Good morning all! Well, no nibbles yet? Here's a sample:

Romac/Cugir (Romanian version of Soviet Dragunov-type sniper), 7.62x54R caliber, forged barrel, 5 and 10-rd mags, new 6x electronic lighted reticle scope (batteries included), 120 rds. of 7.62x54R ammo (this is the rifle Taliban snipers have used against our brave and professional Warfighters in Iraq)

Springfield Armory SAR-8, .308 caliber (this is the Springfield version of the H&K 91), scope mount, four 20-rd mags, hundreds of rds. of British MOD 7.62mm (.308) ammo (this has the California-style stock, pistol grip is part of butt stock, made in Greece with H&K equipment, RARE)


Kahr PM45 semi-auto pistol, .45ACP, striker-fired (like a Glock), (rated the smallest controllable .45, recoil is "stout"), 2 mags, polygon-bore

STI 2011 Wide-Body, .45ACP single-action, 6-in-long slide, Steel Plate Challenge, composite frame, slab-sided slide, many 10 and 13-rd mags, holster (if I can find it), fiber-optic front sight, sweet (light) trigger

Shipped only to an FFL holder in accordance with all federal and ATFE regulations.

e-mail:
mssrschmidt@frontiernet.net

NYj

Will 'A Necessary End' be available as a stand alone novel at some point soon? As much as I'd like to buy the Maelstrom IV set I just can't afford it right now. Thanks for any info.

Anyone else watch the premiere? Some interesting characters, glad to see so many cast members return. Not sure what to think just yet. Seems to have lost the more subtle approach to horror that the first season had.

I am looking for the RJ novel in which Gia loses her baby.
Somehow I got some books out of order. TIA

Freyne (I think) was telling Jack "north" Tulsa. He says,
"You ever been to Tulsa? I have. It's too small to have a "north Tulsa."

Well, actually, I grew up in north Tulsa. In fact, in the early 1900's, part of north Tulsa was called Greenwood. This area was called the most prosperous area for african-americans in the country.

And it was, until about 1921. Probably the worse race riot in the history of the country occurred there. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say it was a great calamity.

Jayboman

The Navy Yard shooter was black, and so was the dental hygenist who tried to crash the White House. Black people don't DO that kind of stuff! Except for that guy in Atlanta (and I'm not 100% certain he killed ALL those kids), serial killers are all white, middle-aged, loners (luckily I dodged that one). Is there something in the environment or American society that is now causing black people to act like crazy, white people?


Inquring minds want to know!

NYj

Hi, Folks!

Glad to be back. I've had a little wake-up the last couple weeks, I've begun taking hemodialysis three times a week, for 3 hours each treatment. Luckily, I've been able to use my flexible work schedule so I can continue working full time (I don't want to go on disability; there are too many people abusing that now). However, this does not leave me much time to go shooting. Also, Theo (my wife), ever the optimist, is concerned that she will be stuck with my "vast" firearms collection and will get hosed after I "shuffle off," because she doesn't know what they are worth. She doesn't even know what they ARE!

At any rate, I've decided to cull my collection way back now. Rather than deciding what I want to sell, I'm deciding what I have to keep and selling the rest. I'm working with my friend and FFL holder, Mike Meador of Extreme Firepower (he BUILDS sniper rifles in .338 Lapua and MG-42 machineguns). He is going to offer them for sale on consignment, but I also wanted to offer them to you folks, first pick. I guarantee a good deal on gently used, well-maintained semi-automatic rifles and pistols. Many with extra magazines, ammo, scope mounts, etc. thrown in for boot. Tell me what you are interested in (I may make a list with descriptions in the future) and I will tell what I have in that category. You save on Mike's/Gunbroker's commission. Shipped to your FFL holder in accordance with all federal/ATFE regulations; you pay only for FEDEX/USPS standard charges. I guarantee I will beat any deal you can find online with Gunbroker by at least 10%.

E-mail me at: mssrschmidt@frontiernet.net, because my mail box here will fill up.

Best Regards,

NYj

So I don't facebook but I see FPW's along with his tweets here, and there have been many instances where I would have chimed in on a topic but don't due to my being a non facebooker or tweeter. I don't do them because I know myself well enough to know that they would consume me if I were to join. Anyway I'm starting this thread so that I can comment on the things from there like the panel for lost classics that FPW is on. Now if I've read them they can't be too lost and I doubt that any of them are true classics but here's a few fantasy writers that I rarely see mentioned whose work I've enjoyed.

Dennis McKiernan's The Iron Tower Trilogy which introduces us to his fantasy realm of Mithgar.

Paul Edwin Zimmer's Dark Border books I think pre-date the real dark epic fantasies that are so popular today(I'm not saying he invented them but he was my first exposure to that kind of writing).

Michael de Larrabeiti's The Borribles and The Borribles Go For Broke were the first books to feature teenaged anti-heroes that I read.

Robert Weinberg is well-known as an editor but I don't see his writing mentioned and he was one of the first authors that I'm aware of to tackle urban fantasy with books like The Devil's Auction, The Armagedon Box and The Logical Magician.

Kenneth C. Flint writes about Celtic myths in his Sidhe books but he wrote two of my all time dark fantasies in Cromm and Otherworld.

And lastly Garfield Reeves-Stevens Bloodshift is the most kickass vampire book that no one knows about.

What's wrong here?
http://www.amazon.com/o/ASIN/0765330156

$19 for the ebook, $15 for the hardcover?

9/1 - The F Files went out this a.m. and damn, a couple of "smart quotes" sneaked in and came out as "?" - hate that

9/1 - Holy crap! Hard to believe the guy walked away! http://tinyurl.com/m3y6n6b

9/1 - it's Labor Day weekend. And I'm laboring. Which is as it should be, I guess.

9/2 - Sayonara, tokusatsu? :-( http://tinyurl.com/pajh4uf

9/1 - anyone else watching the French crime series, "Engrenages" (Spiral)? Is it just me or is Audrey Fleurot hot?

9/1 - Holy crap! Hard to believe the guy walked away! http://tinyurl.com/m3y6n6b

9/2 - I keep telling people, punctuation is important: http://tinyurl.com/lr3x8m7

9/3 - RiP Fred Pohl. One of the fathers of modern SF. My first signing (at a B. Dalton in Toms River) was with Fred and Barry Malzberg and Isaac Asimov.

9/4 - heard from Otto Penzler my novelette "The Compendium of Srem" is scheduled for December publication in Mysterious Press's Bibliomystery line.

9/4 - just learned that the limited first edition of A NECESSARY END by Sarah Pinborough and yrs trly will be part of the Maelstrom IV package this Halloween. http://tinyurl.com/nfrgwrc

9/4 - Had to happen: Miley Cyrus and Capt. Kirk (some excellent editing here) http://www.theburningplatform.com/?p=60051

9/5 - I can see myself falling for this. http://tinyurl.com/n4bzjxd

9/8 - a definite End Times cloud. http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap130908.html

9/8 - Having a fantasy football team changes everything. I'm rooting for teams I never cared about.

9/9 - Flipping a picture of hanging bats = coolness: http://pic.twitter.com/QlpqMdl0fd

9/10 - Disappointed in the recent "Luther" run. Lazy writing and idiot plotting. Not even Alice Morgan could save it.

9/11 - Something to think about... http://fb.me/Jpf6fCTC

9/14 - Is it wrong to take such inordinate pleasure writing in the voice of a character who totally destroys the English language?

9/16 - Hmmm...comparing my dialogue to Elmore Leonard's. I think I like this DARK CITY review... http://tinyurl.com/ksxayja

9/17 - I'm told John Wayne saw Ramino with Groucho on this TV segment and hired him for "Rio Bravo." Maybe true, maybe not, but it's a funny segment. http://tinyurl.com/p4p7ybf

9/18 - I like the Eagles, but if "Desperado" was on eternal replay, I can understand: http://tinyurl.com/l6scuad

9/19 - Bouchercon 2013, here I come. Three hours on the road should do it.

9/22 - Lots of folks asking for a sequel to MIDNIGHT MASS over the years. The book keeps selling and people keep asking. So I turned off the radio on the 3-hour drive home from Bouchercon and came up with some unique major elements and conflicts that will keep it from being a simple rehash of MM. It's not ready to write yet, but when it is, I hope there's room on my plate to write it. Because it's looking like fun.

9/25 - Heather Graham and I did the final tweaks on "Infernal Night," our story for the FACE OFF anthology.

9/26 - Well, I was going to tell people about this new Kickstarter thing to fund a giant Creepy/Eerie type horror anthology and tell you that you had a chance to be killed in my story, but that reward disappeared immediately. Sorry. Anyway, it's going to be a great collection. Take a look http://tinyurl.com/pemmwfm ;

9/27 - Oh, yay. The page proofs for the NIGHTWORLD mass market pb arrove. Do you know how many times I've read this sucker in its varying iterations over the past twenty+ years? Neither do I.

9/28 - "Broadchurch" - watched the finale last night - wrenching. An excellent miniseries, perfect for binge watching.

9/29 - saw opening night (previews) of "A Time to Kill" on B'way. The upside: good cast and super stagecraft. Downside: no standout performance (Ashley Williams did the most with her supporting role) and needs some scenes cut. Must-see theater? No. But a solid courtroom drama.