Just in time for the release of New Roads To Hell, I sit down with the man behind Airship 27, Ron Fortier to talk about his distinguished career as a comic book writer, author and publisher! Listen to it here!
Monday, September 16, 2013
Cap'n Ron Fortier Visits THE NOCTURNE TRAVEL AGENCY!
Just in time for the release of New Roads To Hell, I sit down with the man behind Airship 27, Ron Fortier to talk about his distinguished career as a comic book writer, author and publisher! Listen to it here!
Sunday, September 15, 2013
NEW ROADS TO HELL is finally here!
“Thomas proposed this idea to me last year,” explains Airship 27 Managing Editor Ron Fortier, “and I thought it contained fascinating perspectives on the whole idea of supernatural beings.”
“Every sci-fi, pulp fan knows comic book superheroes evolved from the pulps heroes,” Fortier goes on to say. “The idea of turning the tables and doing prose stories of superheroes isn’t anything new and there have been several publishers who have explored that hybrid world recently. We didn’t want to copy what others had done; which is why SHADOW LEGION appealed to me in the first place. In creating the city of Nocturne and its unique characters, Thomas has put a decidedly fresh spin on this genre and we think our readers are really going to enjoy these adventures.”
There has always been something strange about Nocturne, Florida; the City That Lives by Night. It is an entertainment nexus luring tourist from around the world to its night clubs, music venues and other, more adult entertainment venues. But there is a darker side to which these carefree revelers never see; one of dark doings, violence and eldritch evil.
Now a new sinister force threatens Nocturne and only a handful of unique, gifted beings can protect the city’s innocent.
Nightbreaker; a radio star turned vigilante, he exist in a strange limbo world.
The beautiful Dreamcatcher who bends all magic to her will.
The mysterious Ferryman, a living conduit to the world beyond!
And their leader, Black Talon, the embodiment of the unfettered fury of the African Veldt...stalking a jungle of concrete and glass!
Together they are The Shadow Legion, a secret alliance of mystery men and women who battle the fantastic threats that can tear apart the metropolis they call home!
Their saga begins here in New Roads To Hell, a gripping novel by Thomas Deja that reveals the secret origins of Nightbreaker and Ferrymen, and features the menace of Rose Red, a crimson haired devil with a talent for murder! The book features interior illustrations by Chris Kemple and a cover by Pulp Factory Award winning artist, Mike Fyles with designs by Rob Davis, another PFA art winner.
AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – New Pulp Fiction for a New Generation!
Now available at Amazon.com & on Kindle.
Monday, September 9, 2013
Be Ready On September 16th....
....because what you've all been waiting for will finally be here.
(And trust me, by 'you' I include me. Hell, I think I'm the most anxious of all).
See you in about a week.
(And trust me, by 'you' I include me. Hell, I think I'm the most anxious of all).
See you in about a week.
Thursday, August 29, 2013
Sorry For The Delay....
Here’s why I’ve been silent for a while.
Over the last few weeks, I turned in both ‘Sit By The Fire’ and Amazing Alternity Stories to Pulpworks Press.
‘Sit By The Fire’ is a new Don Cuevo story told from a unique viewpoint. If you liked 'Don Cuevo’s Curative,’ from the first volume of How The West Was Weird, you may enjoy the further clues this story gives as to the nature of our frontier exorcist and his comely assistant. I think I may make one of my goals for next year to write a few more Cuevo stories with an eye towards compiling a collection of them for 2015 when I’m not working on my next novel; hell, a third tale formed so quickly in my mind I’ve started writing down the initial licks.
I personally am relieved that Amazing Alternity Stories has been delivered to its publisher. There have been nights I’ve had dreams of me and Harlan Ellison sitting on a bench in the afterlife with manuscripts chained to our spirits--his being The Last Dangerous Visions, and mine being Amazing Alternity Stories. I am so grateful to the quartet behind Pulpworks Press for their patience when it came to this anthology, and am so glad that all the writers who showed faith in my for all these years will finally see their work brought to the public.
(And I think this book will mark the end of my career as an editor....)
As for other things...well, ‘The Town That Hated Santa,’ the Doc Thunder story for this year’s Pulpworks Christmas Annual continues apace. I’m still working on ‘Giants of Industry,’ the story for Monster Earth 2. I’ve started work on that story for that project I’m not allowed to talk about juuuuust yet.
That leaves The Shadow Legion stuff. I think I can safely announce that one of the stories that will ultimately appear in The Shadow Legion Casebook Volume One, the Ferryman story ‘A Waltz In Scarlet,’ will be featured in Mystery Men And Women Volume Four...and another of the stories might appear in the fifth volume of that series from Airship 27.
Right now I’m holding off on finishing the Dreamcatcher story for the Casebook. Part of that is because of the more pressing deadlines for Monster Earth 2 and the other project...and the implied short deadline for the Doc Thunder story. But the other reason is that I realized that ‘Amongst Monsters,’ which I was over halfway done with, is going to make a much better fit for what I want to do with the second novel. My intention is to focus primarily on the legacy of Black Talon in that novel, as well as some new additions to the cast, and the threat for the story works much better in concert with that. That means it’s back to square one for my Dreamcatcher tale. I think I have a good idea for a replacement tale that will hit the same beats as the story it’s replacing, but I’ll only know until I start back up.
Incidentally, the Dreamcatcher story has proven to be the most difficult. There are story fragments from two, maybe three previous attempts. Maybe if Airship 27 is willing to do it, I’ll provide some excerpts as a ‘CD Extra.’
Keep an eye on this blog, folks. There is going to be a very, very big announcement coming up very soon.
Over the last few weeks, I turned in both ‘Sit By The Fire’ and Amazing Alternity Stories to Pulpworks Press.
‘Sit By The Fire’ is a new Don Cuevo story told from a unique viewpoint. If you liked 'Don Cuevo’s Curative,’ from the first volume of How The West Was Weird, you may enjoy the further clues this story gives as to the nature of our frontier exorcist and his comely assistant. I think I may make one of my goals for next year to write a few more Cuevo stories with an eye towards compiling a collection of them for 2015 when I’m not working on my next novel; hell, a third tale formed so quickly in my mind I’ve started writing down the initial licks.
I personally am relieved that Amazing Alternity Stories has been delivered to its publisher. There have been nights I’ve had dreams of me and Harlan Ellison sitting on a bench in the afterlife with manuscripts chained to our spirits--his being The Last Dangerous Visions, and mine being Amazing Alternity Stories. I am so grateful to the quartet behind Pulpworks Press for their patience when it came to this anthology, and am so glad that all the writers who showed faith in my for all these years will finally see their work brought to the public.
(And I think this book will mark the end of my career as an editor....)
As for other things...well, ‘The Town That Hated Santa,’ the Doc Thunder story for this year’s Pulpworks Christmas Annual continues apace. I’m still working on ‘Giants of Industry,’ the story for Monster Earth 2. I’ve started work on that story for that project I’m not allowed to talk about juuuuust yet.
That leaves The Shadow Legion stuff. I think I can safely announce that one of the stories that will ultimately appear in The Shadow Legion Casebook Volume One, the Ferryman story ‘A Waltz In Scarlet,’ will be featured in Mystery Men And Women Volume Four...and another of the stories might appear in the fifth volume of that series from Airship 27.
Right now I’m holding off on finishing the Dreamcatcher story for the Casebook. Part of that is because of the more pressing deadlines for Monster Earth 2 and the other project...and the implied short deadline for the Doc Thunder story. But the other reason is that I realized that ‘Amongst Monsters,’ which I was over halfway done with, is going to make a much better fit for what I want to do with the second novel. My intention is to focus primarily on the legacy of Black Talon in that novel, as well as some new additions to the cast, and the threat for the story works much better in concert with that. That means it’s back to square one for my Dreamcatcher tale. I think I have a good idea for a replacement tale that will hit the same beats as the story it’s replacing, but I’ll only know until I start back up.
Incidentally, the Dreamcatcher story has proven to be the most difficult. There are story fragments from two, maybe three previous attempts. Maybe if Airship 27 is willing to do it, I’ll provide some excerpts as a ‘CD Extra.’
Keep an eye on this blog, folks. There is going to be a very, very big announcement coming up very soon.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
The Periodic Update Post
Sorry for the delay, my fellow travelers, but trust me...I have lots to tell you about.
First off, I’m roughly five thousand words away from closing out The Shadow Legion Casebook Volume One. The last story to be completed will be ‘Amongst Monsters,’ which sees Maybelle Tremens, the psychic detective known as Dreamcatcher, comes to the aid of a brand new hero whose encounter with a hideous creature has led them to a veritable house of horrors! You will learn a lot about Maybelle and what sets her apart from her fellow Shadow Legionnaires mentally, emotionally and physically while also getting more glimpses of the menace that will be looming over the city of Nocturne in the next two novels, which are tenatively titled Machina Ex Deus and Urban Inferno!
I also recently finish the preliminary draft for ‘Sit By The Fire’ (the title may change), the first new Don Cuevo story in years. An old man is visited by our frontier exorcist and his beautiful assistant during one of the nastiest snowstorms in memory. The old man serves them some food and is willing to let them warm up....but Cuevo has some suspicions about the man’s hospitality and a mission he must carry out. I know where I’d like for this story to go, but I don’t want to jinx it by saying much more.
Now onto things still being worked on...
You’ve probably already seen the announcement that I am the one new author to play in the worlds of Monster Earth for it’s second collection. The story I’m working on is called ‘Giants of Industry,’ and I’ll tell you more as we get closer to completion.
Then there’s ‘The Town That Hated Santa Claus,’ the new Doc Thunder story that’s slated to appear in this year’s Pulpworks Press Christmas Annual. I’m roughly two thousand words in, and the story might be self-explanatory from the title, as Elias Thunder responds to a curious letter to Saint Nick from a child, teaming up with a mysterious stranger to visit a small town that shuns the holidays.
There’s also a third project that I was just invited to. I can’t go into details just yet, but I will say it plays into one of my great passions (one that I devote an entire blog to, in fact) and it’s one I’m looking forward to letting loose on!
Since these three projects have roughly the same deadline (October or thereabouts), I’ll be focusing on them before returning to The Shadow Legion Casebook and The Adventures of Tao Jones. Plus, there’s the other project that needs a little explanation....
Several years ago, I proposed a short story anthology to Pulpworks Press called Amazing Alternity Stories, a collection of tales in alternate universes where famous personages took very different paths. Amongst the tales pitched to me and turned in were ones where Abraham Lincoln was a crime-busting boxer, Charles Darwin was an intergalactic lawman; Winston Churchill was a spy; Barack Obama was a masked avenger; and a number more (although I will admit I regret that the writer who pitched the story featuring George Carlin as a Vietnam-era fighter pilot never submitted anything). I asked for a few rewrites....
And then I stalled. I can’t honestly say why the progress on the anthology stopped so dead for so long. When I got the opportunity to write New Roads To Hell, the collective brain trust behind Pulpworks Press took the project off their production slate and asked me to concentrate on the novel.
Well, the novel’s been finished for a while. The second book is just about done. I had an idea for what will become my second novel I was looking for a home for. Pulpworks Press wanted to do it, but we both knew there was a big ol’ elephant in the room that needed to be put behind us....
Thus, Alternity Lives!
I am in the process of compiling the stories into the final manuscript. God willing, you’ll see it this winter!
So yes, it’s true. I’ve got a lot on my plate. And hopefully, you’ll all enjoy what I serve up in the coming months!
First off, I’m roughly five thousand words away from closing out The Shadow Legion Casebook Volume One. The last story to be completed will be ‘Amongst Monsters,’ which sees Maybelle Tremens, the psychic detective known as Dreamcatcher, comes to the aid of a brand new hero whose encounter with a hideous creature has led them to a veritable house of horrors! You will learn a lot about Maybelle and what sets her apart from her fellow Shadow Legionnaires mentally, emotionally and physically while also getting more glimpses of the menace that will be looming over the city of Nocturne in the next two novels, which are tenatively titled Machina Ex Deus and Urban Inferno!
I also recently finish the preliminary draft for ‘Sit By The Fire’ (the title may change), the first new Don Cuevo story in years. An old man is visited by our frontier exorcist and his beautiful assistant during one of the nastiest snowstorms in memory. The old man serves them some food and is willing to let them warm up....but Cuevo has some suspicions about the man’s hospitality and a mission he must carry out. I know where I’d like for this story to go, but I don’t want to jinx it by saying much more.
Now onto things still being worked on...
You’ve probably already seen the announcement that I am the one new author to play in the worlds of Monster Earth for it’s second collection. The story I’m working on is called ‘Giants of Industry,’ and I’ll tell you more as we get closer to completion.
Then there’s ‘The Town That Hated Santa Claus,’ the new Doc Thunder story that’s slated to appear in this year’s Pulpworks Press Christmas Annual. I’m roughly two thousand words in, and the story might be self-explanatory from the title, as Elias Thunder responds to a curious letter to Saint Nick from a child, teaming up with a mysterious stranger to visit a small town that shuns the holidays.
There’s also a third project that I was just invited to. I can’t go into details just yet, but I will say it plays into one of my great passions (one that I devote an entire blog to, in fact) and it’s one I’m looking forward to letting loose on!
Since these three projects have roughly the same deadline (October or thereabouts), I’ll be focusing on them before returning to The Shadow Legion Casebook and The Adventures of Tao Jones. Plus, there’s the other project that needs a little explanation....
Several years ago, I proposed a short story anthology to Pulpworks Press called Amazing Alternity Stories, a collection of tales in alternate universes where famous personages took very different paths. Amongst the tales pitched to me and turned in were ones where Abraham Lincoln was a crime-busting boxer, Charles Darwin was an intergalactic lawman; Winston Churchill was a spy; Barack Obama was a masked avenger; and a number more (although I will admit I regret that the writer who pitched the story featuring George Carlin as a Vietnam-era fighter pilot never submitted anything). I asked for a few rewrites....
And then I stalled. I can’t honestly say why the progress on the anthology stopped so dead for so long. When I got the opportunity to write New Roads To Hell, the collective brain trust behind Pulpworks Press took the project off their production slate and asked me to concentrate on the novel.
Well, the novel’s been finished for a while. The second book is just about done. I had an idea for what will become my second novel I was looking for a home for. Pulpworks Press wanted to do it, but we both knew there was a big ol’ elephant in the room that needed to be put behind us....
Thus, Alternity Lives!
I am in the process of compiling the stories into the final manuscript. God willing, you’ll see it this winter!
So yes, it’s true. I’ve got a lot on my plate. And hopefully, you’ll all enjoy what I serve up in the coming months!
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Coming Soon....
As we get closer and closer to the release of New Roads To Hell, the first Shadow Legion novel from Airship 27, a bunch of my friends and I got together and made an old-school audio promo! You can download it here!
I want to thank my cast for stepping up. To wit:
Narrator: William Robinson
Gunsel: Paul Herrman
Black Talon: Kelen Conley
Gloria: Rachel Bailey
Nightbreaker: Michael Bailey
Ferryman: Desmond Reddick
Dreamcatcher: Trelina Gonzalez Anderson
Rose Red: Megan Reddick
Johnny Seven: Andew Leyland
Kelen Conley also provided the musical bed. Let's all give them a round of applause!
I'll have more goodies for you to enjoy as we get closer to the release date...so stay tuned!
I want to thank my cast for stepping up. To wit:
Narrator: William Robinson
Gunsel: Paul Herrman
Black Talon: Kelen Conley
Gloria: Rachel Bailey
Nightbreaker: Michael Bailey
Ferryman: Desmond Reddick
Dreamcatcher: Trelina Gonzalez Anderson
Rose Red: Megan Reddick
Johnny Seven: Andew Leyland
Kelen Conley also provided the musical bed. Let's all give them a round of applause!
I'll have more goodies for you to enjoy as we get closer to the release date...so stay tuned!
Monday, July 1, 2013
Coming To Crush A Major City Near You!
I've got a fuller update coming later this week, but this makes one of the things I was waiting to announce official! I am really jazzed to be participating in this anthology series. Check This Out (and keep an eye out for an episode of Nocturne Travel Agency Podcast where I sit down with James Palmer to discuss Mechanoid and the Monster Earth timeline!)
Monster Earth 2
Is Coming!
“This is going to take the monster action to a whole new
level,” explains Palmer. “I thing fans of the first book are really going to
love this one.”
MONSTER EARTH 2 will bring the action closer to the present
day, with the nations of the world experimenting with genetic manipulation of
the various beasties. Add a secret death cult trying to herald the end of days,
and you’ve got a volatile recipe for mayhem and destruction as only some of the
hottest writers in New Pulp can bring it.
MONSTER EARTH 2 is scheduled for either a late
December or early January release, and will appear in both Kindle and trade
paper formats.
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About James
Palmer
James has written articles, interviews, columns, reviews
and fiction for Strange Horizons, Tangent Online, The Internet
Review of Science Fiction, and New Pulp Publishers Airship 27, Pro Se
Productions, and White Rocket Books. His books Slow Djinn and Four
Terrors: Weird Horror Tales are currently available in PDF and Kindle
formats. He also has a story in Mars McCoy: Space Ranger Vol 2. from
Airship 27. For more, visit http://www.jamespalmerbooks.com/ or
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Press
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fiction, New Pulp, and steampunk ebooks and anthologies. For more, visit http://www.mechanoidpress.com/ or
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