Paul Bishop's Blog, page 101
May 2, 2012
FIGHT CARD: KING OF THE OUTBACK PROMO!
FIGHT CARD: KING OF THE OUTBACK PROMO!IN PREPARATION FOR THE MAY FIGHT CARD RELEASE (THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL FIGHT CARD OFFERING) OF, KING OF THE OUTBACK,DAVID FOSTER OVER AT HIS BLOG, PERMISSION TO KILL, HAS POSTED PART ONE OF A DOCUMENTARY ON THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK FIGHT CLUB, AKA: TENT BOXING . . .
. . . King of the Outback, which is released later this month, is set in the world of outback tent boxing. As tent boxing is pretty much unique to Australia, a brief lesson is probably in order.
[On the bolg] in four snippets, is Part 1 of a documentary about Fred Brophy, who ran the last boxing tent in the world. As you’ll see, tent boxing is very different to traditional ring boxing – and at times, a pretty tough life for the fighters involved . . .
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LOOK FOR KING OF THE OUTBACK LATER THIS MONTH
PULP NOW: BABY SHARK IN THE WATER!
PULP NOW: BABY SHARK IN THE WATER!HERE’S THE WORD FROM MY BUDDY ROBERT FATE, WHOSE BABY SHARK BOOKS ARE RIP-ROARING TALES OF REVENGE AND REDEMPTION . . .
As you know the publishing industry has gotten wackier than ever this past year or so – bookstores going out of business, traditional book sales declining, eBook sales increasing. My publisher has thrown in the towel. So, what happens to my backlist that is no longer available through the distributors contracted by my ex-publisher? Or, to cut directly to the chase, how can readers find my books?
Well, I’ve decided to go digital. This means I have penned 2nd editions of the first four Baby Shark novels and released them via Amazon. They will be offered FREE for your Kindle on the following dates:
Baby Shark will be free from May 18 thru May 22, 2012.
Beaumont Blues will be free from May 25 thru May 28, 2012.
High Plains Redemption will be free from June 1 thru June 3, 2012.
Jugglers at the Border will be free from June 8 thru June 10, 2012.
Each of the books can also be borrowed for free any time from the Kindle Lending Library. Be sure to check out the Book Club section when you visit www.robertfate.com and watch for the summer 2012 publications of Baby Shark’s Showdown at Chigger Flats, book five in the Baby Shark series. And, Kill the Gigolo, a contemporary standalone with a male protagonist.
April 29, 2012
ROUGH EDGES REVIEWS FIGHT CARD: HARD ROAD!
ROUGH EDGES REVIEWS FIGHT CARD: HARD ROAD!JAMES REASONER PUNCHES IN ON THE LATEST FIGHT CARD ENTRY, HARD ROAD, OVER AT HIS ROUGH EDGES BLOG . . .
The latest entry in the Fight Card series continues the string of overall excellence in this on-going project masterminded by Paul Bishop and Mel Odom. HARD ROAD, which was written by Kevin Michaels under the Jack Tunney house-name, is the story of Roberto Varga, another two-fisted graduate of St. Vincent's Orphanage in Chicago . . . I'm not familiar with Kevin Michaels or his work, but he does a fine job in HARD ROAD, handling not only the fight scenes with polished ease but also the quieter, more emotional moments as well. He captures the 1957 setting vividly, too, and I really enjoyed his style . . .
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April 27, 2012
PULP NOW: BLACK JACK JUSTICE!
PULP NOW: BLACK JACK JUSTICE!Fans of Decoder Ring Theatre’s long-running full-cast audio series Black Jack Justice will delight in the very first meeting between Jack Justice and Trixie Dixon, girl detective. New readers will appreciate the fast tempo, the noir banter and the classic hard-boiled feel of Black Jack Justice!
"...I did not move. I am not skittish by nature, but I know the sound of a hammer being cocked when I hear it. This one was a large calibre automatic, which meant it wasn’t a cop. I turned my head as slowly and non-threateningly as I could. It was my friend with the square jaw, and his friend the .45. “Hi,” he said.
It was a simple enough case. Sex, betrayal, sex, money, sex, murder and sex. But when a pair of His and Hers private detectives get involved, the sparks start to fly and the blood begins to spill in earnest. With every shot that’s fired, the hole digs a little deeper, and the list of people our sparring
shamuses can trust gets shorter and shorter..."
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Gregg Taylor's love of the classic adventure stories of the golden age of radio, film noir and pulp fiction are the driving passions behind his work for both prose and radio drama. The audio drama series Black Jack Justice appears as a part of the Decoder Ring Theatre podcast, and has also been heard on independant radio stations around North America. While the central characters and situations carry over from the radio series to this novel, and the story can been seen as a part of the same continuity, this story is also a perfect starting point for readers new to the series.
April 26, 2012
PULP NOW: THE GREAT UNDEAD WAR!
PULP NOW: THE GREAT UNDEAD WAR!THE WORD FROM AUTHOR JOSEPH NASSISE ON HIS FANTASTIC NEW SERIES WITH ONE OF THE BEST PULP COVERS EVER . . .
On May 1st HarperCollins will be launching my new WWI alternate history series, The Great Undead War, with the publication of BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES in trade paperback and ebook editions.
To celebrate, I've partnered with Shindig, a very cool company out of New York City, who will be hosting the Great Undead War Virtual Launch Party on May 1st at 6 pm EDT. This FREE, large-scale video chat gathering will feature me doing a live reading from my new book, followed by a Q&A session with the audience. If you've never attended an event like this before, now you can do so without leaving the comfort of your own living room!
Shindig's technology allows me to bring audience members up "on stage" (so to speak) to interact with while at the same time allowing groups of audience members to do the same between themselves. What's even better is that you don't need any special equipment to participate - just a computer with speakers to hear the event, or a webcam if you want to interact visually with others in the audience.
I'd love to have you join me!
What: The Great Undead War Virtual Launch Party
When: May 1st 6pm EDT
Where: Online
Attendees will also receive a free ebook edition of THE SHARP END, a prequel story introducing the characters and setting for the series, as a special thanks for sharing the launch with me.
BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES
Train them . . . Arm them . . . Then turn them loose on the zombies!
At the tail end of 1917, the Germans introduced a new type of gas to the battlefield, T-Leiche, or "corpse gas," and changed the face of the war by resurrecting the bodies of the dead, giving the enemy an almost unlimited source of fresh troops.
When the American ace Major Jack Freeman—poster boy for the war against the Kaiser's undead army of shamblers—is downed over enemy lines and taken captive, veteran Captain Michael "Madman" Burke is the only man brave and foolish enough to accept the mission to recover Freeman. Burke assembles a team of disparate members, from his right-hand man, Sergeant Moore, to big-game-hunter-turned-soldier Clayton Manning, who funds the mission for an opportunity to confront this most dangerous zombie game, to professor Dan Richards, one of Tesla's top men and the resident authority on all things supernatural. With the help of a highly advanced British dirigible war machine to infiltrate enemy territory, the team faces incredible danger as it struggles to reach the prison camp and strike at the heart of the enemy.
But they are pitted against the most deadly enemy of all: Manfred von Richthofen, the Red Baron. Having risen from the dead with his abilities enhanced but his mind on the brink of madness, Richthofen has plans for victory that give no quarter to soldiers or civilians.
BY THE BLOOD OF HEROES is available now for a special pre-order discount price - just $10.98 in paperback and $9.99 in ebook - at both Amazon.com and B&N.com
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