NOW AVAILABLE: FIGHT CARD ~ TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!

NOW AVAILABLE: FIGHT CARD ~ TOMATO CAN COMEBACK!

HARD-PUNCHING FIGHT FICTION FOR THE NEW PULP GENERATION …

TOMATO CAN COMEBACK

JACK TUNNEY

KINDLE EDITION $2.99

Tom Garrick had a heart of gold, a jaw of iron, and heavy artillery in both fists. This orphan from the Windy City returned from the Korean War to battle his way up the welterweight ranks, inspiring speculation about a title bid. Then he slugged it out with a top contender who humiliated him over eleven rounds and cut short his victory march.

Popular opinion was he had been exposed as a lucky pretender. The newspapers dubbed him "Tomato Can" after watching the blood splatter around the ring like tomato juice from a tin can being battered by a tire iron.

Now, for some mysterious reason, 'Tomato Can' Garrick is lacing on the gloves again, hoping for a shot at redemption. He has no promoter, no manager, not even a sparring partner. The only one in his corner is a buddy from the war who has never been inside the boxing game before.

There's a punch-drunk pantheon of bums, brawlers and cutthroat contenders just waiting to pound him into Palookaville ... a lonely war widow with her claws in his heart ... and a regimen of dubious training methods which may do more harm than good to his chances. But Garrick isn't going to go down in history as "the Tomato Can" without a fight.

BOXING PULPS ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL!

BOXING PULPS ON THE COMEBACK TRAIL!

HANK BROWN (AUTHOR OF THE UPSOMING FIGHT CARD: TOMATO CAN COMEBACK) INTERVIEWS ME IN HIS LATEST DOUBLE-OUGHT PULP COLUMN OVER AT THE NEW PULP WEBSITE . . .

New Pulp is not just catching on; it's catching fire. There is more exposure to the classic pulps every day, and more authors publishing new pulpesque material. This year I caught wind of a new series resurrecting a long-forgotten pulp genre, and just had to check it out.

The series is called Fight Card. It is a throwback to the boxing pulps of yesteryear, brainstormed by Paul Bishop and Mel Odom. All the novellas in this series are set in the 1950s, which just seems to fit perfect for stories with a hardboiled noir edge. Odom, Bishop, and others are using the "Jack Tunney" house name to write under, in true pulp-writer style.

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COMING SOON!

LAS VEGAS SOUL!

LAS VEGAS SOUL!

THIS IS GREAT NEWS . . . ONE OF MY FAVORITE BOXING NOVELS, EVERY TIME I TALK TO LISTON (2004) NOW HAS A JUST RELEASED SEQUEL, LAS VEGAS SOUL . . . LAS VEGAS SOUL PICKS UP A HEARTBEAT AFTER EVERY TIME I TALK TO LISTON, FEATURING THE SAME CAST OF STRONG CHARACTERS (SCRAP IRON FLETCHER, TNT, UNC, T-BONE TAYLOR) AND A FISTFUL OF NEW ONES - OKTAY KEMAL, A WHIRLING DERVISH TURKISH FIGHTER WHO MIGHT BE THE BEST FIGHTER SCRAP HAS EVER SEEN, LYLE MACK, A POWERFUL YOUNG HEAVYWEIGHT WITH LOADS OF POTENTIAL WHO SHOWS UP IN TNT’S TRAINING CAMP UNANNOUNCED, AND A MYSTERIOUS BLUES MUSICIAN SCRAP BEFRIENDS WHO EERILY REMINDS HIM OF THE LATE, GREAT SONNY LISTON . . .

LAS VEGAS SOUL

BRIAN DEVIDO

KINDLE EDITION $3.99

After years of struggling inside the ring, former heavyweight sparring partner Amos "Scrap Iron" Fletcher is finally seeing success outside of it. When Scrap leads Rodney "TNT" Timmons to the heavyweight championship of the world, it appears that all of Scrap's dreams are coming true: he's suddenly one of the world's hottest fight trainers, he's used his management savvy to line up a multi-million dollar title-fight rematch with former champ "T-Bone" Taylor, and his relationship with his law-student girlfriend appears to be headed in the right direction.

But with his newfound success, the only thing Scrap finds he can count on is change. Is TNT losing his edge as he trains for the rematch? Are the talented

new fighters Scrap has taken under his wing as loyal as TNT? And who is the mysterious blues musician that Scrap keeps running into who eerily resembles the late heavyweight champ Sonny Liston, a fighter Scrap looks to as his patron saint?

Las Vegas Soul, the new novel from acclaimed writer Brian DeVido, explores what happens to a man once his initial dreams have been realized, and the lengths he must go to in order to make his new ones a reality.

NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

NOW ALSO AVAILABLE IN PAPERBACK!

WHILE THE E-BOOK VERSIONS OF THE FIGHT CARD SERIES ARE FEATURED UNDER THE UNIFYING PSEUDONYM OF ‘JACK TUNNEY,’ THE PAPERBACK EDITIONS FEATURE THE NAME OF THE INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS … FIGHT CARD: A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD (BY ERIC BEETNER), WHICH DEBUTED AS AN E-BOOK THIS PAST MONDAY, IS NOW ALSO AVAILABLE AS A PAPERBACK …

★ NEW FIGHT CARD NOVEL JUST RELEASED!

★ NEW FIGHT CARD NOVEL JUST RELEASED!

 ★ FIGHT CARD: A MOUTH FULL OF BLOOD ★ THE LATEST FROM JACK TUNNEY ★ THE SEQUEL TO FIGHT CARD: SPLIT DECISION ★ “BLOODY GREAT!” ★ HARD-PUNCHING PULP FICTION ★ GET ON THE FIGHT CARD NOW! ★★★