tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21585520970038961852024-03-13T20:38:10.559-07:00Piccadilly PublishingPublishing Classic Fiction from Yesterday and Today - digitally!Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.comBlogger74125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-33450693395944257842022-10-21T03:22:00.001-07:002022-10-21T03:26:06.036-07:00January 2023 Titles AnnouncedADAM STEELE 28: THE WRONG MAN (George G. Gilman) <div> McALLISTER 14: BRAND McALLISTER (Matt Chisholm) <div> HAWK 3: DEATH'S BOUNTY (William S. Brady) </div><div> THE EAGLES 1: THE HILL OF THE DEAD (Andrew Quiller) <div> SUNDANCE 28: BLOOD KNIFE (Peter McCurtin) </div><div> SOLDIER OF FORTUNE 5: GREEN HELL (Peter McCurtin) <div> IRON EYES 22: A NOOSE FOR IRON EYES (Rory Black) <div> GRINGOS 4: BORDER AFFAIR (J.D. Sandon) </div><div> ROYAL AUSTRALIAN NAVAL 5: ALARM - E-BOATS! (J.E. Macdonell) <div> GATLING 4: SOUTH OF THE BORDER WAR (Jack Slade)</div></div></div></div></div></div>Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-21128001236294496042022-10-03T03:24:00.001-07:002022-10-03T03:24:24.518-07:00RED RUNS THE RIVER (Shane & Jonah #20)<h1 style="text-align: left;"> SHANE AND JONAH by COLE SHELTON</h1><div><br /></div><div>The 20th adventure featuring Shane Preston and Jonah Jones, RED RUNS THE RIVER is out on December 01, 2022. And the good news is that this and the rest the series now joins Amazon Kindle Unlimited! </div><div><br /></div><div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh30bKVc69L3c2F6P5FAeZZ4SIQt5AIwZ1O6vnRCPS0ycBWIfApkFlEw1EjjTwUXB5ltCwSOg5fIL-VyIx6upV4SzsjMU8WRplhQvkVf3GT-NUNntRiNDsjiiy-8vnxrUXqE3qvM99DvUTVp-iScZNTVVLVDsiQooH9aKOpdI6DzFXzfq8LFluM9cgf" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="65" data-original-width="151" height="70" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEh30bKVc69L3c2F6P5FAeZZ4SIQt5AIwZ1O6vnRCPS0ycBWIfApkFlEw1EjjTwUXB5ltCwSOg5fIL-VyIx6upV4SzsjMU8WRplhQvkVf3GT-NUNntRiNDsjiiy-8vnxrUXqE3qvM99DvUTVp-iScZNTVVLVDsiQooH9aKOpdI6DzFXzfq8LFluM9cgf=w162-h70" width="162" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK7d1fkCuyXUWPw-Jy_l1tRNEc76mSessSNgPv-H__oexZXhjbNfVRDmJrYgAue1vm06uSuSP3xRovNDjBS1BoVzk75-D87lVuVOeZI7yNZq2_ZtvC-Ci9VRabKp0rLruRjpliZw4Seknr_JqGkTZrrm5WXRWTdB18BMLDOqwEZhTbZamfgFraF3HV" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="346" data-original-width="245" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjK7d1fkCuyXUWPw-Jy_l1tRNEc76mSessSNgPv-H__oexZXhjbNfVRDmJrYgAue1vm06uSuSP3xRovNDjBS1BoVzk75-D87lVuVOeZI7yNZq2_ZtvC-Ci9VRabKp0rLruRjpliZw4Seknr_JqGkTZrrm5WXRWTdB18BMLDOqwEZhTbZamfgFraF3HV" width="170" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div><br /><div>It was the most perilous mission Shane Preston and Jonah Jones had ever untaken. They had to rendezvous with a gang of gunrunners, and pretending to be new recruits, discover the location of their camp … and the store of repeating rifles they were planning to sell to the Apaches! </div><div><br /></div><div>
But gang leader Sam Nachez had his doubts about them right from the start, and when it looked like they were about to be exposed as agents for the Texas Rangers, they were forced to take matters into their own hands, and slap leather. </div><div><br /></div><div>
From there, however, the situation became even more dangerous, and soon an entire town was under siege by hundreds of renegade Indians, all of them determined to get their hands on the guns, and make sure the Lone Star State was washed red with blood!
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Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-84261210704921997332018-06-05T08:35:00.003-07:002018-06-05T08:35:55.424-07:00New JASON BRAND released today!For fans of the JASON BRAND series written by Neil Hunter (aka Mike Linaker) ... your wait is over for a new adventure. Number 12 in the series <em><strong>VENGEANCE GUN</strong></em> has been released today.<br />
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When the books were first published, for some unfathomable reason Bantam Books split the books. They published A PROMISE OF GLORY and BLIND DUTY under Frederick Nolan but the third in the series FIELD OF HONOR was under the name of Danielle Rockfern. Go figure!<br />
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Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-82840474719492300782017-11-22T04:57:00.000-08:002017-11-22T04:57:06.048-08:00New Wilderness Giant Edition Out NowReleased today is the next Giant Wilderness Edition: <strong>The Trail West</strong> (number 5 in our series) written by David Robbins 9- as David Thompson.<br />
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Nate King was a master trapper, a loyal friend and an almost legendary grizzly killer. But when a rich Easterner hired the bravest of all the frontiersmen to guide him to the virgin lands west of the Rockies, Nate found his life threatened by hostile Indians, back-shooters and renegade settlers out to rob him and his party. If he failed to meet every challenge and defeat every enemy.<br />
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We're keeping that a dark secret until the big reveal.Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-79242764103749127332017-07-27T07:06:00.005-07:002017-07-27T07:06:53.070-07:00CALL TO ARMS pre-release revealWe are exciting here at Piccadilly Towers that we are able to share with you the news of our new acquisition.<br />
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<strong>CALL TO ARMS</strong> - A sweeping saga which traces the turbulent history of American through the lives of men and women whose deeds and dreams would forever mark the world <strong>...</strong>written by Frederick Nolan.<br />
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When the books were first published, for some unfathomable reason Bantam Books split the books. They published A PROMISE OF GLORY and BLIND DUTY under Frederick Nolan but the third in the series FIELD OF HONOR was under the name of Danielle Rockfern. Go figure!<br />
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So at Piccadilly we are putting them out as intended by the author. A Promise of Glory will be released on March 08, 2018, and BLIND DUTY and FIELD OF HONOR will follow on April 8 and May 8.<br />
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And the covers feature the striking artwork by Don Stivers.<br />
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Hope you welcome the trilogy with opened arms (ouch - bad pun!).<br />
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "palatino" , "serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "palatino" , "serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: black;">Doc Holliday commits his first murder, killing a man for shooting up his New Mexico saloon.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "palatino" , "serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="color: white; font-family: "palatino" , "serif"; font-size: 12.5pt; line-height: 150%;"><span style="background-color: black;">Despite his formidable reputation as a deadly gunslinger, Doc Holliday only engaged in eight shootouts during his life, and it has only been verified that he killed two men. Still, the smartly dressed ex-dentist from Atlanta had a remarkably fearless attitude toward death and danger, perhaps because he was slowly dying from tuberculosis.<o:p></o:p></span></span></span></div>
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''¿Quien es? ¿Quien es?'' <br />
136 years ago on this day, those were (allegedly) the last words spoken by William H. Bonney aka Billy the Kid.<br />
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<span class="description">* Pat Garrett was elected Sheriff of Lincoln County in 1880 on a reform ticket with the expectation that he would reinstate justice in the area. One of his first acts was to capture Billy the Kid, sending him to trial for the murder of the Lincoln sheriff and his deputy. Garrett was away from Lincoln on county business when the Kid made his escape. Rather than chase after the fugitive, Garrett kept to his ranch mending fences and attending to his cattle. In July, the Sheriff received word that the Kid was hiding out at the abandoned Fort Sumner about 140 miles west of Lincoln. Rounding up two of his deputies, John Poe and Thomas McKinney, Garrett set off in pursuit of the Kid. </span><br />
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On the night of July 14, the Sheriff and his two deputies approached the dusty old Fort now converted to living quarters. The residents were sympathetic to the Kid and the lawmen could extract little information. Garrett decided to seek out an old friend, Peter Maxwell, who might tell him the Kid's whereabouts. As chance would have it, the Kid stumbled right into the Sheriff's hands. Garrett published his account of the incident a year after it happened: <br />
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</span><span class="narrative">"I then concluded to go and have a talk with Peter Maxwell, Esq., in whom I felt sure I could rely. We had ridden to within a short distance of Maxwell's grounds when we found a man in camp and stopped. To Poe's great surprise, he recognized in the camper an old friend and former partner, in Texas, named Jacobs. We unsaddled here, got some coffee, and, on foot, entered an orchard which runs from this point down to a row of old buildings, some of them occupied by Mexicans, not more than sixty yards from Maxwell's house. We approached these houses cautiously, and when within earshot, heard the sound of voices conversing in Spanish. We concealed ourselves quickly and listened; but the distance was too great to hear words, or even distinguish voices. Soon a man arose from the ground, in full view, but too far away to recognize. He wore a broad-brimmed hat, a dark vest and pants, and was in his shirtsleeves. With a few words, which fell like a murmur on our ears, he went to the fence, jumped it, and walked down towards Maxwell's house. </span>Little as we then suspected it, this man was the Kid. We learned, subsequently, that, when he left his companions that night, he went to the house of a Mexican friend, pulled off his hat and boots, threw himself on a bed, and commenced reading a newspaper. He soon, however, hailed his friend, who was sleeping in the room, told him to get up and make some coffee, adding: 'Give me a butcher knife and I will go over to Pete's and get some beef; I'm hungry.' The Mexican arose, handed him the knife, and the Kid, hatless and in his stocking-feet, started to Maxwell's, which was but a few steps distant. <br />
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When the Kid, by me unrecognized, left the orchard, I motioned to my companions, and we cautiously retreated a short distance, and, to avoid the persons whom we had heard at the houses, took another route, approaching Maxwell's house from the opposite direction. When we reached the porch in front of the building, I left Poe and McKinney at the end of the porch, about twenty feet from the door of Pete's room, and went in. It was near midnight and Pete was in bed. I walked to the head of the bed and sat down on it, beside him, near the pillow. I asked him as to the whereabouts of the Kid. He said that the Kid had certainly been about, but he did not know whether he had left or not. At that moment a man sprang quickly into the door, looking back, and called twice in Spanish, 'Who comes there?' No one replied and he came on in. He was bareheaded. From his step I could perceive he was either barefooted or in his stocking-feet, and held a revolver in his right hand and a butcher knife in his left. <br />
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He came directly towards me. Before he reached the bed, I whispered: 'Who is it, Pete?' but received no reply for a moment. It struck me that it might be Pete's brother-in-law, Manuel Abreu, who had seen Poe and McKinney, and wanted to know their business. The intruder came close to me, leaned both hands on the bed, his right hand almost touching my knee, and asked, in a low tone: -'Who are they Pete?' -at the same instant Maxwell whispered to me. 'That's him!' Simultaneously the Kid must have seen, or felt, the presence of a third person at the head of the bed. He raised quickly his pistol, a self-cocker, within a foot of my breast. Retreating rapidly across the room he cried: 'Quien es? Quien es?' 'Who's that? Who's that?') All this occurred in a moment. Quickly as possible I drew my revolver and fired, threw my body aside, and fired again. The second shot was useless; the Kid fell dead. He never spoke. A struggle or two, a little strangling sound as he gasped for breath, and the Kid was with his many victims." <br />
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<a href="https://www.blogger.com/" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a>Garrett, Pat, The Authentic Life of Billy the Kid (1882, republished 1954); Utley, Robert, Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life (1989). <br />
*"The Death Of Billy The Kid, 1881," EyeWitness to History, www.eyewitnesstohistory.com (2001). <br />
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Billy the Kid has featured in several books that we've published including as a ghost!<br />
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The local gold rush is over. The threat of bandits is next to nada. And by the time Clint Adams rides through it, the pint-sized town of White Oaks is ready to settle back to normal, except for a bitter dispute between two storekeepers. But then folks begin spotting Billy the Kid around town. Problem is, the Kid's been dead several years! Normally, Adams can smell a hoax from a mile away. But, one he's taken on as a hired gun by a storekeeper, the Gunsmith spots Billy the Kid and would swear on a stack of bibles that the menace has come back to haunt him. Little does he know, though, that this phantom has a message for him - that, without the right friends in this town, the Gunsmith ain't got a ghost of a chance!<br />
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Jedediah Herne only wanted to play checkers but a fool-hardy youth wanted to draw him into a gunfight. The kid didn’t know he was facing Herne the Hunter. For Herne, it brought back memories of another time; another kid … New Mexico Territory 1878: The murder of local rancher John Tunstall lit the fuse for a bloody conflict that will be forever known as The Lincoln County War. Standing shoulder-to-shoulder is a legend and one in the making—Herne the Hunter and Billy the Kid. Luckily they are on the same side. Not so for the opposition. Herne hires out his Colt .45 to the Tunstall/McSween supporters against the Dolan/Murphy faction and thus The Regulators are born. The Kid’s gunning down of Lincoln County Sheriff Brady changed the playing field. Soon Herne and the Kid are pitched against lawmen and desperately fighting for their lives. A fast-paced adventure featuring notable figures of the Old West, including Sheriff Pat Garrett, John Chisum, Alexander McSween, Dick Brewer, Lawrence Murphy and the most famous of them all—Billy the Kid. </div>
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John Harvey's ten book series, <a href="http://www.piccadillypublishing.org/harvey.html" target="_blank">HART THE REGULATOR</a> has the main character of Wes Hart an ex-soldier, ex-Texas Ranger, ex-rider with Billy the Kid. He's tough, ruthless, and slick with a .45.</div>
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Pancho Villa was Born Doroteo Arango on June 5, 1878, in Río Grande, Mexico. Villa helped out on his parents’ farm. After his father’s death, he became head of the household and shot a man who was harassing one of his sisters. He fled, but was caught and imprisoned. Villa escaped again and later became a bandit.<br />
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While living as a fugitive, Villa joined Francisco Madero’s successful uprising against the Mexican dictator, Porfirio Díaz. Because of his skills as a fighter and a leader he was made a colonel. Another rebellion removed Madero from power in 1912 and Villa was almost executed for his efforts to defend the former government. He fled to the United States for a time, but he later returned to Mexico and formed his own military force known as Division del Norte (Division of the North). <br />
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He joined forces with other revolutionaries Venustiano Carranza and Emiliano Zapata to overthrow Victoriano Huerta. The different forces were not wholly successful at working together, and Villa and Carranza became rivals. For a number of years, he was involved in a series of clashes with other Mexican military groups and even fought with U.S. troops from 1916 to 1917. In 1920, Villa reached an agreement with Adolfo de la Huerta, the Mexican leader, which pardoned him for his actions in return for Villa putting an end to his independent military activities. Three years later, he was assassinated on June 20, 1923.<br />
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In the <strong>FARGO</strong> series written by John Benteen, number 18: <strong>KILLER'S MOON </strong>the storyline features Pancho Villa.<br />
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Fargo was running Springfield rifles across the border to Pancho Villa. That meant he had to dodge the U.S. Army, the Texas Rangers, and the Mexican regulars. But for the kind of money he was getting, it was worth it. Then he got mixed up with two American sisters—Rose and Lola. Rose was a nice girl, Lola was wild and mean—and you can guess which one Fargo liked better. Especially when she was holding half a million dollars in stolen money! <br />
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<span style="color: white;">The site of Fort Riley was chosen by surveyors in the fall of 1852 and was first called Camp Center, due to its proximity to the geographical center of the United States. The following spring, three companies of the 6th infantry began the construction of temporary quarters at the camp. </span><br />
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Colorado Territory- around 9 a.m. an Indian attack on a Kansas Pacific Railroad crew near the town of Kit Carson kills eleven and wounds nineteen 500 head of livestock are driven away.<br />
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Patrick E. Andrews' <strong>COLORADO CROSSFIRE</strong>, Number 15 in the Piccadilly Publishing Western series is an exciting story that tells of a vicious robbery, if there ever was one. A bunch of scummy gunsels had ambushed a Northwest and Canadian Railroad car, and left a pile of bodies in their wake. Detective Jim Bigelow figured it had to be Milo Paxton’s Gang; no other pack of pistoleros was so downright mean – or so dang slippery-footed. The Pinkerton man needed a pair of crack frontiersmen to capture the outlaws – or kill ’em – and bring back the loot. So he hired two hell-raisin’ whippersnappers names of Lefty McNally and the Kiowa Kid ...<br />
Lefty was a U.S. cavalryman’s son and the Kid was half-injun, yet they were closer than natural brothers. Together, they’d set out to find adventure. But hunting down twelve of the meanest men in the west not only put Lefty and the Kid on the deadly trail of hidden treasure, but plunged them into a six-gun war that’d leave gunsmoke and splattered blood on every one-horse town and mining camp from Kansas clear to Colorado!<br />
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The fur trader William Sublette departed for a rendezvous scheduled to occur that summer at Pierre’s Hole, a valley in the Grand Teton Mountains. Sublette arrived at the rendezvous point in June and he successfully traded his supplies for furs and enjoyed a reunion with his brother Milton. As the rendezvous broke up on July 17, Sublette’s brother left, leading a party of trappers toward the Snake River. They had gone seven miles when they encountered a band of Gros Ventres Indians. Foolishly, one of the trappers shot a Gros Ventres chief, and a battle erupted.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "georgia";">If you like this particular era in the Old West, why not try the Wilderness (book series) is the generational saga of a mountain man and his Shoshone wife by American author David Robbins. The series has run for twenty years, making it one of the longest contemporary series written by a single author. We publish both</span> <a href="http://www.piccadillypublishing.org/Wilderness/wilderness.html" target="_blank">Giant editions</a> <span style="font-family: "georgia";">and our own</span> <a href="http://www.piccadillypublishing.org/WildernessDouble/wildernessdouble.html" target="_blank">Double Editions</a>.<br />
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It all began on 9th May 2012 when Bodie 1: Trackdown by Neil Hunter was published and thus launched Piccadilly Publishing. Now, five years down the line, we have published over 250 books. We greatly appreciate all your support over the years. So, raise a shot of whiskey and help us toast this landmark. Here's to the next five years!</div>
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<span>Martha Jane Canary or Cannary, better known as Calamity Jane, was an American frontierswoman and professional scout, known for her claims of being an acquaintance of Wild Bill Hickok and fighting against Native Americans. </span><span>She was born on May 01, 1852 in Princeton, Missouri.</span><br />
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<span>To mark what would have been her next birthday on May 01, 2018 we will be publishing the J.T. Edson's series featuring the lady herself. Covers are by the indomitable, <strong>Tony Masero</strong>.
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Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-70656588919046768822016-09-30T06:39:00.000-07:002016-09-30T06:39:11.875-07:00Before Sons of Anarchy there was The Last Heroes<br />
<i>'These were not men of the nineteen-eighties, used to slick suits and the soft answer. There was a primitive violence and strength in the Angles.'</i><br />
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For the first time in electronic form, we are proud to announce that Mick Norman's Hells Angels series will be made available in two omnibus editions coming in November and December 2016.<br />
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We will be releasing them under the umbrella name of <strong>FALLEN ANGELS</strong>. ANGEL FROM HELL and ANGEL CHALLENGE will make up Volume One and in Volume Two will be GUARDIAN ANGELS and ANGELS ON MY MIND.<br />
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Many of you might know that Mick Norman was none other than Laurence James (Crow; Herne the Hunter; Simon Rack). <br />
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Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-73060620434997429142016-09-27T04:14:00.000-07:002016-09-27T04:20:20.457-07:00Six Red Hot series Coming your way December 1st 2016<br />
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Piccadilly Publishinghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12136112237218189419noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2158552097003896185.post-89880593580237208112016-06-30T08:30:00.001-07:002016-06-30T08:30:11.651-07:00Coming 4th JulyWe have a treat for you this coming Independence Day.<br />
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We've brought forward the publication date for the first two titles in the brand new BEAR HASKELL - U.S. MARSHALL series written by Pete Brandvold.<br />
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Amazon.co.uk click <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=dp_byline_sr_ebooks_1?ie=UTF8&text=Peter+Brandvold&search-alias=digital-text&field-author=Peter+Brandvold&sort=relevancerank" target="_blank">here</a><br />
Smashwords click <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/byseries/25473" target="_blank">here</a><br />
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Italy’s expanding Leone Film Group is venturing into the Spaghetti Western territory so dear to its late great founder with an English-language TV series titled “Colt,” based on an idea developed by Sergio Leone, master of the genre.<br />
The concept is centered around the six-shooter packed by Clint Eastwood in “For a Fistful of Dollars.”<br />
“It’s from my father’s idea in which the gun was the main character and the device through which the tale is told,” said Raffaella Leone, who now runs Leone Film Group with her brother Andrea.<br />
“We are thinking of six episodes, each one connected to a single gun shot. But we could do more,” she added.<br />
Italian director Stefano Sollima, who has made a name for himself helming Sky’s naturalistic Neapolitan mob drama “Gomorra,” which is Italy’s all time top TV export, will direct the first two episodes and act as showrunner.</div>
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I am so sad to report the death of my buddy PAUL LEDERER, who recently joined Piccadilly Publishing, and whose book <a href="http://www.amazon.co.uk/Trail-Trinity-Piccadilly-Publishing-Western-ebook/dp/B018RBF3U0/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1459955240&sr=8-1&keywords=TRAIL+TO+TRINITY" target="_blank">THE TRAIL TO TRINITY</a> we published in January. I had enormous respect for Paul and always wanted to publish his Logan Winters series SPECTROS. Unfortunately, another publisher piped us to the post. So it was a very happy day when Paul emailed me out of the blue and said that he wished he had come over to Piccadilly Publishing sooner.<br />
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Well, it wasn't too late. We contracted Paul for eight standalone westerns, and he delivered four of them - all of which we intend to publish as a tribute to this great professional.<br />
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Paul Joseph Lederer, the La Mesa author of more than 100 novels, many of them Westerns, has died. His children said he suffered a brain aneurysm over the weekend.<br />
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Born in Ocean Beach, Lederer attended San Diego State and was in Air Force intelligence during the Vietnam War. He got into writing more out of necessity than passion, he said in a Union-Tribune interview last August, when he was 70.<br />
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"I was up one morning on the Black Sea, in Turkey, and I looked out over the ocean and I said, 'OK, you've got to do something, boy.'<br />
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"Once I had an artist praise my work, and once I had a writing teacher in high school who said, 'That's pretty good,' so I thought, OK, it's one of the two. Either that or manual labor, and I don't like that much, although I ended up doing a lot of that. I thought writing was something I could do and make a decent living."<br />
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Lederer was probably best known for his Indian Heritage Series. There were eight books, each about 500 pages, published in the 1980s. He did one on Tecumseh and his agent told him "Indian stories are in" so he did more: "Manitou's Daughter," "Way of the Wind," "North Star" and so on.<br />
"Cimarron Star," set on the Kansas frontier at the start of the Civil War, took him about 10 years to write. Others he did in about six weeks, cranking them out to meet a demand in the 1980s for Westerns. None of them started with an outline.<br />
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"I just scrawl hundreds of notes on the pieces of paper around my desk, mostly so I can remember names and where people are supposed to be," he said. "I'm more organic in my system. I put this person in a situation. What's he likely to do? He goes into a town, what could happen? What should happen? I take my choice and try to make things progress evenly."<br />
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Lederer was 70 at the time of the interview - too old, he said, to adapt to e-readers. But not too old to have his books re-published in electronic form. He'd recently sold 50 of his earlier books to an electronic publisher and was happy about the possibility they would be discovered by a new audience.<br />
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"I get to create people in my stories," he said. "I have made this person, and now I need to give him or her a life and carry it through to a happy ending."<br />
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