Jack Tunney's Blog, page 25
July 16, 2014
COMING SOON ~ FIGHT CARD: PUSH
FIGHT CARD: PUSH
NATHAN WALPOW
WRITING AS
JACK TUNNEY
COMING AUGUST 2014
July 10, 2014
COMING SOON: THE SECOND FIGHT CARD CHARITY ANTHOLOGY
COMING SOON: THE SECOND
FIGHT CARD CHARITY ANTHOLOGY
FIGHT CARD PRESENTS:
BATTLING MAHONEY & OTHER STORIES
Fight Card is excited to publish the collection you now hold in your hands – our second Fight Card charity anthology – Fight Card Presents: Battling Mahoney and Other Stories. This time we’ve upped the ante from ten rounds of two-fisted fight fiction to a full fifteen rounds – with 100% of the proceeds going to help the family of western writing legend, the late Jory Sherman – a mentor and friend to so many in the literary community.
Writers helping writers as part of the Fight Card publishing collective.
Battling Mahoney and Other Stories is filled with action delivered by many of Fight Card’s top contributors. Legendary pulp writer Len Levinson provides the title story – featuring characters from his popular The Sergeant series of WWII thrillers. Willis Gordon sets the mood with his extensive essay, On Boxing, and Fight Card favorite James Hopwood (Fight Card: King of the Outback and Fight Card: Rumble in the Jungle) gives us a Hollywood Hits tale featuring Abbott & Costello along with The Brown Bomber himself, Joe Louis.
Robert E. Howard scholar Mark Finn (Fight Card: The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey) gives us another top notch ‘weird boxing’ tale, featuring Sailor Tom Sharkey & the Electric Gorilla. Bowie V. Ibarra returns to the Fight Card team with his prose singing The Song of the Cornerman, while Michael Zimmerman gives us one of the hardest hitting stories in the collection, The Broken Man.
New writers climbing into the ring with Fight Card include Nik Morton (Cowboy in the Ring), Marc Cameron (Rock, Paper, Scissors), Marcia Ward (Bloodied Leather), Clay More (Heat of Battle), and Chuck Tyrell (Fight Day in Diablo).
We are also thrilled to include stories from Loren D. Estleman and James Reasoner, both writers who are held in the highest regard by their peers and readers.
This new anthology also sports another beautiful cover from Fight Card’s resident artist/illustrator, the brilliant and talented Carl Yonder (Pirate Eye).
It’s all happening in Fight Card Presents: Battling Mahoney and Other Stories…
So, keep calm and keep your guard up…
July 9, 2014
FIGHT CARD UPDATE: JULY 2014
FIGHT CARD UPDATE: JULY 2014
Our latest Fight Card entry has just hit the virtual bookshelves…Bridgeport Brawler is from Dave White writing as Jack Tunney. The cover is by our man down under, David Foster, and the ad banners are generously provided by Bobby Nash…
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
Chicago, 1953…Patrick ‘The Hammer’ White – the Bridgeport Brawler – is on top of the world. He is the current heavyweight champion confidently getting ready to defend his crown. All the training from father Tim at St Vincent’s orphanage has come full circle, and Pat isn’t figuring on being toppled from the championship mountain anytime soon.
Having seen his shares of ups-and-downs, Pat believes the ‘downs’ are behind him. However, he has forgotten boxing’s dark side. When mob boss Carmen Amello squeezes Pat’s trainer into forcing the champ to take a dive, the ‘downs’ come back with a vengeance.
In the aftermath of disaster, with only bad choices in front of him, the Bridgeport Brawler is going to have to dig deep if he is ever going to hammer his way back to the top…
Bridgeport Brawler is another two-fisted Fight Card tale …
In other news, our second Fight Card charity anthology, Battling Mahoney and Other Stories, is coming together nicely for an August publication. This time out its 15 rounds of fight fiction to aid the family of the late Jory Sherman.
Fight Card team member Jeremy L.C. Jones has arranged for Fight Card to be the focus of a college marketing project turning four marketing hungry whiz kids loose on trying to find ways to expand Fight Card’s sales and audience. Jeremy and I had our first meeting with the group today and I am excited to see their progress over the next few weeks.
I have been in touch with those of you who have not seen your books arrive in paperback yet. As you know, we are making every effort to put the finishing touches on the files and covers needed for you to upload on CreateSpace.
Next month, a wrestling tale – Fight Card: Push – From Nathan Walpow writing as Jack Tunney…
Until then…Keep Punching
FIGHTING FOR HONOR
FIGHTING FOR HONOR
DAVE WHITE ON WRITING
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
For me, the chance to write for Fight Card was an honor. I am a big fan and have read most Fight Card books in the series. I have been writing seriously for a few years in the new pulp field – mostly around the 10,000 word mark, so tackling 25,000 words was something new. However, I was excited by the challenge. I based the main character in Bridgeport Brawler on my pops, who I lost a few years back.
Growing up I was always in front of the television with my dad and my uncle Chili. Inevitably, there was wrestling or boxing on the screen. Obviously, back in the day, there wasn’t pay per view. However, with my uncle living right next door, we were either over there or at our house when an event took place. Admittedly, I didn’t have the grasp of the names and stuff back then – I just enjoyed watching the stuff with pops and my uncle.
Names like Dick the Bruiser, Crusher Creel, and Pepper Gomez were in many family conversations, as well as Ali and Frazer and George Foreman. My dad had taken martial arts as a kid as well as boxed. So, growing up he would spend time teaching me different techniques.
I later got into the martial arts and loved it. Life moves us in different ways, but even after getting married and having kids, I still loved heading over to my uncle’s and watching fights with him and Pops. The names had changed, but the joy of watching with the two of them never did.
There was wagering, always friendly – well usually. But they were both intense fans and, as such, there was always a charge in the air whenever they sat in front of the TV to watch boxing. This, of course, didn’t make my mom or aunt happy, so they usually used those nights to not be around the house.
When I got out of high school, I took up martial arts pretty intensely and even competed in a few matches. Pops was always there to watch. He was also always eager to spar with me for practice.
Now this may seem like bragging, but it really isn’t. I got pretty good at martial arts, and while my dad had not been involved in the sport or boxing for some 20 years, I still couldn’t touch him half the time. More times than not it was me ending up on my backside.
Pops was just a natural. Growing up in the city, he was in more than his fair share of brawls. I always heard the stories. And, after all the years of sparing and him teaching me – as he called it – I have no doubt he could have turned pro and done decently in the ring, if not great.
The Bridgeport Brawler puts my Pops in to that scenario. He is the inspiration for the main character, and my uncle is featured as well. They are both gone now, and sorely missed. This book was a chance for me to relive some of the memories.
AVAILABLE NOW ~ FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
AVAILABLE NOW!
DAVID WHITE
WRITING AS
JACK TUNNEY
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRALWER
Chicago, 1953…Patrick ‘The Hammer’ White – the Bridgeport Brawler – is on top of the world. He is the current heavyweight champion confidently getting ready to defend his crown. All the training from father Tim at St Vincent’s orphanage has come full circle, and Pat isn’t figuring on being toppled from the championship mountain anytime soon.
Having seen his shares of ups-and-downs, Pat believes the ‘downs’ are behind him. However, he has forgotten boxing’s dark side. When mob boss Carmen Amello squeezes Pat’s trainer into forcing the champ to take a dive, the ‘downs’ come back with a vengeance.
In the aftermath of disaster, with only bad choices in front of him, the Bridgeport Brawler is going to have to dig deep if he is ever going to hammer his way back to the top…
Bridgeport Brawler is another two-fisted Fight Card tale …
June 24, 2014
COMING SOON ~ FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRAWLER
COMING IN JULY 2014!
DAVID WHITE
WRITING AS
JACK TUNNEY
FIGHT CARD: BRIDGEPORT BRALWER
Chicago, 1953…Patrick ‘The Hammer’ White – the Bridgeport Brawler – is on top of the world. He is the current heavyweight champion confidently getting ready to defend his crown. All the training from father Tim at St Vincent’s orphanage has come full circle, and Pat isn’t figuring on being toppled from the championship mountain anytime soon.
Having seen his shares of ups-and-downs, Pat believes the ‘downs’ are behind him. However, he has forgotten boxing’s dark side. When mob boss Carmen Amello squeezes Pat’s trainer into forcing the champ to take a dive, the ‘downs’ come back with a vengeance.
In the aftermath of disaster, with only bad choices in front of him, the Bridgeport Brawler is going to have to dig deep if he is ever going to hammer his way back to the top…
Bridgeport Brawler is another two-fisted Fight Card tale …
June 23, 2014
AVAILABLE NOW ~ 3 PUNCH COMBO!
AVAILABLE NOW ~ 3 PUNCH COMBO!
A TRIO OF TWO-FISTED FIGHT CARD TALES
FROM ACCLAIMED AUTHOR PAUL BISHOP
FELONY FISTS ~ LAPD cop Patrick ‘Felony’ Flynn has a new assignment – Take down gangster Mickey Cohen’s heavyweight contender punch by punch…
SWAMP WALLOPER ~ Patrick ‘Felony’ Flynn and his LAPD cop partner, Tombstone Jones, are up to their necks in alligators as they punch their way through the New Orleans boxing underground to catch a sadistic killer…
THE CHICAGO PUNCH ~ Crime reporter Nick Lassiter is renowned for his two-fisted prose. Now, chasing a story of a good boxer gone bad, Nick is about to find himself on the receiving end of the Chicago punch…
June 11, 2014
FIGHT CARD UPDATE: JUNE 2014
FIGHT CARD UPDATE: JUNE 2014
This month’s Fight Card release, The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey (Mark Finn writing as Jack Tunney) is making its debut in time for the Robert E. Howard Days gathering in Cross Plains, TX. This is most appropriate as author Mark Finn is a recognized Howard scholar and Sailor Tom Sharkey is the spiritual cousin of Howard’s character, Sailor Steve Costigan.
The ‘weird boxing’ tales in the collection are complemented by a fantastic cover from Carl Yonder.
FIGHT CARD: THE ADVENTURES OF SAILOR TOM SHARKEY!
The Best Weird, Historical, Humorous, Boxing Stories You’ll Ever Read!
He was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers to enter the legendary squared circle during the Golden Age of Boxing. Standing a mere 5’ 8”, Sailor Tom Sharkey was one of boxing’s most feared opponents…Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, and Jim Jeffries all agreed he was their fiercest opponent and gave them their toughest fights. A colorful boxer both in the ring and out, he retired in 1904 after several legendary and controversial failed attempts to win the championship belt.
That’s the story you know – But it’s not the end of Sharkey’s story – not by a long shot…In the tradition of Robert E. Howard’s humorous Sailor Steve Costigan boxing tales, this action-packed collection of rowdy, bawdy, burlesque, tall Texas tall feature Sailor Tom Sharkey’s adventures after he hung up his professional gloves.
Thrill to Sharkey’s brush with Hollywood’s “It” Girl, Clara Bow…Get chills as Sharkey and Kid McCoy faces down a maniacal bandit…Feel the heat as Sharkey rides the rails with Jim Jeffries and the Vaudeville Carnival into a clashes with a mad scientists and mummified menaces…Watch as Sharkey plays Santa Claus to a bunch of Tammany Hall orphans and end up with a tiger by the tail – literally – and much more!
These are the Untold Tales of the Wildest Tale-Teller of Boxing’s Golden Age!
Any mentions in your blogs or on your social networking sites are always appreciated.
Coming up on the Fight Card schedule, we have Bridgeport Brawler from Dave White, Push from Nathan Walpow, Guns of November from Joseph Grant, Fight River from Tommy Hancock, Bareknuckle Barbarian from Teel James Glenn, Job Girl from Jason Chirevas, a second Sherlock Holmes tale from Andrew Salmon, and a currently untitled entry from Tim Tessler.
Also, our second Fight Card Presents charity anthology will debut in August …
Till next month … Keep punching …
June 10, 2014
AVAILABLE NOW ~ FIGHT CARD: THE ADVENTURES OF SAILOR TOM SHARKEY!
AVAILABLE NOW
FIGHT CARD:
THE ADVENTURES OF SAILOR TOM SHARKEY!
Debuting in paperback and e-book in time to celebrate Robert E. Howard Days in Cross Plains, TX…Fight Card: The Adventures of Sailor Tom Sharkey…Spiritual cousin to R.E.H.’s Sailor Steve Costigan … Mark Finn writing as Jack Tunney…A FANTASTIC collection of ‘weird boxing’ stories…
FIGHT CARD: THE ADVENTURES OF SAILOR TOM SHARKEY!
The Best Weird, Historical, Humorous, Boxing Stories You’ll Ever Read!
He was one of the greatest heavyweight boxers to enter the legendary squared circle during the Golden Age of Boxing. Standing a mere 5’ 8”, Sailor Tom Sharkey was one of boxing’s most feared opponents…Gentleman Jim Corbett, Bob Fitzsimmons, Kid McCoy, and Jim Jeffries all agreed he was their fiercest opponent and gave them their toughest fights. A colorful boxer both in the ring and out, he retired in 1904 after several legendary and controversial failed attempts to win the championship belt.
That’s the story you know – But it’s not the end of Sharkey’s story – not by a long shot…In the tradition of Robert E. Howard’s humorous Sailor Steve Costigan boxing tales, this action-packed collection of rowdy, bawdy, burlesque, tall Texas tall feature Sailor Tom Sharkey’s adventures after he hung up his professional gloves.
Thrill to Sharkey’s brush with Hollywood’s “It” Girl, Clara Bow…Get chills as Sharkey and Kid McCoy faces down a maniacal bandit…Feel the heat as Sharkey rides the rails with Jim Jeffries and the Vaudeville Carnival into a clashes with a mad scientists and mummified menaces…Watch as Sharkey plays Santa Claus to a bunch of Tammany Hall orphans and end up with a tiger by the tail – literally – and much more!
These are the Untold Tales of the Wildest Tale-Teller of Boxing’s Golden Age!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Mark Finn is an author, actor, essayist, and playwright. He is over forty and has no tattoos. With his long-suffering wife, far too many books, and an affable American bull terrier named Sonya, he lives in North Texas atop an old movie theater.
COVER BY CARL YONDER
June 9, 2014
FIGHT CARD CHARITY ANTHOLOGY
FIGHT CARD CHARITY ANTHOLOGY
NOW AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK AND E-BOOK …
The Fight Card team is excited to announce the release of our first ever Fight Card CHARITY anthology. Part of the Fight Card mandate as an author’s cooperative is to give back to our community. This debut project, Fight Card Presents: Iron Head & Other Stories – Ten Rounds of Fight Fiction for Charity, is the first step. Three other charity anthologies will follow during the course of 2014. If you would like to provide a story, please contact either myself or Jeremy L. C. Jones.
One hundred percent of all royalties from these anthologies will go directly to an author-in-need or a literacy charity. Royalties from our debut charity anthology will go directly to ailing western writer JORY SHERMAN, whose family has been financially devastated by medical bills related to Jory’s illness. Jory is a revered writer known primarily for his award winning westerns, but has also written in many other genres. He has also been a mentor and good friend to many other writers.
Fight Card Presents: Iron Head & Other Stories is a 60,000 word anthology of two-fisted action by authors from multiple genres, There’s Jack Badelaire, James Scott Bell, Mark Finn, Ed Greenwood, James Hopwood, Bowie V. Ibarra, Ryan McFadden, Troy Smith, Matthew Pizzolato, and Jory Sherman writing the title story. There’s also a foreword by Paul Bishop, an introduction by Jeremy L.C. Jones, and a cover by Carl Yonder.
It is particularly important to help us spread the word about this anthology via blogs and social networks. Please help us make a difference A few dollars and a few punches at a time!
FIGHT CARD PRESENTS: IRON HEAD & OTHER STORIES
Fight Card Presents: Iron Head & Other Stories is the first in a series of charity anthologies from the Fight Card authors cooperative – a writers community featuring many of today’s finest fictioneers, including Jory Sherman, Ryan McFadden, Mark Finn, Troy D. Smith, Ed Greenwood, Jack Badelaire, James Scott Bell, James Hopwood, Bowie V. Ibarra, and Matthew Pizzolato.
Compiled by Paul Bishop and Jeremy L. C. Jones, 100% of the proceeds from these anthologies will go directly to an author-in-need (in this case, revered western writer Jory Sherman) or a literacy charity. Words on paper are the life blood of a writer. The writers in this volume were willing to bleed in order to give a transfusion to one of their own – and then continue to bleed to give a transfusion to literacy charities in support of that most precious of commodities … readers. They are true fighters, every one …
Much more coming from Fight Card in 2014 … So, hang on and … Keep punching!
