Jack Tunney's Blog, page 35
September 18, 2013
BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN
BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN
COMING THIS THURSDAY … 7 AM PACIFIC … 10 AM EASTERN …
Fight Card’s newest author and femme fatale, Carol Malone, talks Fight Card Romance with the Book Talk With Ginger Dawn podcast …
This week on Book Talk with Ginger Dawn get ready to grab your boxing gloves and step into the ring!
Mob fixed fights, Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale , Chicago where “the thick air hung heavy with the scent of stale cigarette smoke and fermenting beer.” Ka Powie! Today I have two heavyweight champions in the ring. Authors Carol Malone and Paul Bishop allow me to be their cornerman as we knockout some of those tough questions on the newest book in the Fight Card series…
FIGHT CARD ROMANCE: LADIES NIGHT! IT’S NO PALOOKA!
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WRITERS AND FIGHTERS
FIGHTERS AND WRITERS
THE BOOK LIFE NOW BLOG TAKES ON FIGHTER AND WRITERS WITH A LOOK AT THE WRITING OF FIGHT CARD MMA: WELCOME TO THE OCTAGON BY GERARD BRENNAN (WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY) …
I write. That’s a fact. You can find my stuff online or on bookshelves in some very select places. And yes, I do enjoy my booze, but I’m considered a light drinker in many circles. I don’t drink much for an Irish guy sums it up. My fighting is done in the form of sparring at a small local boxing club. I’m no pro, obviously. I’m don’t even consider myself good enough to be an amateur boxer. But I hold my own at our wee club and I know what it feels like to take a punch. Not bad for a guy in his thirties …
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WRITING AGAINST THE ROPES
WRITING AGAINST THE ROPES
THE BOOK LIFE NOW BLOG GETS AGAINST THE ROPES WITH FIGHT CARD’S TERRENCE MCCAULEY (WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY) …
Writing a prequel to a successful first novel can pin a writer against the ropes of his storyline … Why did I write Against The Ropes? The short answer is because Paul Bishop let me. I’ve been a fan of the Fight Card series from the beginning and had wanted to try my hand at writing for the series. I’d already covered Terry Quinn’s boxing career in passing in my other book Prohibition, which was written several years before the Fight Card series began. But since Quinn’s days in the ring play such an important role in which the character has become at the beginning of Prohibition, I’d always dreamed of being able to tell the story of the end of
his career in more detail …
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September 17, 2013
COMING SOON ~ FIGHT CARD: FRONT PAGE PALOOKA!
COMING SOON … THE LATEST FROM FIGHT CARD: FRONT PAGE PALOOKA BY ANTHONY VENUTOLO WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY … COVER BY DAVID FOSTER …
WHY FIGHT CARD ROMANCE?
WHY FIGHT CARD ROMANCE?
BOOK LIFE NOW PUTS FIGHT CARD ON THE ROPES … WHEN THE TOUGH, TWO-FISTED, PULPTASTIC, SERIES FIGHT CARD SOFTENS ITS EDGES THERE HAS TO BE A METHOD TO THE MADNESS …
Fight Card has its roots deep in the pulp genre – and so does romance. The love pulps flourished between the ‘20s and the ‘50s, often not only outselling all of the best remembered pulp genres, but often supporting the costs of those other pulps on romance’s broad shoulders …
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September 16, 2013
IN THE RING WITH THE BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN PODCAST
IN THE RING WITH THE BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN PODCAST
COMING THIS THURSDAY …
This week on Book Talk with Ginger Dawn get ready to grab your boxing gloves and step into the ring!
Mob fixed fights, Rocky Graziano and Tony Zale , Chicago where “the thick air hung heavy with the scent of stale cigarette smoke and fermenting beer.” Ka Powie! Today I have two heavyweight champions in the ring. Authors Carol Malone and Paul Bishop allow me to be their cornerman as we knockout some of those tough questions on the newest book in the Fight Card series …
FIGHT CARD ROMANCE: LADIES NIGHT! IT’S NO PALOOKA!
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IDEAS LIKE BULLETS LOOKS AT FIGHT CARD
IDEAS LIKE BULLETS LOOKS AT FIGHT CARD
PULP MAVEN TOMMY HANCOCK GIVES HIS OWN TAKE ON THE FIGHT CARD PUBLISHING PARADIGM …
Fight Card revitalizes the Sports Pulp type stories and does it exceedingly well. But the approach that Paul and Mel have taken, by reaching out to various authors, by bringing them all in under a house name or two, by working with them not only hand in hand to complete the stories, but in promotion and support, this approach reinvents how a Publisher should work with an author.
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FIGHT FICTION AND THE FIGHT CARD SERIES
FIGHT FICTION AND THE FIGHT CARD SERIES
BOOK LIFE NOW GIVES US MORE FROM PAUL BISHOP ON THE FIGHT CARD SERIES …
I savor fight fiction because, as a reader and a writer, it brings my imagination alive, it makes me want to stand up and cheer, it elevates me beyond the ordinary, and takes me into the world of one man’s determination and skill pitted against another in the brutal ballet danced in the ring or cage. The Fight Card series and associate spin-offs celebrates these stories …
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THE FIGHT CARD PUBLISHING PARADIGM
THE FIGHT CARD PUBLISHING PARADIGM
AS THE START OF A FIGHT CARD PUBLICITY BLITZ, THE BOOK LIFE NOW BLOG HAS PUBLISHED PUPLISHED A POST ON THE FIGHT CARD AUTHOR COOPERATIVE PUBLISHING PARADIGM …
Part of the [Fight Card] appeal was the new publishing paradigm Mel and I had established … Fight Card was not a publishing company, but something different – an author’s cooperative.
Using the shared open pseudonym of Jack Tunney (to maintain series cohesiveness on Amazon) for the e-books, and the author’s own name for the cover of the paperback versions (via CreateSpace), each author would launch the books from their own individual KDP platform. This ensures the royalties from each Fight Card title go directly to each individual writer – not to a company.
In return, each writer brings back to the cooperative whatever skills they can offer – cover art, editing, blurb writing, website design and maintenance, publicity contacts, podcasting, e-formatting, blog tours, advertising, creation of our free quarterly Fight Fictioneers Magazine, social networking, etc. – all as part of the Fight Card team. Fight Card became, first and foremost, a dynamic for the writers and of the writers.
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September 5, 2013
FIGHT CARD UPDATE
FIGHT CARD UPDATE
Greetings, Fight Card Team!
We have some good stuff happening, which should serve to benefit all of the titles in our Fight Card series. Our very first Fight Card Romance: Ladies Night has just debuted on Amazon, and we are excited about its prospects.
Our Fight Card Romance novels are an attempt to reach out to another audience of readers by crossing the heart of the once immensely popular romance pulps with the current popularity of the romance genre, but with a boxing or MMA settings. While romance will feature prominently, the main story will still center on boxing, the big fight, and a happy resolution to the romance aspects of the tale.
With Ladies Night we welcome the first female author to our team, Carol Malone writing as Jill Tunney.
FIGHT CARD ROMANCE: LADIES NIGHT
Los Angeles, 1954 …
Gangsters, crime, boxing – and romance …
Jimmy Doherty, a hard-luck orphan from the south side of Chicago, was mentored in the sweet science of boxing by Father Tim Brophy, the Battling Priest of St. Vincent’s Asylum for Boys. Jimmy’s fists were good enough to take him to LA where he has begun his rise up the local fight-cards. He has big plans to be a contender and even bigger plans for Lindy – his trainer’s only daughter, who’s sweeter than apple pie and harder to resist.
But when Lindy is arrested for killing a boxer with ties to gangster Mickey Cohen, Jimmy is forced to join forces with the arresting detective – who would like to do much more with Lindy than put her in handcuffs – in a desperate search for the real killer.
Love can be murder – in the ring and out …
Coming up later this month will be a full two weeks of blog touring and podcasts around the Internet supporting all of the Fight Card titles. This will be followed by another concerted effort in October. Thx to new Fight Card team member Jeremy Jones (who has come on board with a new Fight Card novel set in Alaska for 2014) for his help getting us visibility on a number of high traffic blogs.
The latter part of September will see the debut of Anthony Venutolo’s terrific Front Page Palooka featuring east coast sportswriter and all round gadabout, Nick Moretti, struggling for survival in the dark corners of Hollywood’s film studios.
October will finally see the debut of my long delayed Felony Fists sequel Swamp Walloper. I’m currently deep in the swamps of the Bayou Sauvage outside of New Orleans, and Patrick Felony Flynn is in over his head.
Thx as always goes to David Foster, our Fight Card man down under, for his yeoman efforts with our e-covers and his work with the paperback files and covers.
Hank Brown has beat us to the punch with the first audio version of a Fight Card novel, Tomato Can Comeback, which is available via Amazon/Audible at this link: http://tinyurl.com/mrun6wc … Other audio versions are in progress with more information to come.
Keep Punching … Good things are coming …
