Jim Anthony, Super Detective

You may have noticed my postings have been rather scant as of late. Primarily, this is because I've been using every spare moment of time editing the manuscript for The Nuclear Suitcase, recording a studio demo with my band Voice of Reason (VOR) and working on a project for the Airship 27 publishing company.

Editor, Ron Fortier, of Airship 27 has asked me to contribute a story for an anthology of Jim Anthony, Super Detective stories. They have already released one anthology, and are planning a second and even a third anthology.



Who is Jim Anthony, you might ask? Jim Anthony is a classic pulp character whose stories were published in the early 1940's. He's a half Irish, half Comanche with a brain as sharp as Sherlock Holmes and a Herculean physique, to boot.

He's obviously modeled after Doc Savage to some extent--though the writing of the original stories tends toward the mediocre and there were some different editorial approaches toward Jim Anthony (see the Somebody Dies blog for a review of a pair of the original tales). One approach was to make Jim Anthony very much a superman in the tradition of the Doc Savage tales. The other approach was to make Jim Anthony a hard-boiled style of detective.

In writing my Jim Anthony tale, entitled The Scream Hammer, I opted for a mix of the two. Jim Anthony is both a man of amazing abilities and a fallible human being.

As always, I'll provide you more information about my Jim Anthony project as it comes closer to fruition. In the meantime, the best way to get familiar with Jim Anthony is to pick up a copy of the Airship 27 anthology.