Ghost Dance

Now Available From NTD
Ghost Dance,
 by Rod Marsden
Paperback: $13.95
eBook: $4.99
website: www.bloodredshadow.com
 
If Helen Kiln wanted a quiet life she should never have become a psychic for the PSI division of the Secret Compass. Of late there were ghosts to sort out, vampires running amok, a Gypsy warning to heed and a young man becoming a monster to befriend. With any luck she’d get in her morning cup of coffee and donuts.  Frank Burkhard, a young man, and Petra Card, a female vampire, were expected in Worms (Voems), Germany where they were going to try to save the world. There was also a warlock out to save humanity by killing off many people. In all of this Helen could envisage, through her powers, a dead man about to make a stand. Helen knew this for a certainty. It just wasn’t clear to her who it was going to be. 

Betrothal, Betrayal, And Blood

Betrothal, Betrayal, And Blood

By JoAnna Senger

Now available from Amazon and www.bloodredshadow.com

$15.50

How does a small, self-contained city react to a brutal murder in its only tourist attraction? Hush it up? Blame an unknown outsider? Find a scapegoat? Then what? Ask Karl Kelly and Vito Kostowki, San Tobino detectives baffled by the outrageous murders of various visitors to Milady’s Manor: nothing taken, nothing left behind, unrelated victims, no clues. Milady’s Manor puts San Tobino on the map due to its 200 rooms each lavishly decorated according to a unique theme. But what if tourists stop coming? However, not all the citizens concern themselves with the local tourist industry. Some of them are too buy shopping. Or having affairs. Or covering up murder.

Double Danger Tales #64 On Kindle

Compere had not been able to get Peggy away from the door leading to the stairwell, and he knew that danger lay in that direction. He increased his deadly fire, but had become a non-moving target himself. A bullet from one of the gangster’s guns clipped the little gas container on his belt, and suddenly two skull-faced apparitions appeared, one on each wrist of his hands. With a slight movement of his wrists, the gas-filled balloons were disconnected and flew from his outstretched arms with a loud hiss, each flying in opposite directions.

The appearance of the banshees was so sudden, gangsters turned their fire on the two escaping gas balloons, and Compere accounted for another four hoodlums as their guns had been diverted from him.

Unfortunately, his luck was running out. He heard a light sound from behind, a short sigh from Peggy, and then he felt the cold hard steel of the barrel of a revolver digging into his spine. A vicious voice grunted from behind, "Drop your cannons, friend, or this girl gets a bullet in the head!"

Now available on Kindle for $.99. For the eBook edition we've gone with a different cover than the print copy, which is still available from Fading Shadows at $10.00 postpaid in the U.S..

Bob Larkin Sketchbook

STARWARP CONCEPTS

P.O. BOX 4667 • SUNNYSIDE, NY 11104

www.starwarpconcepts.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 “THE BOB LARKIN SKETCHBOOK” DEBUTS

StarWarp Concepts Presents Legendary Artist’s First Pencil-Art Collection

He’s created some of comics’ most iconic images—a snarling Hulk raising a green-hued fist in anger, Conan the Barbarian strangling an enemy, even the disco-inspired first-issue cover for The Dazzler—and inspired some of the industry’s most popular artists.

From Doc Savage and Spider-Man to “Stone Cold” Steve Austin and The Rock, from the Planet of the Apes to Babylon 5 and Star Wars, and from James Cameron’s low-budget epic Piranha II to William Shatner’s directorial turn on Star Trek V, there’s little that artist Bob Larkin hasn’t painted. But few of his fans have ever seen the incredible pencil drawings that begin these eye-catching pieces—until now.

Available exclusively from independent publishing house StarWarp Concepts, THE BOB LARKIN SKETCHBOOK is the acclaimed artist’s first collection of pencil art, featuring superheroes, wrestling stars, and pulp adventurers—including a pair of brand-new Doc Savage sketches exclusive to this volume! For more information, please visit www.StarwarpConcepts.com.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR BOB LARKIN:

“Nothing was more inspiring to me as a young wannabe comics artist than to become like Bob Larkin and try my best to breathe life into dreams like he did.”

—Alex Ross,

in The Savage Art of Bob Larkin (SQP Inc.)

“Larkin’s magazine and paperback covers are both legendary and iconic. There are few pop culture touchstones which this artist hasn’t depicted with his unique and powerful style of illustration.”

—Bud’s Art Books

“Long before Alex Ross, Bob Larkin became the first major painter to be known for superhero covers, thanks to his work on Marvel’s magazine covers.”

—ComicMix.com

“Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, if you saw Bob Larkin’s name on the cover to a magazine or comic, you simply had to have it…. This is a guy that’s never truly received the credit for being one of the best all-time cover artists.”

—Shotgun Reviews

“To try and deny the awesomeness of Bob Larkin’s art is to deny your very existence. It is impossible.”

—Marvel.com

About the Artist:

BOB LARKIN has provided cover artwork for every major U.S. book-publishing house, from Ace Books and Simon & Schuster to Random House and Penguin; movie posters for Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, and New Line Cinema; and comic book covers for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, and Warren Publishing. A highly praised successor to renowned painter James Bama as cover artist for Bantam Books’ Doc Savage pulp series, Larkin’s talents have been acclaimed by colleagues and art fans around the world.

About the Book:

The Bob Larkin Sketchbook

by Bob Larkin                                             

Published by StarWarp Concepts

24 pages, digest (5.5” x 8.5”)

Price: $12.00 U.S.

THE BOB LARKIN SKETCHBOOK™ and © 2011 Bob Larkin.

All rights reserved.

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Fight Card: Felony Fists

Fight Card: Felony Fists

By Jack Tunney (Paul Bishop)

Kindle Edition $2.00

Fight Car Productions

Rating 5 Stars

“Let’s make this look good,” I said. We parted and King tagged me with a right uppercut as I moved away. I hadn’t meant that good.

Patrick “Felony” Flynn was known as the giant killer. Coming out of the Navy, where he had fought anyone put up against him, he had never went down. Now a cop in L.A., his boss wants to stop mobster Mickey Cohen’s grab for control of the fight mecca. Taking Flynn’s badge, he offers him another one – Detective! But the giant killer had to take down Cohen’s contender, King. The mobster has other ideas, however, and before the fight, the daughter of Flynn’s friend is kidnapped and held hostage. If Flynn doesn’t throw the fight, she will die.

It has been a long time since we had a good boxing magazine or series, and the genre is sorely missed. Fight Card Productions has began a new series of boxing stories by various authors under the Jack (Dempsey) (Gene) Tunney pseudonym. For the fight fan, Paul Bishop’s “Felony Fist” is the Main Event!

Master of Madness

Coming soon from Altus Press, Steve Payne's original Secret Agent X novel, first published in serial format in DOUBLE DANGER TALES #1, 2 & 3 (February, March, and April 1997). "Master of Madness" was the first Secret Agent X novel in fifty years, quickly followed by two more exciting novels by Steve of the Man of A Thousand Faces. Altus Press previously published one of his other "X" novels, and plans are for the third one to follow later.

Steve is a fan of both G.T. Fleming-Roberts, and of Secret Agent X, and is an expert on the pulp character. He is hard at work on new adventures of "X", and I expect we will see some high adventures of this exciting character return soon.

Bob Larkin

BOB LARKIN: THE ILLUSTRATED MAN

Founders: Courtney Rogers • Scotty Phillips

http://boblarkin.blogspot.com

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

“BOB LARKIN: THE ILLUSTRATED MAN”

WEB SITE LAUNCHES

Online Gallery of Acclaimed Artist’s Work Debuts

BOB LARKIN has provided cover artwork for every major U.S. book-publishing house, from Ace Books and Simon & Schuster to Random House and Penguin; movie posters for Columbia Pictures, Universal Pictures, and New Line Cinema; and comic book covers for Marvel Comics, DC Comics, Warren Publishing, and now Boom! Studios. Renowned for his work as successor to legendary painter James Bama’s cover artistry for Bantam Books’ Doc Savage pulp series, Larkin’s talents have been acclaimed by colleagues and art fans around the world.

Now, those fans can find his work on display at the Web site “Bob Larkin: The Illustrated Man.” Launched on January 6, 2012 by longtime fans Scotty Phillips and Courtney Rogers, the site displays the book, comic, and magazine covers, movie posters, and toy packaging art that has inspired a generation of artists.

“Why a Bob Larkin blog?” asked Rogers. “Three reasons: First, because Bob’s prodigious amount of artistic output deserves to be collected all in one place, to enable fans and art lovers to go to one source and see an incredible amount of varied material. Second, Bob's talent is simply amazing; his work is deserving of being shared and marveled at. And third—and probably most important—because Bob is just the greatest person around and he deserves the attention and accolades.”

For more information, please visit http://boblarkin.blogspot.com.

CRITICAL ACCLAIM FOR BOB LARKIN:

“Larkin’s magazine and paperback covers are both legendary and iconic. There are few pop culture touchstones which this artist hasn’t depicted with his unique and powerful style of illustration.”

—Bud’s Art Books

“Long before Alex Ross, Bob Larkin became the first major painter to be known for superhero covers, thanks to his work on Marvel’s magazine covers.”

—ComicMix.com

“Throughout the ’70s and ’80s, if you saw Bob Larkin’s name on the cover to a magazine or comic, you simply had to have it…. This is a guy that’s never truly received the credit for being one of the best all-time cover artists.”

—Shotgun Reviews