Greeting loyal, airmen.  After a truly hectic, all out week (as reported in our last journal entry) the past seven days have returned us to a semblance of normalcy and routine.  Much to our satisfaction. The new leaf vacuum that I mentioned last week is working like a dream and the yard has never looked better.  Which I'd have had one of these years ago.  Speaking of Fall Classics, here we are in the midst of Baseball's World Series and our beloved Red Sox are not there.  After a truly valiant seven game effort, the Walking Wounded (and I've come to call them this season) just didn't have enough gas left to defeat the powerhouse Tampa Rays.  So our applause to the Rays for a great series and well deserved American League Championship Pennant.  As for the Sox, we also applaud their winning season and some truly amazing baseball memories.   For them its time to take the winter off, heal and relax.  As the old baseball goes, “Wait till next year!”

On the home front, your old Air Chief is gearing up to make a few personal appearances at the start of next month.  On Tuesday, 11th Nov.  (Veteran's Day) I will be doing my first ever bookstore signing at the Barnes & Nobles in Manchester, N.H.   Their address is 1741 So.Willow St.  This was all arranged by my brother-in-law, Norman Cormier.  Norm is the football coach at Raymond High School and this will be part of a bookfair fund raiser to help his sports program.  Folks can pick up a voucher and when making purchases that day, Barnes & Noble will donate a portion of each sale to that sports program.  So it's a real worthy cause.  I will be there at 3 P.M and am scheduled to do a reading, followed by an answer and question period and the actual signing of whatever of my pulp books they will have on hand.  At this point, I don't even know.  The Barnes & Nobles event planner informed me they would be ordering several of my Airship 27 Prod. pulp titles for the signing.  So I really have no clue which of my books they will have there.   Your old Air Chief is has done tons of comic book conventions in the past 35 years, but this will be my first book signing, so I'm a wee bit excited. Ha.  And I sure hope lots of you loyal airmen in the area will be able to make it down.  Should any of you desire copies of the voucher above, simply drop me an e-mail and I'll get them off to you pronto.

Six days after the Barnes & Nobles signing, I will be one of dozens of comic book creators appearing at the Portsmouth Comic Book Show to be held at the Best Western Motel on Sunday 16th Nov.  That's located in the Portsmouth Traffic Circle and it looks to be one hell of a great show.  Promoter, and good pal, Ralph DiBernardo has really lined up lots of great comic book talent to include two of my personal favorite artists, Scott Wegener who does Atomic Robot and Craig Rousseau of the Perhapnauts.  And please, don't fret that my name isn't on that poster.  Ralph truly does have so many guests, he simply could not put them all up and still have a visually decent poster to show off.  This is really going to be a great show.  I plan on having copies of my new Brother Bones comic and Daughter of Dracula (for adults only) graphic novel on hand, plus many of my Airship 27 pulp novels.   And don't forget, anyone who comes to my table wearing any Airship 27 gear (from our on-line shop…see icon above to left), they will get any one item for half price.  Just my way of saying thanks for your support.  We also have Free Passes to this show, so if any of you would like some, again, drop me a letter quick and I'll get them off to you.

So there you have my calendar of personal appearances for Nov.  Of course between now and then we've still got Halloween coming up, one of my favorite holidays.  Then within days of Halloween comes the British version, Guy Fawkes Day, on Nov.5th.  Which you knowledgeable airmen will know is my birthday and I'll turn 62 years young!  Yahoo. Can't wait to see what the next 62 will bring!

Take care, have a great week one and all.
Ron – Over & Out.