Paul Bishop's Blog, page 88
August 15, 2012
August 13, 2012
FIGHT FICTION: BUSHWHACKED!
FIGHT FICTION: BUSHWHACKED!JAMES HOPWOOD
A GREAT NEW FIGHT FICTION TALE FROM ONE OF THE FIGHT CARD SEREIS TOP AUTHORS . . . JUST 99¢ FOR YOUR KINDLE ...
BUSHWACKED
Trooper Gladstone Farrell of Victorian Colonial Police Force was corrupt as they came.
Farrell had a fearsome reputation throughout the Central Victorian Goldfields. He was not in the least concerned at keeping the peace. As far as he was concerned, 'Gold Fever' was about money, and he did everything possible to get his share. However, this did not include hard labor, such as digging or panning for gold. His methods were much simpler. He would allow others to do the hard graft, and when they had found a few ounces he would swoop – always in the capacity of a custodian of the law. Most of the miners in the area didn't have licenses, so when Farrell came calling, they either had to pay a portion of their diggings or face a hefty fine. Either way, Farrell got their gold or their money.
When Farrell swooped on the Clancy brothers for mining without a license, they made an unusual proposition to keep from going to jail. Danny Clancy was a bare-knuckles fighter; but not an honest one. His next fight was fixed, and his opponent was set to fall in the sixth round. Farrell muscled in on the deal, intending to collect two ways – first taking his cut from the Clancy brothers, and secondly, cleaning up with his own side bet.
James Hopwood (pen name of David James Foster), author of King of the Outback, a hard punching story in the Fight Card series is back with another knuckle bruising tale. A tale in which nothing is as it seems, and in which someone will be Bushwhacked!
August 11, 2012
August 10, 2012
ESPIONAGE CORNER: TIKI OASIS PRESENTS SPYXOTICA!
ESPIONAGE CORNER: TIKI OASIS PRESENTS SPYXOTICA!SPYXOTICA: EXOTIC ESPIONAGE AND POLYNESIAN PULP
THIS SOUNDS LIKE A BLAST . . .
In 2012 Tiki Oasis will be occupied by a den of spies, secret agents, and villains, all out to reach the same goal: to have fun for four continuous days while imbibing the world's greatest cocktails!
We all know the strong connection between spies and tropical islands, but if anyone needs a refresher course Agent Fawn and I have secured this classified document and made it available to you.
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We have also obtained another classified document revealing the intelligence that has been gathered on us. This will not deter us from appearing at Tiki Oasis and having fun like all of you.
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Please join us for some thrilling sleuthing and fun-loving spying at Tiki Oasis in San Diego, Thursday August 16 through Sunday August 19, 2012.To celebrate this year's Tiki Oasis in San Diego (Aug 16 - 19), The Kitsch Niche will be presenting Spyxotica – a musical exploration of spy music in exotic locales. Agent Strike will present 3 hours of music from spy movies and TV shows alongside exotica from strange and dangerous lands. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to tune in to www.luxuriamusic.com on Sunday, Aug. 12, beginning at 8 pm PST.
However, if you fail the mission, you may attempt to listen again on Friday, Aug. 17th at 11 am PST, or download the secret podcast from the Luxuriamusic Kitsch Niche podcast page any time after the program airs.
To view microfiche on all Tiki Oasis events, including Agent Strike and 00 Duke's Syposium "Come Spy with Me", as well as DJ schedules for Strike and Other Luxuria personalities, CLICK HERE
PAUL D. BRAZILL’S JOINT TAKES ON FELONY FISTS!
PAUL D. BRAZILL’S JOINT TAKES ON FELONY FISTS!YOU WOULD SAY THAT, WOULDN’T YOU – THE BLOG OF PAUL D. BRAZILL – GIVES A GREAT REVIEW TO FELONY FISTS . . .
... Jack Tunney’s breathless Felony Fists takes place in Los Angeles in the mid ’50s. Racketeer Mickey Cohen is trying to take over the fight game, pinning his hopes on Solomon King a massive heavyweight boxer ... Fast moving and hard hitting with a strong sense of place and time, Felony Fists is a great start to a highly addictive series ...
PAUL D. BRAZILL IS THE WORDSMITH BEHIND THIRTEEN SHOTS OF NOIR, DRUNK ON THE MOON, AND BRIT GRIT ...
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FANTASY CORNER: NIRVANA GATES!
FANTASY CORNER: NIRVANA GATES!J.M. MCDERMOTT
ANOTHER EXCELLENT JOURNEY INTO THE FATHOMLESS ABYSS SERIES OF FANTASY TALES ...
NIRVANA GATES
She was born there, in the Smog, every day breathing more smoke than air. She was strange, even in a bottomless hell full of creatures from a million worlds. She was doomed to a life of servitude. She was lonely. She was worried about her dying father. She was suspicious of her lying mother. She was scared. She was getting angry.
And she wanted answers.
The Fathomless Abyss can open any time and anywhere, and things fall in, or crawl in, from a million worlds across a million years. Deep in the bottomless expanse of this impossible world lies a doorway to truth, or an entrance to an even worse hell.
Join ground-breaking fantasist J.M. McDermott, author of Last Dragon and the Dogsland Trilogy for a trip deep into the nightmare of self, and the burning desire for redemption.
August 9, 2012
PULP NOW: BULLETPROOF NYLON!
PULP NOW: BULLETPROOF NYLON!I’VE BEEN DELIGHTED WITH THE ARTWORK AND THE PROSE STORIES I’VE READ SO FAR IN THIS BURLESQUE NOIR MASH-UP FROM MAL EARL ... A GREAT, INSPIRED CONCEPT ...
BULLETPROOF NYLON
MAL EARL
An ongoing creative project, informed and inspired by The Pulp Magazines, Hardboiled Crime Literature, and Underground Fetish Culture of Mid-Twentieth Century America.
In text and illustration the project will grow to explore the denizens and environs of an alternative America of the late Nineteen Fifties, in a series of interlocking, convergent tales.
The city of Dores Rib on the eastern seaboard of the United States is the backdrop to a thousand stories in a world where Japan did not feel the terror of the atomic bomb, the space race is on the brink of being won, atomic batteries power the needs of civilization and the ‘Newton Gear’ has revolutionized the fundamentals of travel across the globe.
In the alleyways of 'The Rib', the vigilantes stand side by side with the cops in the fight against increasing lawlessness across the city, and in the shadows above and below the machinations of evil and corruption gather like an unstoppable storm cloud.
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August 5, 2012
FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES TAKES ON THE TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!
FIGHT CARD: ROUGH EDGES TAKES ON THE TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!OVER AT HIS ROUGH EDGES BLOG, JAMES REASONER REVIEWS TOMATO CAN COMEBACK CLAIMING IT IS ONE OF HIS FAVORITE BOOKS IN THE SERIES . . .
... Tomato Can Comeback [is]plenty hardboiled ... with its mean streets portrayal of Detroit and a sense of gritty, sweaty desperation reminiscent of the work of Orrie Hitt. Schwartz and Garrick are flawed but sympathetic characters, as is Garrick's old sergeant ...
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