Well, for the first time in a long while, I have some good news to report. I have a story published in a new anthology from Airship 27. The anthology is Dan Fowler volume 3. My story is titled Dead Man Shooting, a title I’m quite proud of.
Note: Titles are an interesting subject. Some are easy, some hard to come by, some are perfect and practically write themselves. Hmmmm . . . that might make a good topic to expand on some day. I’ll think about that.
Appearing in G-Men, later G-Men Detective which ran from 1935 to 1953; Dan Fowler was hard charging FBI agent. With 112 issues over an eighteen year span G-Men was one of the longest running hero pulps.
Dan Fowler battled gangsters in the 1930s, Nazi agents and saboteurs during WWII and Organized Crime in the post war years. A few years ago Airship 27 announced a third anthology of Dan’s adventures. Between writing assignments at that time. I threw my hat in the ring. I didn’t know much about Dan Fowler but I figured, what the heck, a pulp hero is a pulp hero. Well . . . sort of. I read some of his original adventures for background and came up with a plot. The writing wasn’t as easy as I had first thought though, and I actually struggled a bit writing Dan Fowler. I won’t go into specifics here. If you’re interested you should take a look at my author’s notes after my story in the book. At any rate I ended up writing what I consider a pretty good G-Man yarn with lots of car chases and shoot outs. A bit different than what I usually write but fun nonetheless. Although, I was mildly surprised at the body count and somewhat dark tone of the story. Still, that is exactly how a lot of the gangster pulps of that time were.
Anyway, I turned my story in an did what I always do; I waited. Waiting for other authors to commit and then write their stories then waiting for artwork is an ongoing process. Sometimes it goes faster than others times. Waiting for Dan Fowler turned into a marathon. I wrote Dead Man walking over four years ago. Yes, It has languished in publishing purgatory for a long time. I have discussed this phenomenon before. Sometimes the Publishing Gods smile on a project . . . sometimes they frown.
At any rate the wait has been worth it. Dan Fowler v. 3 is out and available direct from Airship 27 and Amazon.com. I will have copies available on E-bay as soon as my allotment of books arrive. My seller name is Libertygamer.
So, if you like G-men, gangsters, Tommy guns and chases give Dan Fowler a try. It is a fast paced, exciting read.
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