tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38495134665343222762024-03-19T02:08:41.236-07:00KNUCKLES AND GLOVESPaul Bishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102723351945251883noreply@blogger.comBlogger431125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849513466534322276.post-25652935017704887582015-07-22T09:30:00.002-07:002015-07-22T09:36:43.780-07:00LIFE IS THE RING ~ WRITING FIGHT CARD: JOB GIRL<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Professional wrestling, when you come right down to it, is sociology, but more on that in a bit. As someone who has watched pro wrestling since 1984 when I was nine years old, I’ve discovered there are three levels of pro wrestling fandom.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the first, which is hopefully confined to childhood, the fan believes the action in the ring is an actual competition rather than the predetermined exhibition it actually is. At the second level, the fan realizes the winners and losers are known before anyone heads to the ring, but can still suspend disbelief and enjoy the action, over-the-top drama and comic book pageantry of one of the only true American art forms.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Then there’s the third level of pro wrestling fandom, in which the fan realizes, yes, the match results are planned ahead of time, but those results, and the champions wearing the belts, are, more often than not, decided by which wrestler has performed better in the ring – and connected better with the audience – over his or her career.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">So, what you really see in the pro wrestling ring is very much a competition, as there are only so many top spots in a given company – and not every wrestler is capable of having the same match, or making the promoter the same money, as every other.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">And that brings us back to sociology.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Once you realize wrestlers really are competing for the top spots in their federations, you realize it is the audience reaction, and the wrestler’s ability to relate to the people in the seats, which most often carries stars to the top.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Because of this fact, some harsh realities of American sociology come into play. White over black. Fit over flab. Men favored more than women. Blonde over brunette.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While there were exceptions to every rule, traditionally, the people most often to get ahead in real life were the ones most likely to wear the World Wrestling Federation Championship and the big, gold belt representing the NWA World Heavyweight Title.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While things aren’t quite as clear-cut along the above described lines in today’s pro wrestling scene – which hopefully is reflective of social change – <em>Fight Card</em> books typically deal with yesteryear, and my latest entry in the series, <em>Job Girl</em> is no different.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Given what we’ve discussed, how do you think a thirty-something redhead, who’s had a baby and her face slashed, would be received in a 1956 suburban Illinois pro wrestling ring? What happens to someone whose life has been one defeat after another when that history translates directly to the often dark reflection of society that is professional wrestling? That’s what <em>Fight Card: Job Girl</em> is about.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">When I wrote <em>Fight Card: Monster Man</em>, my first entry in the series, Vicky was the secondary character who intrigued me most. Given the way her character exited <em>Monster Man</em>, a story which wasn’t hers to begin with, I thought, if <em>Monster Man</em> were to have a sequel, Vicky was the character I wanted to follow on a further adventure.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But Vicky is a woman. And I’m not.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ll admit, my first notion was to go for broke and write this book in first-person from Vicky’s point of view. I quickly decided it would probably come off as a gimmick at best or be a farcical disaster at worst. So, since I’ve never written a close third-person point of view story with a female main character before, I decided that was enough of a challenge.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In the end, I think Vicky and I got on well. I feel I know her. I also understand she is the kind of woman who could get me to do anything, so I hope she didn’t trick me into telling a story more favorable to her than it should be.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If <em>Monster Man</em> was about metaphorical losers, <em>Job Girl</em> is about someone whose lot in life is literal defeat. Vicky has never been anything in the ring but pinned on the canvas looking up at the lights. However, I saw that pattern just might be the catalyst to bring her all the way back, if not to where she started, to someplace she never thought she’d go.</span></span></h1>
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</span><span style="color: yellow;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It’s a wild ride and you’ll join me on it…</span></span></h1>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>JASON CHIREVAS WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>(SEQUEL TO FIGHT CARD: MONSTER MAN)</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">COVER BY</span></strong><br />
<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">CARL YONDER</span></strong></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">A FIGHTER’S TRAIL TO THE ALASKAN GOLD
RUSH</span></span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">This week Duane Spurlock gives us his
take on writing the latest Fight Card release, Fighting Alaska…1900
Alaska…Gold, greed, and gamblers – a dangerous combination in a gold rush
boomtown. Itinerant boxer Jean St. Vrain has a lifetime of rootless wandering
behind him and ten years of knuckle-busting boxing, bar bouncing, and
disillusionment. He wants to call quits to the fight game, but he needs a way
out. Joining a mob of desperate men heading for the Alaskan gold fields, Jean
is caught between crooked judges, crooked businessmen, a soiled dove, and
infamous gunman Wyatt Earp and his cronies. With his future looking as harsh as
the Alaskan landscape, Jean has one chance left – fight again.</span></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span></i><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">DUANE SPURLOCK</span></span></b></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span></b><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>Fighting Alaska</em> came to be
written thanks to several influences, which I can boil down to four: magazine
articles, North Western pulp fiction, histories of the American Wild West, and
movies.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First
and simplest: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Esquire</i> introduced me
to boxing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Oh,
I knew boxing was there – fights were broadcast on TV, and I recall the topics
of Cassius Clay changing his name to Muhammad Ali and then his refusing to
support the Vietnam War being loudly discussed whenever the aunts and uncles
gathered during the period otherwise known as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Summer of Love</i>. But our family was a baseball family. My father
would come home Saturday afternoons for a late lunch so he could watch some of
the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Major League Baseball Game of the
Week</i> broadcast before returning to work. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">During
the evenings, he would sit in the dark on the picnic table and smoke half a
cigar while listening to a game – usually the Braves, sometimes the Cardinals –
on a transistor radio. After the game he would save the second half of his
cigar in a tray on top of the water heater for a future game. He encouraged me
to play baseball starting in the coach-pitch leagues at school starting in the
summer before fifth grade. My interest in the game has continued since then.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">But
boxing was just something outside my ken. The closest thing to boxing I
encountered was watching the weekend broadcasts of Nashville wrestling – the
names and dynamics weren’t so different from the entertainment I got from
reading comic books or watching Tarzan movies (which typically followed the
wrestling matches).</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Until
I opened the Super Sports issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Esquire</i>,
dated October 1974.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It
was in a slithery stack of glossy magazines – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sports Afield</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Field &
Stream</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boys’ Life</i> – at the
barber shop. It was a three-chair shop, but I’d only ever seen two chairs used,
one by the owner, one by whomever was his employee at the time. I’d finally
outgrown the mandatory buzz cut and had been allowed to grow my hair long
enough to comb it with a part. Clearly this was an auspicious sign for
expanding my sporting horizons beyond the baseball diamond. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Among
essays on baseball, basketball, and football, the Super Sports issue carried
only a two-page spread devoted to boxing, and fewer than a dozen words, but the
two photographs by Pierre Houles represented more than two thousand verbs,
nouns, or adjectives: under a hyperbolic headline on page 144, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Actual Size!</i>, was a photo of George
Foreman’s left fist facing a photo of Muhammad Ali’s right fist on page 145.
Both were wrapped in tape. I’m sure my eyes popped like tree galls. I was
flabbergasted, gob smacked, floored. Each of those clenched hands was bigger
than my head!</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Such
was my introduction to boxing.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Like
most of the rest of the country, I was swept along in the mass popularity of
boxing launched by the success of the 1976 Olympic boxing team and its
remarkable lineup of Sugar Ray Leonard, Leon and Michael Spinks, Howard Davis,
Jr., Leo Randolph, Charles Mooney and John Tate. Even after that boom dwindled
as those fighters rolled through their professional careers, I sought out and
read about boxing by writers like A.J. Liebling and Hugh Fullerton – the latter
better known for his investigation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">These
pursuits eventually led me to an article in the February 1998 issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Vanity Fair</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Outlaw Champ</i> by Nick Tosches, which he expanded into my
favorite nonfiction book on boxing, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The
Devil and Sonny Liston</i> (also published later under Tosches’ original title,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Night Train</i>).</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Second
influence: The Wild West.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve
been a reader of westerns since I discovered a copy of Zane Grey’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Lone Star Ranger</i> at the local
library. I shared a name with its protagonist – Buck Duane – and with a last
name like Spurlock, I seemed destined to be interested in cowboys. Western
fiction eventually led me to North Western fiction – a subgenre exploited by
Jack London, James Oliver Curwood, Jules Verne, Frederick Faust (Max Brand),
Ryerson Johnson, James Hendryx, Rex Beach and others. These authors anchored
the plots for most of their writing in this field with the Yukon and Alaska
gold rush. The extremes of the natural world in this setting – the terrible
cold, snow and ice, the rugged geography serving as a barrier between the gold
and men’s desire to possess it – required the writers to push their characters
to the limits of their physical and mental endurance. In cases, to survive,
characters had to exceed those limits. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Hemingway’s
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">grace under pressure</i> rarely appears
in these North Western narratives. Characters go to the brink and jump into the
abyss. This quality is part of what makes North Western stories appealing to me
– men and women must survive in what can only be described as an alien
landscape…Alien, yet still located on Earth…and these people willingly put
themselves into this struggle against Nature and against human nature.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">My
interest in the Wild West, and thence to North Western fiction, led to the
third influence on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fighting Alaska</i>:
historical studies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I’ve
read a lot of books on Wild West history, and my stories are usually informed
by some element of my reading. The University of Nebraska’s Bison Books imprint
is a favorite resource for me.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">One
of the most popular topics for historians and readers in this period is, not
surprisingly, the gunfight at the OK Corral. A remarkable number of novels and
movies have used this event as a dramatic focus in their narratives. The people
involved were all, in one fashion or another, fascinating. As a result, I’ve
read a lot of books about Wyatt Earp and Doc Holliday.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
mainstream knowledge about Earp focuses on Tombstone and its famous gunfight.
But Wyatt Earp had quite a career and life beyond that 1881 shootout. And his
time in Alaska during its gold rush aligns well with my interest in North West
fiction and its natural (for me, at least) extension to North West history. The
historical record of actual people’s experiences in the Yukon and Klondike are,
in many cases, far more dramatic and violent than the fictional narratives. For
example, the audacity of federal judge Arthur Noyes’ using the law to jump mining
claims in Nome, Alaska, sounds more like melodrama than truth. But the North West
at that time was just a colder version of the wide-open Wild West towns
pictured in many, many films.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Which
brings me to the fourth influence on <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fighting
Alaska</i>: movies.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The
obvious Hollywood productions aren’t on this list – <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Raging Bull</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rocky</i>, and
so forth. Instead, the movies that stuck in my mind for years and that colored <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fighting Alaska</i> in some fashion were
lesser-known works that still deserve viewing: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Emperor of the North</i> (1973) and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hard
Times</i> (1975). Both films feature excellent character actors famous for
their tough-guy roles – Lee Marvin, Ernest Borgnine and Keith Carradine in the
former, and Charles Bronson and James Coburn in the latter. </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Charles
Bronson’s character in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hard Times</i>,
Chaney, is a reluctant, but effective, bare-knuckles fighter who certainly
influenced the character of Jean St. Vrain in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fighting Alaska</i>. But instead of Bronson, it was a grizzled Randolph
Scott I pictured in my mind’s eye as the physical model for St. Vrain – the
rough-featured Scott of those western films he made with Budd Boetticher in the
late 1950s.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">All
these ingredients simmered in my head until the idea for <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fighting Alaska</i> bubbled up – a tale about a boxer in the North Western
gold rush who meets Wyatt Earp. The <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight
Card</i> crew certainly has my thanks for providing an outlet for these
characters and situations.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>DUANE SPURLOCK WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>1900 Alaska…Gold, greed, and gamblers – a dangerous
combination in a gold rush boomtown. Itinerant boxer Jean St. Vrain has a
lifetime of rootless wandering behind him and ten years of knuckle-busting
boxing, bar bouncing, and disillusionment. He wants to call quits to the fight
game, but he needs a way out. Joining a mob of desperate men heading for the Alaskan
gold fields, Jean is caught between crooked judges, crooked businessmen, a
soiled dove, and infamous gunman Wyatt Earp and his cronies. With his future
looking as harsh as the Alaskan landscape, Jean has one chance left – fight
again.<o:p></o:p></em></span></span></span></div>
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Boxing Fiction of Robert E. Howard</i>. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
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measures in at 347 pages (plus introductory material). It is printed in
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individually numbered. Cover art by Tom Gianni and introduction by Mark Finn. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Intro: “A Boy and His Dog” by Mark Finn</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">KID ALLISON</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Man with the Mystery Mitts<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Kid Galahad<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
College Socks<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
The Wild Cat and the Star<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Fighting Nerves (Kid Allison version)</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MIKE DORGAN AND BILL
MCGLORY</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The House of Peril<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
One Shanghai Night<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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The Tomb of the Dragon</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">OTHER TALES</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Sign of the Snake<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
The Fighting Fury<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Fighting Nerves (Jim O’Donnel version)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Fists of the Desert<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Fists of the Revolution</span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">MISCELLANEA</span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Jinx<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
Fistic Psychology<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">
The Drawing Card<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Untitled fragment (“Huh,” I was so . . .)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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A Tough Nut to Crack (Allison version)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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A Tough Nut to Crack (Clarney version)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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One Shanghai Night – synopsis<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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Untitled notes (Knute Hansen)<o:p></o:p></span></span><br />
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The Lord of the Ring, (part 4), by Patrice Louinet</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Deptford, England, 1888 … Richard Stokes – one half of a tag-team carnival boxing duo – has vanished, leaving his loving wife, pugilist Eby Stokes, homeless and penniless with only questions and no answers. A mutual friend asks Holmes to look into the disappearance. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Watson believes the matter to be a common case of abandonment, and Holmes’ interest merely an excuse to try his hand in the boxing booths of a visiting circus. However, when they are almost killed, Holmes and Watson’s only remaining clue to Stokes disappearance harkens back to a boxing club disbanded in shame more than sixty years earlier. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Why did Stokes abandon his wife? What possible significance could the long extinct Pugilistic Club have in the matter? Who is behind the fire that almost took the lives of Holmes and Watson? </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Joining forces with Eby Stokes, Holmes and Watson are determined to find the answers. The kaleidoscope lights of the carnival hide many secrets, including a threat to the foundation of the British Empire. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">While Work Capitol was full of links to the Canon, Blood to the Bone refers more frequently to historical events of the 1880s, ending with a fictionalized explanation for one of the most famous photographs in history (which I will not name, as it would spoil the effect). I enjoyed the historical links and references very much, and loved the solution of the story, which reads almost like an action film – the images conjured up by Salmon’s words are that vivid.</span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>The case itself is a complex and dangerous one, which sees Holmes and Watson having a close brush with death more than once, and every bit as good as Doyle wrote his cases. I had long wanted to read this story, but was kept from it by work, but now that I sat down again to read it I couldn’t stop and finished it in one go. It’s beautiful prose and while not always sounding true to Doyle, the writing style draws you in and involves you almost physically. Salmon makes you feel the incredible heat of the place when Watson steps inside a crowded bar from the bitter cold. There are many passages in the text where I just stopped to enjoy the words, which is a rare thing in Sherlock Holmes pastiches or any kind of novel these days.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong><em>YORKTOWN THIS WEEK</em> HAS PUBLISHED AN EXTENSIVE AND LAUDATORY INTERVIEW WITH <em>FIGHT CARD SHERLOCK HOLMES</em> AUTHOR ANDREW SALMON AND A REVIEW OF HIS LATEST TWO-FISTED VICTORIAN OUTING, <em>BLOOD TO THE BONE</em> ... </strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Salmon gets it right with Holmes in this book. It is a worthy member of the upper echelon of non-Doyle books with Holmes as the central figure, and that to me is all you can ask as a fan of the great detective.</em></span> </span><br />
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JANUARY 2015</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our latest Fight Card MMA title, Blood Feud, features Tim
Tresslar masquerading as Jack Tunney. Tim has a strong background writing men’s
action adventure novels and, in Blood Feud, he gives us a wonderful idea of
what a Mack Bolan/ Fight Card mash up might look like.</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD MMA: BLOOD
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Dubai, 2015…David
Garrett never could walk away from a fight. Even when a covert mission to nab a
terrorist went wrong, leaving fellow CIA agents dead and Garrett holding the
bag, he had to be forced to stand down. </span></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Angry and
disillusioned, he returned to his native Chicago where he engaged in
off-the-books bouts for money, settled scores and made new enemies. Still, the
unfinished business eats at him. Then Melissa, his former lover and fellow CIA
agent, surfaces. She tells him one of the men responsible for the debacle in
Iraq has surfaced. Like Garrett, the man is a fighter and on the card for an
exhibition bout in Dubai. Would Garrett come back for one last mission? Garrett
never could walk away from a fight. Even one that could kill him… </span></span></i><br />
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">"This one-two
punch from Tim Tresslar has a power not seen since Ali beat Frazier. Blood Feud
is a smoking-hot thriller guaranteed to hit so hard you'll see stars the next
day still. Go get it – and prepare to stay up all night reading. Yeah, it's
that good." Bestselling author Shane Gericke, The Fury</span></span></i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As Fight Card enters 2015 our schedule, due to books on
hand, will more than likely be changing to publication every two months. We do
have a third Fight Card Sherlock Holmes coming from Andrew Salmon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Job Girl</i> – the sequel to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Monster Man</i> – from Jason Chirevas, a yet
to be titled outing from Walt Lang, and several other irons heating in the
fire.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Thanks to everyone for all you do for Fight Card…</span></span><br />
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2015…David Garrett never could walk away from a fight. Even when a covert
mission to nab a terrorist went wrong, leaving fellow CIA agents dead and
Garrett holding the bag, he had to be forced to stand down. </em></span></span></div>
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and disillusioned, he returned to his native Chicago where he engaged in
off-the-books bouts for money, settled scores and made new enemies. Still, the
unfinished business eats at him. Then Melissa, his former lover and fellow CIA
agent, surfaces. She tells him one of the men responsible for the debacle in
Iraq has surfaced. Like Garrett, the man is a fighter and on the card for an
exhibition bout in Dubai. Would Garrett come back for one last mission? Garrett
never could walk away from a fight. Even one that could kill him…</em></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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and disillusioned, he returned to his native Chicago where he engaged in
off-the-books bouts for money, settled scores and made new enemies. Still, the
unfinished business eats at him. Then Melissa, his former lover and fellow CIA
agent, surfaces. She tells him one of the men responsible for the debacle in
Iraq has surfaced. Like Garrett, the man is a fighter and on the card for an
exhibition bout in Dubai. Would Garrett come back for one last mission? Garrett
never could walk away from a fight. Even one that could kill him…</em></span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">ON WRITING
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></b><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Blood to the Bone is
the second Fight Card Sherlock Holmes tale to be penned by award winning
Sherlockian author Andrew Salmon. His first Fight Card Sherlock Holmes novel,
Work Capitol, is also available on as a Kindle e-book and in paperback…</span></span></span></i><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The first novel in
the Fight Card Sherlock Holmes series, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Work
Capitol</i>, presented a number of daunting challenges. Not only did I have to
learn how Victorian fighters plied their trade, but also how Sherlock Holmes
would put his inimitable spin on the science of pugilism. Added to that was the
responsibility of discerning how Watson would describe a fight in the language
of the time.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Research and a lot of
pondering led me to the solutions. Hearing from readers since the book's
release, I was pleased to see these solutions were met with positive reactions.
The book even snagged an award nomination along the way. Holmes fans enjoyed
the book, which was a tremendous relief to me and the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card</i> team.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Now, all I had to do
was pull it off again! More than that, actually, as the second book could not
and should not be just more of the same. No matter how much readers liked <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Work Capitol</i>, the new one had to be
different. We writers don't like to repeat ourselves.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Well, with the fight
stuff all worked out and a first attempt at determining how Watson would
narrate a boxing match successfully under my belt, I felt I was slightly ahead
of the game. Also, in my research for the first book, I had collected a vast treasure
trove of information, trivia, dates, events, names, places, etc.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">One of those pieces
was supposed to be an important clue for Holmes to discover in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Work Capitol</i> – except, when all was said
and done, I'd forgotten to use it! So, I had that in my back pocket for the
second book as well. Hey, it was a good clue – far too important to throw away.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Next came a read
through of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's bare knuckle boxing novel, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rodney Stone</i>, to set the tone. The novel
provided me with an opportunity to pay homage to Doyle – we must never forget,
it is his sandbox modern day Holmes scribblers play in after all. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My tip of the
deerstalker takes the form of the pub Holmes, Watson, and my female fighter
visit as the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Waggon and Horses</i> is
visited by Doyle's characters in his book. What's funny, when you think about
it, is that, really, two sets of his characters visit the pub a century apart
in real time. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rodney Stone</i> also gave
me the title for my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood to the
Bone</i>, from a phrase used to describe a true blue fighter common at the time.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">With all of the above
in my corner, I felt pretty good about the next book. And the research sealed
the deal. We historical fiction writers are like fishermen. We cast our nets
upon history in the hope of finding something interesting, something different,
unsung, something today's readers may or may not know about, but we think
they'd get a kick out of reading about.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">My nets landed smack
dab in the middle of the forgotten Victorian <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">female</i> pugilists of the 1800s. As the first book had not featured a
female lead, this find immediately struck me as something different yet still
staying well within the world of bare knuckle boxing. Endless research showed
me the female fight game was a great element, which simply couldn't be ignored.
</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But how the heck was
Holmes going to fight in the women's ring? Stumbling upon the tag-team aspect
of women's boxing saved the day. Discovering that couples used to face off
against other couples with the ability to tag up like wrestlers and switch
partners saved my bacon. Holmes and my female lead could now step up to the
scratch line together. Phew!</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">But what brought them
together? Wait a minute! Tag-team couples! What if a husband in one of these
tag-teams suddenly disappeared and Holmes and Watson were asked to investigate?
Yeah, that would work. Okay, I had Victorian circuses, the forgotten boxing
booths of the time, the somewhat obscure history of female bare knuckle boxing,
a couple of other little known chapters of history (too spoilerish to talk
about here) and a lunar eclipse thrown in for good measure. We were off to the
races.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Then tragedy struck.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had my ducks in a
row, the opening scenes playing out in my mind and on my computer screen as I
typed away, when my wife's best friend, Linda Gavin, passed away suddenly in
July. Best friend? They had been as close as sisters these last 18 years. My
wife's grief took precedence and the tale was set aside as we struggled through
the shock of it. There was the celebration of life memorial to attend as well
and this was a moving, unforgettable event – one we should all hope for when
our time comes.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">It was during this
sad time I got the idea to model the female fighter in my Holmes tale after
Linda. No small tribute, as Linda was a strong believer in gender equality and
would have adored the character of Eby Stokes but, also, her husband, Doug, was
a life-long Sherlock Holmes fan. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had named a
character after Doug in two previous Holmes tales a different publisher had brought
out in recent years much to Doug's delight. As one always feel helpless when
tragedy strikes another, here was something I could do for Doug, and he was
moved when I told him of my plans at the memorial. I told him I would be
dedicating the book to Linda as well as changing the name of my female fighter
to Eby Stokes – Eby being Linda's maiden name.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I took things a step
further by asking cover artist Mike Fyles if he would be willing to use Linda's
likeness for his depiction of Eby Stokes. Mike's a great guy and readily
agreed. I sent him off a pair of shots of Linda in her youth (boxing is a young
man's and young woman's game) and he came back with the incredible cover you
see on the book.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Things got a little
spooky with the cover.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Take a look at his rendition
of Eby Stokes. She does indeed resemble Linda, but what he did not know was
that she <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">always</i> posed for photos with
her hair down in front of her left shoulder. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Always</i> – except in the shots I sent Mike, as these had been shots
of her in her youth. </span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">I had made no mention
of it to Mike, wanting him to be free to go where his considerable talent took
him. Yet there is Eby Stokes with her hair hanging down in front of her left
shoulder! Coincidence? Something more? We can each come up with our own answers.
It sent chills down my spine, that's all I have to say about it.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As I gradually got
back to writing the tale, the book took on more personal importance to me.
Holmes tales deal with logic, deduction and adventure, not overburdened by
emotion. This being my eighth Holmes tale, I was well versed in this. But now
the book was to be my tribute to our departed friend. I had to make it a
fitting tribute and I had to create an Eby Stokes to make Linda proud.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Have I succeeded?
That's up to you, dear readers. I gave it everything I had, but the proof is in
the reading, and I hope the story entertains and keeps you guessing.</span></span></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><br />
<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">It was a bitter-sweet
experience writing <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood to the Bone</i>.
Thanks for getting this far with me and I hope you enjoy the book.</span></span><br />
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FEMALE BOXERS </span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ENTER HALL OF FAME</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; line-height: 115%;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">ANDREW
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the second Fight Card Sherlock Holmes tale to be penned by award winning
Sherlockian author Andrew Salmon. His first Fight Card Sherlock Holmes novel,
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">The </span></strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.bareknuckleboxinghalloffame.com/index.html"><span style="color: magenta;">Bare Knuckle
Boxing Hall of Fame</span></a><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> in Belfast, New York held an
induction ceremony on July 12th, 2014, where the great, unsung female boxing
greats of the Victorian age took their place amongst the legendary male
fighters of yesteryear as part of the rich history of the sport.</span></strong></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><strong><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Elizabeth Wilkinson
(Stokes): </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Winner
of first ever recorded female bare knuckle fight in 1722.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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publicity to the sport in the 1880s.</span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></strong></span></span></div>
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1884.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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knockouts before losing to Hattie Leslie.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></strong></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Hessie Donahue: </span></strong><strong><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-weight: normal; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Knocked out John L. Sullivan in 1892.</span></strong></span></span></div>
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of modern day women pugilists, join the ranks of past inductees, including John
L. Sullivan, Jem Mace, James Figg, Jack Dempsey and dozens of others.</span></span></span></strong></div>
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Blood to the Bone is the second Fight Card Sherlock Holmes tale to be penned by award winning Sherlockian author Andrew Salmon. His first Fight Card Sherlock Holmes novel, Work Capitol, is also available on as a Kindle e-book and in paperback...</em><o:p></o:p></span></span></span></span></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Elizabeth
Stokes,
Anna Lewis, Hattie Stewart, Alice Leary,
Hattie Leslie, Hessie Donahue, Cecil
Richards, Dolly Adams, Polly Burns – if these names are
unfamiliar to you, then keep reading.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The women listed
above were just a few of the many great women pugilists of the Victorian age.
Not much is known about these accomplished fighters because the press at the
time rarely covered their matches unless to either ridicule them or call for
their abolishment. Society, for the most part, looked down on female fighters in
that bygone age (some would maintain people still do) and, as a result, the
matches were rarely advertised. It is only recently that their rich history is
gradually being stitched together. The </span><a href="http://www.bareknuckleboxinghalloffame.com/id13.html"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Bare Knuckle Boxing
Hall of Fame</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"> just inducted its first batch of female fighters this past
July.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Women fighters
have been around since ancient times, but for the sake of this overview we'll
limit our focus to the dawn of female prize fighting. The Hall of Fame's
coordinator, Scott Burt, tells us it all began with Elizabeth Stokes. As the
winner of the first ever recorded female bare knuckle boxing fight in 1722,
Stokes fought Hannah Hyfield for a prize of three guineas. The women fought
with a half a crown in one fist. The first to drop the money, lost the fight.
This set a precedent for future fights. This was a smart addition to the
women's Fancy, as the closed fist cut down on scratching and gouging.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Much like its
male counterpart, women's bare knuckle boxing began with very different rules. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The womanly art</i> allowed hair pulling,
kicking, kneeing, scratching and gouging to all parts of the body. Wrestling
throws were also legal, making the sport more a primitive form of mixed martial
arts than simply boxing. As such, it displayed a marked similarity to the <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Boxe Francaise</i> or <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Savate</i> fighting, which combined boxing with a variety of kicks
using both heel and toe. </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The fights were
brutal and savage affairs. As a result, the women were often severely injured,
and some died in the ring. Usually trained by men, either their husbands or
fellow pugilists, the women fought men as well as each other, sometimes winning
despite the tremendous risks. There were exceptions, such as the time Hessie
Donahue knocked out John L. Sullivan during an exhibition bout when Sullivan
angered her by accidently hitting her too hard.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The women often
boxed bare chested. This served two functions. The first served the promoters
with the obvious salacious draw of sweaty, topless women punching away at each
other, but there was a sound reason for this as well. Without antibiotics of
any kind, the risk of infection ran high. Dirty fabric pressed into open cuts
incurred during a fight could mean death for a fighter. And injuries did not
just result from a fist or boot heel. There was the very real risk of the
various wires found in female clothing of the time puncturing the skin as well.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Women's bare
knuckle boxing became popular on both sides of the Atlantic as the eighteenth
century drew to a close despite being considered indecent and unladylike by
many. Women's boxing classes were held in gymnasiums everywhere, but catered
mostly to the upper class. </span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As the sport was
open to all comers and substantial prizes were to be had. This prize money far
exceeded what the lower or middle class women could earn at other jobs. As a
result, despite the risk, the temptation to toe the line was, for many, the
only avenue out of poverty. For others, it was an opportunity to escape the
confines society placed on them, to be strong, independent and capable.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">By the 1880s,
women's boxing flourished in dance halls and at fairgrounds where women put on
boxing displays and/or sparring with fair goers and engaged in tag–team fights
where male and female teams (often husband and wife) squared off against each
other with a tag to switch partners. As the 19th century drew to a close, the
sport, still frowned upon by the press, gained more respectability. Bare
knuckles eventually gave way to gloves as the Queensberry Rules were put in
place.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The sport
continued into the 20th century and was even an exhibition sport at the St.
Louis World's Fair/Olympics in 1904. It was also considered an excellent way
for a young lady to stay healthy and safe well into the 1950s, though by then,
the sport had lost most of its ferocity. By the 1970s, women boxers began to
fight in greater earnest to secure the rights and opportunities their male
counterparts enjoyed.</span></span></span><br />
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<span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif;"></span><span lang="EN-CA" style="font-family: "Bookman Old Style",serif; font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">If you want to
delve deeper into the world of female bare knuckle boxing, check out the Hall's
website above or pop over to this Russian site, </span><a href="http://www.fscclub.com/main/main.shtml"><span style="color: magenta; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Female Single Combat Club</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">,
which offers both English and Russian versions of its pages. Here they explore
the history in depth and I'm indebted to them for the research materials I
found at the site.</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I
am delighted with the strength of the final two <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card</i> titles for 2014.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>As we wrap-up three years of monthly novelettes with 40 published titles
(including two <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card</i> charity
anthologies), the stories in the series are as vibrant and hard-hitting as when
we started.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">First
up in November is <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Iron Fists of Ned
Kelly</i>, the third <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card</i> novel
from the battered typewriter of our man from the land down under, David Foster
(<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">King of the Outback</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Rumble in the Jungle</i>). This is a piece
of historical fiction – featuring Australia’s infamous outlaw, Ned Kelly –
which David was destined to write. A rip-snorting true tale of a man done wrong
who has a chance to even the score the best way he knows how – with his fists.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The Iron Fists of Ned Kelly</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> also features a knockout cover from
illustrator Mike Fyles, who has also turned in another dynamite cover for our
second <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card Sherlock Holmes</i> outing
from Andrew Salmon, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Blood to the Bone</i>,
which will be our December Fight Card title.</span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD: THE IRON FISTS OF NED
KELLY</span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></b><br />
<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">"I wish to acquaint you with some
of the occurrences present past and future." Edward Kelly – The Jerilderie
Letter 1879 </span></em></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">The story of Australia's ironclad
outlaw, Ned Kelly, has been told countless times in film, book, and song. The
shootout at Stringybark Creek and the infamous siege at Glenrowan are events
which shaped the nation – but there is more to Ned’s story, including the character
defining, bareknuckle, scrap with feared bar-room brawler, Isaiah 'Wild' Wright.
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ned was only sixteen when he rode into
the township of Greta on a horse loaned to him by Wright. Ned had no idea the
horse was stolen, but he was still arrested, beaten, and sentenced to three
years hard labor.</span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></i><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Ned can't get those years back, but he
can make the horse thief pay for his deception. With honour and justice at
stake, two of the hardest men of all time will come to scratch in a battle for
the ages. </span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></span></i><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></i><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">A story of betrayal, revenge, and
ultimately friendship, </span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The
Iron Fists of Ned Kelly<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> is another
rollicking tale from the author of </i>King of the Outback<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">.</i></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Along
with his Fight Card entries, David is also the author – under his James Hopwood
pseudonym – of two novels (The Librio Defection / The Danakil Deception)
featuring swinging sixties neophyte British agent Jarvis Love. Both are
available from Amazon and are must reads for anyone who enjoys their spy
fiction with the cool vibe of the swinging sixties when martinis were served
shaken not stirred.</span></span><br />
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thx this month to Bobby Nash for his efforts in providing FaceBook banners for
so many of our titles …</span></span><br />
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next month … </span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Keep
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>JUST RELEASED ~ FIGHT CARD: FELONY FISTS ~ AUDIO!</strong></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Los Angeles 1954. Patrick "Felony" Flynn has been fighting all his life. Learning the "sweet science" from Father Tim the fighting priest at St. Vincent's, the Chicago orphanage where Pat and his older brother Mickey were raised, Pat has battled his way around the world - first with the Navy and now with the Los Angeles Police Department. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Legendary LAPD chief William Parker is on a rampage to clean up both the department and the city. His elite crew of detectives known as The Hat Squad is his blunt instrument - dedicated, honest, and fearless. Promotion from patrol to detective is Pat's goal, but he also yearns to be one of the elite - and his fists are going to give him the chance. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Gangster Mickey Cohen runs LA's rackets, and murderous heavyweight Solomon King is Cohen's key to taking over the fight game. Chief Parker wants Patrick "Felony" Flynn to stop him - a tall order for middleweight ship's champion with no professional record. Leading with his chin, and with his partner, LA's first black detective Tombstone Jones, covering his back, Patrick Flynn and his Felony Fists are about to fight for his future, the future of the department, and the future of Los Angeles.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><strong>FIGHT CARD: THE IRON FISTS OF NED KELLY!</strong></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: large;">A TALE OF THE AUSTRALIAN OUTBACK LIKE YOU'VE NEVER READ BEFORE...THE NOTORIOUS AUSTRALIAN OUTLAW NED KELLY IN A TRUE-LIFE FIGHT TO THE FINISH... </span></strong>Paul Bishophttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02102723351945251883noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3849513466534322276.post-2588537521776838552014-10-16T21:07:00.002-07:002014-10-16T21:07:25.350-07:00FIGHT CARD AND HISTORY<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD AND
HISTORY</span></b><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">JOSEPH GRANT</span></b><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">I was drawn to write Guns of November by the opportunity to
look at the JFK Assassination from a historical fiction viewpoint. Facts keep
the story rooted in reality, with an occasional observation snuck in for the
author. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Fiction allows the writer and the reader (it is hoped) to
dust off the history of an incident, shake it up, and in so doing become a part
of history through the characters – experiencing the emotions and tumult of the
time. The writer of historical fiction uses a broader brush and more colorful
palette to paint his canvas, giving a different light to staid black and white
facts while still coloring inside the lines of history. The experience of
bringing facts to life from a different perspective is what makes historical
fiction so exciting for me – telling a story as it happened, but using poetic
license to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large; mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><br />
<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">By using fictional characters to tell a factual story, I
believe the author can give the reader a wider understanding of the factual personage
and their motives. In the case of the JFK assassination, an event that still
resonates today, I was forced to address many issues…Did Oswald act alone? Did
Oswald even fire a rifle? Where did Jack Ruby suddenly come into being from
waiting the wings of obscurity? Was Ruby a concerned citizen or a Mafia pawn?
Why did Ruby take the actions he did – to Jackie Kennedy from testifying as
he'd said, or were there other, more sinister motives at hand? </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Even when someone writes what is accepted historical fact,
there is always a basis of opinion behind it. In writing historical fiction, a
la Gore Vidal's, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Lincoln</i>, we are able
to understand Lincoln in a clearer sense behind the dusty, one-dimensional
figure of the history text books we read in school. Fiction, rather than fact,
brings a person to life. Non-fiction, newspaper, and TV news are questionably accurate
because, in the end, they are basically approved objective opinion that goes
from copy to print. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Historical fiction works because it brings the reader into
the character's lives through a broader respect. Characters in fiction do
things factual characters do, but without the real world context. A person
reading a news story probably isn’t concerned if a real-life figure had
breakfast or not unless it mattered to the timeline of the news article.
Conversely, in fiction, breakfast may lead readers around the corner to a whole
slew of clues. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Through historical fiction, a reader can find closure on the
gaping holes of an historical event – why Oswald left his wedding ring at home,
or why he left the School Book Depository after the shooting. In reality, we
are never truly able to sort through the conflicting suppositions of approved
opinion. In fiction, we find closure as the author moves the story forward
fitting the pieces to give us a whole new slant on the puzzle – one in which
the pieces actually fit. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">In telling Guns of November, there may be readers who
disagree with the avenues to which I've directed the story. It is up to them to
base their conclusions on who, what, where and why. It is my job to write a
story. While this story is not the truth, it has been based on truths and I've
done my best to tell it. I would wager to say it’s closer to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">the truth</i> than the final fiction we've
been told is truth.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">ABOUT THE AUTHOR:</b>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Pushcart Prize nominee, Joseph Grant is also the author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Fight Card: The Last Round of Archie Mannis</i>.
His short stories have been published in over 235 literary reviews such as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Byline</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">New Authors Journal</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Underground
Voices</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Midwest Literary Magazine</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Inwood Indiana Literary Review</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Hack Writers</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Six Sentences</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Literary Mary</i>,
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">NexGenPulp</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Is This Reality Zine</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Darkest
Before Dawn</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">strangeroad.com</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">FarAway Journal</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Full of Crow</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Heroin Love
Songs</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Bewildering Stories</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Writing Raw</i>, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Unheard Magazine</i>, and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Absent
Willow Literary Review</i>.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FIGHT CARD: THE GUNS
OF NOVEMBER</b><o:p> </o:p></span></span><br />
<o:p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span></o:p><br />
<o:p></o:p><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">November, 1963...Sent
to Dallas by Attorney General Robert Kennedy to investigate the disappearance
of a boxer connected to a major Civil Rights violation, FBI Special Agent Jim
Gregory finds himself desperately trading punches with those plotting to change
the course of history.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Kidnapped, beaten,
tied up, and blindfolded, young boxer Jimmy Lee Williams knows his situation is
dire. Nicknamed Guns for the relentless firing power of his fists, Williams
isn’t going to go down without a fight. However, this is no typical
15-rounder...and the clock is ticking toward disaster. </span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">Mixing with a
disparate group of Cuban exiles, the Mafia, the FBI, the CIA, and corrupt
Dallas Police, Gregory’s search for Williams takes him into the heart of the
JFK conspiracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the Carousel Club,
owner Jack Ruby – Gregory's old Chicago boxing opponent – introduces the
undercover FBI agent to his many shady contacts, including a young, ex-Marine
and Communist defector named Oswald…a man with unusual intelligence and
connections to both the FBI and the CIA.</span></i><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"></span><br />
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">With disaster looming,
the latest Fight Card novel, Guns of November, is a two-fisted take on the
tragic events you thought you knew, but never imagined... </span></i><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD UPDATE ~
OCTOBER 2014</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">Our October Fight Card title, Guns of November, with Joseph
Grant (Fight Card: The Last Round of Archie Mannis) behind the Jack Tunney
moniker, has slid into publication. It also sports a beautiful cover by Carl
Yonder, who continues to go the distance for Fight Card …</span></span><br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD: THE GUNS
OF NOVEMBER</span></span></b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>November, 1963...Sent to Dallas by Attorney General Robert
Kennedy to investigate the disappearance of a boxer connected to a major Civil
Rights violation, FBI Special Agent Jim Gregory finds himself desperately
trading punches with those plotting to change the course of history.</em></span></span><br />
<em></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Kidnapped, beaten, tied up, and blindfolded, young boxer
Jimmy Lee Williams knows his situation is dire. Nicknamed Guns for the
relentless firing power of his fists, Williams isn’t going to go down without a
fight. However, this is no typical 15-rounder...and the clock is ticking toward
disaster. </em></span></span><br />
<em></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>Mixing with a disparate group of Cuban exiles, the Mafia,
the FBI, the CIA, and corrupt Dallas Police, Gregory’s search for Williams
takes him into the heart of the JFK conspiracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the Carousel Club, owner Jack Ruby – Gregory's old Chicago boxing
opponent – introduces the undercover FBI agent to his many shady contacts,
including a young, ex-Marine and Communist defector named Oswald…a man with
unusual intelligence and connections to both the FBI and the CIA.</em></span></span><br />
<em></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><em>With disaster looming, the latest Fight Card novel, Guns of
November, is a two-fisted take on the tragic events you thought you knew, but
never imagined... </em></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">As always any mentions on blogs or social networking are
very much appreciated.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">November will mark the return of Fight Card veteran David
Foster with a brilliant take on Australia’s most notorious outlaw. The Iron
Fists of Ned Kelly is rooted in fact, telling the tale of the legendary
bare-knuckle boxing match between Kelly and Wild Wright – the man Kelly held
responsible for his three year incarceration for horse stealing. Great stuff!</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;">The Iron Fists of Ned Kelly will feature a fantastic cover
from the talented Mike Fyles, who also provides the cover for our second Fight
Card Sherlock Holmes title – Blood to the Bone – from Andrew Salmon…</span></span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"></span></span><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">ANOTHER TWO-FISTED FIGHT CARD TALE...JOSEPH GRANT WRITING AS JACK TUNNEY... </span></strong><br />
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<strong><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;">FIGHT CARD: GUNS OF NOVEMBER</span></strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>November, 1963...Sent to Dallas by Attorney General Robert
Kennedy to investigate the disappearance of a boxer connected to a major Civil
Rights violation, FBI Special Agent Jim Gregory finds himself desperately trading
punches with those plotting to change the course of history.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Kidnapped, beaten, tied up, and blindfolded, young boxer Jimmy
Lee Williams knows his situation is dire. Nicknamed Guns for the relentless
firing power of his fists, Williams isn’t going to go down without a fight. However,
this is no typical 15-rounder...and the clock is ticking toward disaster. </em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>Mixing with a disparate group of Cuban exiles, the Mafia,
the FBI, the CIA, and corrupt Dallas Police, Gregory’s search for Williams
takes him into the heart of the JFK conspiracy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In the Carousel Club, owner Jack Ruby – Gregory's old Chicago boxing
opponent – introduces the undercover FBI agent to his many shady contacts, including
a young, ex-Marine and Communist defector named Oswald…a man with unusual intelligence
and connections to both the FBI and the CIA.</em></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: large;"><em>With disaster looming, the latest Fight Card novel, Guns of
November, is a two-fisted take on the tragic events you thought you knew, but
never imagined...</em></span> </span><br />
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