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!