The latest Fight Card tale, Front Page Palooka – from Anthony Venutolo, writing as Jack Tunney – is now available at Amazon. But to whet your appetite, here’s the book trailer. And here’s the spiel: Newark, New Jersey, 1954 Years of fight halls and newsrooms have east coast sportswriter, Nick Moretti, looking for a change. [...]
Fight Card, co-creator, Paul Bishop was recently interviewed on the Book Life Now site, discussing the unique structure of the series. In part, he says: Then came a surprise – the stories were not only resonating with readers, but also with writers. Young writing lions such as Heath Lowrance, David Foster, Kevin Michaels, Terrence McCauley, [...]
11Sep13
Fight Card: Ladies Night
Something a little different from Fight Card this month – the first Fight Card Romance novel. Don’t screw up your nose – keep an open mind. After all, what do you think Rocky is? It’s a romance. Ladies Night is penned by Carol Malone – under the pseudonym ‘Jill Tunney’ (rather than Jack – makes [...]
31Aug13
Film Poster of the Day
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
30Aug13
Book Cover of the Day
Title: Hurricane: The Life of Rubin Carter, Fighter Author: James S. Hirsch Publisher: Fourth Estate Published: 2000 From the back: Rubin Carter was more than a boxer, a man who once knocked out a horse with a right cross. A former juvenile criminal in between a spell as a U.S. paratrooper, he ran guns for [...]
27Aug13
Kara Simsek (1985)
For the Fight Card completist who has to watch every boxing movie ever made, I give you Kara Simsek (1985) – or Turkish Rocky. Here’s the training sequence. Enjoy the goodness. You can thank me later…
3Jul13
Brooklyn Beatdown
Just a heads up to all the Fight Card fans, that the latest story is now live. Brooklyn Beatdown, is the title, and hiding behind the Jack Tunney pseudonym is prolific pulp author Derrick Ferguson, the creator of one of New Pulp’s most distinctive characters – Dillon. In Fight Card: Brooklyn Beatdown, Derrick brings us [...]
30May13
Fight Card: Get Hit, Hit Back
G’day folks. The latest Fight Card novella, Get Hit, Hit Back – written by John Kenyon (as Jack Tunney) is now available for kindle. After last months diversion into MMA, Fight Card is back with an old school boxing story (but MMA fans, don’t worry – there’s more MMA take down action coming later in [...]
My second Fight Card novelette, Rumble in the Jungle is now live and available for kindle (the paperback shouldn’t be far away). The Fight Card books are a blast to write, so when I finished up my first entry in the series, King of the Outback, I immediately knew I wanted to write another. However, [...]
5Dec12
Fight Card: The Knockout
December’s Fight Card novelette, and the twelfth title in the series, The Knockout is now live – and the man behind the Jack Tunney pen name this time is Robert Randisi. The Fight Card series are monthly 25,000 word novelettes, designed to be read in one or two sittings, and are inspired by the fight [...]
