Greetings Loyal Airmen, we have a truly mixed bag of news for you all this week.  So much so we're reminded of the Clint Eastwood spaghetti wester, “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly.”  Only we've opted to entitled ours, “The Goof, the Silly and the Audio.”  And as much as it hurts, we really need to begin with the Big Goof and get it out of the way.

Two weeks ago we were thrilled to announce the release of our newest Mr. Jigsaw Man of a Thousand Parts.  We had the book at Pulp Fest and sold a few copies there.  Sadly, we never actually looked through a copy and it was only after we came back home that we released there had been a mix-up at the printers and several of the pages were printed out of order.  So when you opened the cover to start reading, you were in fact reading page # 2.  This is bad enough as is, but if you'll recall this particular issue had a time-travel story and it required compete attention to each and ever page.  Talk about being bummed out.  Rob Davis quickly went back to the printers on-line and corrected the files and as of now, any copies you do purchase at (www.IndyPlanet.com) are all good copies.  But if you were unfortunate enough to grab one of those earlier bad copies, we will make it good for you.  Simply drop us an e-mail with your mailing address and tell us on which page in the book the first page actually appears.  Do that and we will send a brand new, good copy of the issue. You may keep the mistake-book.  Who knows, it might be a collector's item some day.

                                           
                                                                 ART BY JIM GALLO
Now for the silly fun, check out the very cool illustration above.  As most of you know, the Air Chief hosts a weekly internet podcast called ZONE 4 along with pals Brant Fowler, Gordon Dymowski and John Wilson. On this particular show we are referred to as Captain Ron.  Well, out of the blue, one of our loyal listeners, while enjoying the show, took out his iPad and did up this digital portrait of us.  We were truly delighted when he posted it on the Zone 4 Facebook page and have shared it with our family and friends.  Valerie thought it was a pure hoot.  Now tell me we don't look ready for adventure.  Ha.

                                        
 
Speaking of adventure, we are thrilled to announced our newest pulp book, SINBAD – The New Voyages Vol II.  The success of Volume I last year was enough encouragement for us to put together this follow up book with three more new tales of this classic hero done in the Ray Harryhausen fashion.  Our Sinbad is black with an international crew we think you'll love.  This volume contains a long novella by Ed Erdelac and two short stories, one by Erwin K.Roberts and the other by Shelby Vick.  It is now on sale at Amazon in both hard copy and as a digital e-book for their Kindle. We hope you'll give it a look see.

And lastly we leave with the really big news of the past week.  We are doing a follow up audio-book with the super folks at Dynamic Ram Audio.  Having received some wonderful reviews of our first Captain Hazzard audio book, “Python Men of the Lost City,” on sale at (www.Audible.com) one of the largest providers of audio book on the internet, plus our respective websites.  Dynamic Audios Chief, Sound Engineer Chris Barnes agreed it was time to do a recording of the second book in the series, “The Citadel of Fear,” which we co-wrote with pal Martin Powell.  The best part of all this was securing the services of the super talented voice actor, Joe Stofko, of Connecticut.  Joe is a veteran theater actor and “Python Men of the Lost City” was his first ever audio book reading and he totally nailed it.  Folks who have it rave about his ability to convey action and suspense throughout.  We've just heard Chapter 1 of “Citadel of Fear” and couldn't be any happier.  We'll let you know when it is done and available for sale.

And there you have it for another week, Loyal Airmen, with its usual ups and downs.  As a famous person once said, every time a positive soul has to take a step backwards, they merely shrug and do the Cha Cha.
We think that pretty much sums it all about.  Take care and we'll see you back here next week.
Ron Over & Out!