Paul Bishop's Blog, page 64
September 18, 2013
JUST WHAT IS A FIGHT CARD ROMANCE?
JUST WHAT IS A FIGHT CARD ROMANCE?ANSWERS TO LIFE'S BIG QUESTION ... FIGHT CARD'S CAROL MALONE (WRITING AS JILL TUNNEY) SPELLS IT OUT OVER AT BOOK LIFE NOW ...
When I was in high school, I started reading and writing romance, and have since then written numerous manuscripts. So, I decided to take a dare and without Paul’s knowledge began pecking out my own Fight Card tale. I didn’t start out to necessarily write a romance, but the main characters dictated their story, I simply jotted it down. A year later, voilà – Ladies Night ...
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BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN PODCAST!
BOOK TALK WITH GINGER DAWN PODCAST! 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 WRITERSTHE 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 ROPESTHE 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 heavy weight champions in the ring.
Authors Carol Malone and Paul Bishop allow me to be their cornerman as we knock out some of those tough questions on the newest book in the Fight Card series ...
FIGHT CARD ROMANCE: LADIES NIGHT! IT’S NO PALOOKA!
TO CHECK OUT THE PODCAST (THURSDAY) CLICK HERE
IDEAS LIKE BULLETS LOOKS AT FIGHT CARD
IDEAS LIKE BULLETS LOOKS AT FIGHT CARDPULP 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 SERIESBOOK 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 PARADIGMAS 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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