A quick note and announcement. Switchblade Issue #1is now availble!
This short story collection, that was coordinated and edited by Scotch Rutherford, has some heavy hitters. There is only one of the contributors that's questionable - me. The authors are:
Tom Leins
Liam Sweeny
Patrick Bates
Preston Lang
Steve Liskow
Larry Kelter
Paul D. Brazill
Travis Richardson
William Dylan Powell
Jim Wilsky
Fred Zackel
Scotch Rutherford
Susan Cornford
As always, there is a need to hit the ground running with a book launch. We need buyers, readers and equally as important, REVIEWERS. Please check this one out and pass the word!
You can find it right here.
-JW
Only 6 days left to make a pledge of support for this military fiction anthology. Prizes for different levels of donations are being offered and some great stories are being compiled for this book project entitled The Odds Are Against Us. Check out my friend Frank Scalise's video right here, where he discusses and explains this soon to be published anthology and all the efforts being made to ensure this book is both well written and well read.
The full story and homepage of this current project which also further details plans for upcoming publications is linked here. This short story collection, followed by these other future projects anthologies are being planned, coordinated and ultimately made available to the public by Oren Litwin, Publisher/Editor. Please check it out.
-JW
I already mentioned this below but I'm posting this again because Military Fiction deserves more exposure. This kickstarter has really taken off so please take a look and see if you can make a small pledge to see this anthology realize its full potential.
Go here: Odds Are Againt Us and be sure to scroll down and around to see what this is all about - and hey, while you're there check out my writing buddy Frank Scalise in a video endorsement he graciously made for this anthology.
-JW
Many thanks to Scotch Rutherford, the head honcho over at the new Switchblade Magazine, for accepting my story to be included in the first issue of Switchblade. As you can see from the other authors making up issue #1, I was lucky just to hobo hop onboard this train. Message below is from Scotch's website and here's the link.
SWITCHBLADE First Issue Lineup:
Arriving in early March of 2017, and featuring a motley crew of noir fiction usual suspects, along with some new blood; here are the lucky thirteen. The eight short fiction authors, and five flash fiction authors who will appear in the very first cut of SWITCHBLADE:
Tom Leins
Liam Sweeny
Patrick Bates
Preston Lang
Steve Liskow
Larry Kelter
Paul D. Brazill
Travis Richardson
William Dylan Powell
Jim Wilsky
Fred Zackel
Scotch Rutherford
Susan Cornford
Recently I submitted a story for a new Military Fiction Anthology that is being compiled, coordinated and edited by a gentleman named Oren Litwin which you can read all about here. In connection and in support of this effort he has also began a Kickstarter Program for the anthology which is titled Against All Odds. The kickstarter information can be found here.
I was lucky enough to have a story selected for this anthology and you're going to see some familiar names and some very talented writers involved, myself not included in that description. How about a guy named Frank Scalise, my writing partner for the Ania 3 book series we co-wrote together? How about a guy named John Floyd, a true gentleman besides being an award winning and gifted writer?
There are more authors coming, there is some tremendous early support being shown by interested folks and there have been friends and associates of mine who have posted on this and supported it like Paul Brazill and James Reasoner. I thank them sincerely for that. If you can support this by pledging a small amount it will be highly appreciated - and please use these links to forward on the news and help make this a success.
-JW
After coming back from a long, long hiatus and posting a new message on Hardboiled Partners in Crime, I've decided to really start something new and fresh. HBP will be left up for reference and is listed here under Links - but I'm going to begin my return from the dead with this new blog. Most likely, I've confused the hell out of anybody reading this and I apologize for that but I thought this would be the best way to proceed. Tripping The Trigger is now home base. So here we go...
-JW
