MARK FINN AND THE ADVENTURES OF SAILOR TOM SHARKEY
Some of the original inspirations for the Fight Card series were the Sailor Steve Costigan stories by prolific pulp author, fight fan, and amateur boxer Robert E, Howard. Now, Fight Card is excited to announce an upcoming (2014) short story collection from REH scholar Mark Finn featuring The Adventures Of Sailor Tom Sharkey. A direct descendant of Howard’s Costigan, the Sailor Tom Sharkey tales are filled with two-fisted humor, odd characters, and imaginative plots … Look for The Adventures Of Sailor Tom Sharkey in early 2014 with a fantastic cover from artist Carl Yonder.
Mark Finn is an author, actor, essayist, and playwright. His biography, Blood and Thunder: The Life and Art of Robert E. Howard, was nominated for a World Fantasy award in 2007 and is now available in an updated and expanded second edition. His articles, essays, and introductions about Robert E. Howard and his works have appeared in publications for the Robert E. Howard Foundation, Dark Horse Comics, Boom! Comics, The Cimmerian, REH: Two-Gun Raconteur, The Howard Review, Wildside Press, Centipede Press, The University of Texas press, Greenwood Press, Scarecrow Press and elsewhere. As a noted authority on the Texas author, Finn has presented several papers about Robert E. Howard to the PCA/ACA National conference, the AWC, and he lectures and performs readings regularly.
Finn is the author of two books of fiction, Gods New and Used and Year of the Hare, as well as hundreds of articles, essays, reviews, and short stories for Playboy.com, RevolutionSF.com, Dark Horse Comics, Monkeybrain Books, Sky Warrior Books, F.A.C.T. Publications, Tachyon Press and others. Current projects include Dr. Zombie for Monkeybrain Comics with longtime friend and collaborator John Lucas and a collection of his weird historical boxing stories featuring real-life Golden Age boxing legend Sailor Tom Sharkey. He lives in North Texas with his long-suffering wife, too many books, and an affable pit bull named Sonya.
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