DOUBLE FIGHT CARD-SALMON GETS IN THE RING WITH TWO!
Fight Card Books has released a teaser for their upcoming January 2013 ebook release, Rumble In The Jungle by Jack Tunney. Learn more at http://fightcardbooks.com.
Only the mines are not abandoned and we are soon treated to a fish (or should I say, fist?) out of water tale with O’Quinn and his partner searching for the lost gold while working for the current owners of the mine. It doesn’t take long for O’Quinn to fall in love with the mine boss’s daughter and it doesn’t take long for the trouble he left in San Francisco to catch up to him while he is left to battle for the hand of the woman he loves.
Cover by Kieth Birdsong |
Fight Card Books’ December publication, Fight Card: The Knockout, is now available for Kindle via Amazon. Says Fight Card’s Paul Bishop of the new release, “This time up the venerable Robert J. Randisi is behind the mask of Jack Tunney. Bob Randisi is a tremendously prolific author who has written in many genres. Many of us also know Bob as the founder of the Private-Eye Writers of America, the organization behind the prestigious Shamus awards. A great guy, a great writer, and a great addition to the Fight Card canon.”
About Fight Card: The Knockout:
Brooklyn, 1954
Frankie ‘The Piston’ Corleone was an up-and-coming light heavyweight fighter until a broken hand took him out of contention. Now, Frankie works as a private eye, occasionally taking sparring work to stay in shape make ends meet.
Cappy O’Brien has trained a lot of fighters, including Frankie. But Cappy has never had a real contender until now … Candy Marquez is the real deal, and after being battered by Marquez during several rounds of sparring, Frankie has to agree. But the fight game is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg, and other trainers and the mob all want a piece of Cappy’s best prospect.
When Cappy winds up dead, it’s time for Frankie to take off the gloves and take The Piston’s punching power to the street to knockout a killer …
You can order your very own ebook copy of Fight Card: The Knockout here.
2013 looks to be a watershed year for the Fight Card series. January brings Fight Card: Rumble In The Jungle from our own man down under, David Foster … This is a very pulpy tale with an international setting in South Africa. February, will see Fight Card: Against The Ropes visit the 1920’s with a tale by Terrence McCaulley, which is a prequel to his current novel “Prohibition” from Airship 27 Productions (with whom we will be cross-promoting).
Much more to come including a new issue of Fight Fictioneeers Magazine.
Available this week… Fight Card: The Knockout… By Robert J. Randisi writing as Jack Tunney…
Visit Fight Card Books for more information.
Tell ’em All Pulp sent ya.
Fight Card Books has released the cover to the upcoming paperback edition of Irish Dukes by Mike Faricy. Currently available as an ebook, Irish Dukes will have a paperback release in the near future.
ABOUT FIGHT CARD: IRISH DUKES–
Dublin, Ireland, 1951
After winning his latest bout in Berlin, US Army boxing champ Sergeant Kevin Crowley is on military leave in Ireland. Raised in St. Vincent’s Asylum For Boys in Chicago, he has finally returned to his place of birth, where he is sure he will find the family he never knew and lay claim to his dream of a royal fortune.
What Crowley actually finds is the fight of his life … A near destitute grandmother, crippling debt left by a father he never knew, a feisty redhead with hatred in her heart, a villainous landlord and his gang who’ll stop at nothing to settle a score going back a generation …
Kevin Crowley has never backed down in the ring or out … The treasures and truth awaiting him in Dublin are not what he first imagined. But with his past, his family, and his future at stake, Crowley will put up his Irish dukes and fight like never before …
Learn more about the Fight Card series at www.fightcardbooks.com.
Listen to Paul Bishop’s Fight Card interview on the Earth Station One podcast here.
The latest Fight Card novel, Irish Dukes, is now available as an ebook with a paperback to follow shortly. Fight Card’s Paul Bishop shared the following press release with All Pulp.
Press Release:
AVAILABLE NOW ~ FIGHT CARD: IRISH DUKES
Continuing monthly releases of two-fisted boxing tales, the Fight Card series November release, Fight Card: Irish Dukes, is now available from Amazon.com.
Set in Ireland in 1951, Fight Card: Irish Dukes is the second novelette in the Fight Card series to feature an international setting (after the Australian set Fight Card: King Of The Outback).
The name behind the Jack Tunney pseudonym for this entry in the Fight Card series is award winning author Mike Faricy. Bombshell is Faricy’s most recent novel released under his own name. Currently, this series entry is available as a downloadable e-book with a paperback version to follow shortly.
FIGHT CARD: IRISH DUKES
Dublin, Ireland, 1951
After winning his latest bout in Berlin, US Army boxing champ Sergeant Kevin Crowley is on military leave in Ireland. Raised in St. Vincent’s Asylum For Boys in Chicago, he has finally returned to his place of birth, where he is sure he will find the family he never knew and lay claim to his dream of a royal fortune.
What Crowley actually finds is the fight of his life … A near destitute grandmother, crippling debt left by a father he never knew, a feisty redhead with hatred in her heart, a villainous landlord and his gang who’ll stop at nothing to settle a score going back a generation …
Kevin Crowley has never backed down in the ring or out … The treasures and truth awaiting him in Dublin are not what he first imagined. But with his past, his family, and his future at stake, Crowley will put up his Irish dukes and fight like never before …
PRAISE FOR FIGHT CARD: IRISH DUKES
★★★★★ “Irish Dukes never back down …”
★★★★★ “Fight Card on the international beat …”
★★★★★ “Hits harder than an Irish larger …”
Learn more about the Fight Card series at www.fightcardbooks.com.
The latest Fight Card has been released and it looks to be a knockout. You can find Fight Card: Golden Gate Gloves at Amazon.
PRESS RELEASE:
GOLDEN GATE GLOVES (FIGHT CARD)
San Francisco 1951
Conall O’Quinn grew up at St. Vincent’s Asylum For Boys, a Chicago orphanage where he learned the sweet science of boxing from Father Tim, the battling priest. After a stint in the Army, Conall finds work on the docks of San Francisco – a place where his fists make him the dock champion. Soon, however, he gets on the bad side of a union boss and is set up for a dock side brawl designed to knockout his fighting career. When Conall comes out on top, things go from bad to worse when he is framed for the docks going up in flames.
Along with Benson, his best friend and trainer, Conall heads for the hills in search of a lost treasure in the vicinity of a mine controlled by the union boss. However, where Conall goes trouble follows and he is quickly embroiled in a heated grudge match between fist-happy miners and lumberjacks.
Championing the miners in an all out slugfest, Conall is about to find out there is more to fighting than just swinging fists… giant, hammer-fisted lumberjacks, the mine owner’s beautiful daughter, union flunkies, and mob thugs all want a piece of him… and when the opening bell rings, the entire world appears to be against him…
You can learn more about The Fight Card series at www.fightcardbooks.com.
Pulp novels covered a wide range of genres. New Pulp Author Paul Bishop is working with a talented crop of writers to bring back the sweet science to pulp. Welcome to Fight Card.
All Pulp recently sat down with Bish to discuss his writing, the Fight Card Series, and all things pulp. Pulpsters, meet Paul Bishop.
AP: Tell us a little about yourself and your pulp interests.
PB: I’ve been voraciously reading pulp stories since my early twenties starting with reprints from the detective story magazines (such as Black Mask), and eventually moving on to the standard hero tales like the Shadow and Doc Savage. When I started collecting pulps, I found myself drawn to the adventure, sports, and western pulps as they were more affordable and plentiful.
I got hooked first on collecting copies of Argosy and Adventure – magazines containing tale from the likes of H. Beresford Jones, Talbot Mundy, and the swashbuckling tales of George Challis (Max Brand). A long run of Street and Smith’s Sport Story was next as I collected tales by Jackson Scholz under his many pseudonyms. All of this led to Fight Stories Magazine and my fixation and enjoyment of fight fiction, which would eventually inspire the Fight Card series of novelettes I currently write and edit.
AP: How did you get your start as an author?
PB: I broke into writing professionally as a magazine freelancer. I had some success, eventually making my way from writing for law enforcement related magazines (using my background as a detective with the Los Angeles Police Department as fodder) to top rank markets such as Runners World, Parents Magazine, and Psychology Today. I also worked steadily for several years on the full run of Mystery Magazine from its premiere as a slick, through its transformation to digest sized pulp, to its eventual untimely demise.
However, despite my success with non-fiction, what I really wanted to write was fiction and I was finally able to break in by selling a couple of stories to Mike Shayne Mystery Magazine and a brief revival of The Saint mystery magazine. It would be another twenty years and a handful of novels later before I was able to crack the pages of Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, but I eventually published there as well.
As for novels, I began writing paperback original westerns for Pinnacle Books’ Diamondback series (created by Raymond Obstfeld) under the rather appropriate house name Pike Bishop. From there, I moved on to my first cop novel, Citadel Run (now retitled Hot Pursuit as an e-book). Since then there have been ten more novels, a slew of short stories, two-dozen hours of scripted network television, and a feature film – all while staying busy with my LAPD career.
AP: How did the Fight Card series get its start and who is Jack Tunney? What was the appeal of writing boxing stories?
PB: The Fight Card series grew out of a phone conversation with fellow author Mel Odom. I tracked Mel down after reading a pulp-style boxing story (Smoker) he had published as an e-book on Amazon. We quickly found common ground in many areas, including a love of the fight pulps and especially the Sailor Steve Costigan boxing stories by Robert E. Howard. With the advent of e-publishing, we realized we could create new fight stories which could reach and expand the niche audience who would love these stories as much as we did. The concept of the Fight Card series then took on a life of its own.
After Mel and I wrote the first two books in the series, Fight Card: Felony Fists (me) and Fight Card: The Cutman (Mel), a number of hot young authors and a few established pros took notice and signed on with the Fight Card team. We’ll have twelve titles published by the end of 2012 and every one of them is a hard hitting gem.
AP: There seem to be many different opinions about what can be defined as pulp. How do you define pulp and what do you look for in a pulp story as an artist and a reader? Do you consider the Fight Card series books pulp?
PB: The Fight Card novels are definitely in the pulp genre – straight forward, solid, stripped down, slightly larger than life storytelling. It’s what made the original pulps so popular and accessible to a wide audience. The New Pulp movement is definitely bringing the genre back in all its colorful, sensational, glory combining the sizzle of the cover art with story content aimed at more modern sensibilities, but with the values of pulp’s past.
AP: Where do you see the pulp and book industry in the future?
PB: E-publishing is here to stay. Combined with the accessibility and ease of POD for physical books, authors themselves are now the driving force in the writing/publishing business. It’s a great time to be a writer, but there are also whole new skill sets to capture from layout, to promotion, to editing. Yikes! It’s worlds better than traditional publishing for all but the bestselling authors, but some days you wonder if you have to be careful what you wish for.
AP: Is there a particular character out there you haven’t had the chance to work on that you would love to take a crack at writing?
PB: I’ve had some fun writing for previously established characters, especially for the upcoming Nightbeat anthology (based on the radio show of the same name), but I actually prefer to work with my own characters.
AP: Where can readers find information on you and your work?
PB: I can be found blogging at Bish’s Beat (www.bishsbeat.blogspot.com) and on the new Fight Card website (www.fightcardbooks.com) as well as Facebook and Twitter (@bishsbeat).
AP: What upcoming projects do you have coming up that you can tell us about at this time?
PB: 2013 will see Fight Card expanding its brand in several ways. Aside for our traditional monthly offerings of Fight Card tales set in the ‘50s, we will be premiering three or four Fight Card MMA novels (set in the current world of mixed martial arts) and possibly two Fight Card Romance novels (yes, romances) designed to widen the audience for the series as a whole.
I’m also excited about a series of pulp anthologies I’m working on with pulp maven Tommy Hancock (Pro Se Press), which will be out early in the new year. I’m also editing The C.O.B.R.A.S. Files, a collection of swinging ‘60s set spy stories (back when espionage was fun) from The Coalition Of Bloggers wRiting About Spies, which should be a lot of fun.
I’ll also be returning to my cop storytelling roots with a new series, The Interrogators, which will hopefully hit the virtual bookshelves next summer.
AP: Do you have any shows, signings, or conventions coming up where your fans can meet you?
PB: 2013 looks to be a busy year for me promoting Fight Card series in numerous venues. I will be at Pulp Ark in April, where I’ll be premiering my new Fight Card novel Swamp Walloper as well as one of the new Fight Card MMA titles.
AP: And finally, what does Paul Bishop do when he’s not writing?
PB: I teach an intensive, week-long, interrogation course once a month, which keeps me in touch with the law enforcement world. I read as much as I can, work on promoting Fight Card and my other writing projects, and run four or five miles a day to keep my stress levels balanced. After finishing 35 years of working full time with the LAPD, it seems I am busier than ever.
AP: Thanks, Paul. We look forward to reading your new books.
You can learn more about Paul Bishop here and the Fight Card series here.
Want to hear more from paul Bishop? Paul will be a guest on episode 130 of the Earth Station One podcast, going live September 27th at www.esopodcast.com.