.  We thank everyone who supported us in these nominations.  But the most surprising category nod came in the Best Pulp Comic section as it had PRICE FOR THE ASKING there.  This is a private eye series created by the Air Chief and his pal, Bill Gladman.  We've put out two issues thus far, the first illustrated by artist Brian Latimer and the second (cover above) by Rob Davis.  To have this comic earn a nomination in these awards was truly an unexpected joy.  Voting ends March 15th at which time the winners will be announced and their awards handed out at this year's Pulp Ark Convention in Arkansas.  We congratulate all the nominees and wish everyone good luck in the voting.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen.  A final warning, Valentine's Day is almost here. Go out and get that special someone something that truly says, I love you!  Till next week,
Ron – Over & Out!

Greetings Loyal Airmen, here we are in February and most of you are probably scrambling around to find the right gift for your significant other in time for Saint Valentine's Day.  We certainly wish you all in the luck in the world with that. And do remember, the simple standards like a dozen red roses and a box of chocolates still do the trick in creating a little romantic magic.

                             
February is also Black History Month in which we applaud African Americans and their priceless contributions to our great country.  After the end of the Civil War, freed slaves would have had every right to pack up their few belongings and leave a country that had so cruelly mistreated and abused them for decades.  They didn't owe America anything.  But they did not go down that path of hatred and revenge, rather they rolled up their sleeves and proceeded to do their best in making this country grow and prosper.  One such freed slaves was Bass Reeves, a U.S. Deputy Marshal in the badlands of Oklahoma prior to its becoming a state. In the course of his thirty-two year career he became the most successful western lawman of all times.

For several years now the Air Chief and artist Rob Davis (who did the pin-up above colored by Anthony Lee) have been hoping to one day produce a full-blown graphic novel detailing the Life & Times of Bass Reeves. Sadly that opportunity has yet to afford itself as other priorities have kept both of us too busy to do such a project justice.  Still we continue to dream and hope that one day we will get it done.

                             
                                          Cover Art by Adam Shaw

Several months ago the Air Chief received an invitation from his friend and colleague, Tommy Hancock who manages Pro Se Production, another truly fine New Pulp Publisher.  Tommy had hooked up with writer/editor Gary Phillips to do a new pulp anthology that would feature all African American heroes.  Even though slavery was gone, racism continued to thrive in our country long after the end of the Civil War and was rampant in the 20s and 30s during the era of the pulps.  It is almost impossible to find any minority character in those stories and if you do, you'll find them depicted as being slow and shiftless.  Honestly, it is difficult to read these tales as those hateful stereotypes were so appalling.  So it is that the writers of the New Pulp Movement, good folks like Tommy and many others are doing their best to correct these injustices by producing great pulp tales with heroes of all races.

Tommy's new anthology, due out later this month, is titled BLACK PULP (that's the cover above sans design or logo) and has a truly all star cast of contributors to include an essay by Walter Mosley and stories by Joe R.Landsdale, Gary Phillips, Charles Saunders, Derrick Ferguson and many others.  And yes, there is one by the Air Chief called, “The Lawman.”  So if you've put two and two together, you know the Air Chief took this golden opportunity to finally write a Bass Reeves story.  It was both a thrill and honor to do so for this great collection.  We will let you all know when it is available and how to grab a copy.

                     
Meanwhile we at Airship 27 Productions are busy working on dozens of new and exciting titles as well.  One of these new anthologies, QUATERMAIN – The New Adventures – features Alan Quatermain, the turn of the century African big hunter created by novelist H. Ridder Haggard who appeared in several of Haggard's books to include the often times filmed, “King Solomon's Mines,” and “She.”  The book will feature two novellas, one by James Palmer and the other Aaron Smith.  Art Director Rob Davis whipped up a truly beautiful sketch which is going to be adapted/painted by artist Ingrid Hardy for the cover.  That sketch is above.  Ingrid has done several of our covers in the past, to include one of Sherlock Holmes; her most recent was the new Black Bat Mystery Vol II.  We can't wait to see her bring this image to colorful life.

And there you have it for our first Flight Log of Feb, Loyal Airmen.  As ever, thanks for stopping by and we'll see you right back here in seven days.
Ron – Over & Out!

Greeting Loyal Airmen, we've got some really cool bits to share with you this week, so let's jump right into them.

Our first Airship 27 Productions title of the year is now on sale!  SHERLOCK HOLMES – CONSULTING DETECTIVE is now on sale at Amazon, on Kindle and at (www.IndyPlanet.com) via our website which you can access by simply clicking on the airship dirigible logo to the upper left of this column.  This is the fourth year in a row we've kicked off the new year with a Sherlock Holmes title and its a tradition we hope to maintain for a long time to come. This particular series is by far the most successful we've ever produced and Sherlock Holmes around the world continue to want more.  This volume has five new tales of the Great Detective and Dr.Watson as written by Andrew Salmon, Brad Sinor, Aaron Smith, Bill Thinnes and Ian Watson. As ever our Art Director Rob Davis provides the interior illustrations and professional artist Chad Hardin provided that amazingly beautiful cover you see above.  So what are you waiting for, heading on over to Amazon and order up a copy. As ever, thanks so much for all your support.

Now for something totally different and a first for us at Airship 27 Productions.  In early May, Rob and the Air Chief will be guests at the Oklahoma Fiction Writers Inc. Conference.  We will be presenting two ninety minute workshops HOW TO MAKE A GRAPHIC NOVEL.  Naturally the Air Chief will be speaking about the scripting aspects and Rob will offer up his insights on how to interpret a script graphically.  We decided we would use our erotic horror novel, DAUGHTER OF DRACULA to illustrate the points we will be lecturing on .  At the time of the invitation we had agreed we would bring copies of the graphic novel to sell at the conference. Then upon reflection, we realized having a copy of the actual script the Air Chief wrote available to writers wanting to learn the process would be an invaluable tool as well. Thus Rob proceed to take my original script, dress it up design-wise, ad a few panels throughout as illustrations and viola, last week we produced DAUGHTER OF DRACULA – The Script.  See the very neat cover above. The book is available for sale now at Amazon.  Finally, any of you Loyal Airman living near Oklahoma City who might want to learn more about the conference and possibly attend, here is the link to their website, show dates etc.

Official OWFI page (http://www.owfi.org/)
The 2013 OWFI Conference May 2-4
Embassy Suites Norman
2501 Conference Drive
Tel (1-405-364-8040)

We be great to see some Loyal Airmen at this wonderful event.  Rob and the Air Chief are really excited about this.

                                        
                                               WRITER – PRODUCER – J.J. ABRAMS

Finally, we are going to close out this week's Flight Log with a truly exciting piece of news that truly made us smile.  One of favorite Hollywood writer-producers is J.J. Abrams.  The Air Chief can't say enough about this creative individual responsible for some  of our favorite TV series from ALIAS, to LOST, FRINGE and PERSON OF INTEREST.  For the past four and a half years, FRINGE was our all time favorite sci-fi series and we were blown away by last week's two-hour finale. It was magnificent writing as it has been from day one.

Two years ago Abrams again impressed us greatly by rebooting the tired old Star Trek franchise at the movies and making it relevant and fun once again.  This coming May his second entry into this franchise will come out and we can't wait to see it.

So it has just been announced that Abrams has signed on to write/direct the brand new 7th STAR WARS movie for Disney Films which recently acquired all of Lucas Film and its Industrial Light & Magic special effects house.  Disney had then announced they wanted a new Star Wars film out in 2015 and began the hunt for a director. And now it is official, Abrams will be at the helm of this eagerly anticipated movie.  Which is truly amazing as now he is the man controlling the destines of two of the most recognizable sci-fi franchises in the history of sci-fi cinema, both Star Trek and Star Wars.  The Air Chief can only imagine the buzz this will create throughout fandom and the hype-machine that will start to go into hyper-drive starting now as to what this new Star Wars movie will be all about.  Hang it there Loyal Airmen, we are in for a truly amazing ride.

And there you have it for this week, Loyal Airmen. As ever thanks for stopping by and for supporting our efforts.  Take care and stay warm.
Ron – Over & Out!