Greetings Loyal Airmen, as indicated last week, this Flight Log is going up a day early as later tonight I'll be flying off to Chicago and the Windy City Paper & Pulp Show.  More about that in a minute, first a couple of really cool things to report.

This week Airship 27 Productions released its second title of 2011, the science fiction thriller, THE DARK LAND by Andrew Salmon.  This is a terrific, action packed story of a future world decimated by one natural disaster after another.   With almost half the world's population gone, scientist turn to cloning to help repopulate humanity. One of these is C-Peter Reilley, a Vancouver detective.  When clones are bred, the memories of the originals are wiped clean so they can begin fresh and unencumbered by any painful images of their past lives.  Not so for Reilley.  Soon after being “birthed” fully grown, he discovers he does have all the memories of the original Peter Reilley.  And that's just the beginning.  Andrew's book is a great read. It features a gorgeous cover by Mark Maddox and nine interior illustrations by Victor Dandridge and Rob Davis handling the overall design works.  We hope you'll check it out.  Now available at both our on-line show and digital store and soon to be available at Amazon and other popular book distributors.

Two years ago an outfit called Pulp Work Press put out a dandy anthology entitled HOW THE WEST WAS WEIRD.  The Air Chief picked up a copy and thought it was much fun.  So naturally we were thrilled when editor Russ Anderson invited us to contribute a story to the sequel volume, the cover you above here.  As it turned out we had an unfinished western we had started writing over ten years ago and for whatever reason, never finished.  So we dusted it off and completed the tale, called “The Yellow Dog.”  Russ graciously accepted it and it will in this new book which will be released the 1st of July.  Mark your calendars.   Plus the Air Chief, the book includes over twenty stories by such gifted pulp amigos as Derrick Ferguson, Thomas Dejay, Barry Reese, Bobby Nash, Tommy Hancock and many, many more.

And finally here is a photo of the new statues for the 2010 Pulp Factory Awards which Rob and the Air Chief will be presenting Saturday night to the winners of the Best Pulp Novel, Best Pulp Short Story, Best Pulp Cover and Best Interior Illustrations for 2010.  This year's nominations from which the final ballot was culled featured twenty eight writers, twenty eight artists and fifteen pulp publishers.  That's four more publishers then last year.
Tell me we are not in the midst of a wonderful Pulp Renaissance.  On Sunday morning the Official Press Release naming the winners will go out across the internet, at Facebook and everywhere else.  And of course we'll list them here next week when we get back to Hangar 27.

That's it Loyal Airmen, got to go finish packing. As ever thanks for stopping by and have a great week.
Ron – Over & Out!!