The Ruby Files debuts with a free preview e-book!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

March 19, 2012

Contact:

Bobby Nash

bobby@bobbynash.com

Sean Taylor

Staylor104@aol.com

The Ruby Files debuts with a free preview e-book!

Atlanta GA –Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor are so convinced you’ll love their new book The Ruby Files that they’re giving you part of it for free. Yes, free.

“Airship 27 is going out of its way to make this book an excellent jumping on point for fans of action and adventure and guns and gumshoes,” says co-creator Sean Taylor: “This is the first time the company has offered a free preview, and Bobby and I are thrilled to be able to provide it to you. We both think The Ruby Files is a fantastic book, and we’re willing to give part of it away just to prove it to you.”

You can snag your free copy of The Ruby Files preview PDF at http://www.taylorverse.com/Rick%20Ruby%20Preview%20Edition.pdf

Says co-creator Bobby Nash: "I'm excited to introduce Rick Ruby and his bevvy of beautiful ladies to the world. Sean Taylor and I had a blast creating Ruby's world and all who inhabit it. This volume contains four exciting stories from four incredible creators. Crack open The Ruby Files. It's a wild ride."

It was the 1930s, and America was locked in the grip of the Great Depression. Gangsters controlled the major cities while outlaws roamed the rural back country. It was a time of speakeasy gin-joints, Tommy guns, fast cars and even faster dames. This is the world of New York based Private Investigator Rick Ruby, a world he is all too familiar with. From the back alleys of Gotham to the gold laden boulevards of Hollywood, Ruby is the shamus with a nose for trouble and an insatiable appetite for justice. So if you’ve got a taste for hot lead and knuckle sandwiches, tug your cuffs, adjust your fedora and light up a Lucky, a brand new pulp detective is coming your way.

Created by pulp masters, Bobby Nash and Sean Taylor, Rick Ruby echoes the tales of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe while offering up his own brand of two-fisted action. Joined by fellow pulp smiths Andrew Salmon and William Patrick Maynard, these modern scribes of purple prose present a quartet of tales to delight any true lover of private eye fiction. This instant classic features a gorgeous Mark Wheatley cover and eight evocative black and white illustrations by Rob Moran.

The Ruby Files hearkens back to the classic black and white Warner Brothers gangster movies that featured James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart and Edward G. Robinson (to name a few). The atmosphere pure noir, gritty with a no-nonsense hero pulp fans are going to applaud from the first story to the last. And when that last tale comes to a close, you can bet we haven’t seen the last of Rick Ruby, Private.

AIRSHIP 27 PRODUCTIONS – PULP FICTION FOR A NEW GENERATION!

To purchase The Ruby Files:

$3 digital copy from Airship 27 direct -
(http://www.airship27hangar.com)

From Amazon -
(http://www.amazon.com/Ruby-Files-One-1/dp/0615609236/ref=ntt_at_ep_dpt_10)

From Indy Planet -
(http://www.indyplanet.com/store/product_info.php?products_id=6797)

For more information:

To learn more about The Ruby Files, please visit the official website at http://rickruby.blogspot.com and check out the book’s official trailer at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYEbebg9U-Y.

For more information about Bobby Nash, visit his official website at http://www.bobbynash.com or his blog at http://ben-books.blogspot.com/.

For more information about Sean Taylor, visit his official website at  http://www.taylorverse.com or his writing blog at http://seanhtaylor.blogspot.com.

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Opening the Ruby Files -- Teaser #1

From "Wounds" by Andrew Salmon

The grey pall of early twilight muffled the city’s raging at the gradual dying of the light. Thick pewter clouds spanned the horizon, giving the sky the appearance of an inverted bed of coals as they were touched, here and there, with the last rays of the setting December sun between the New York skyscrapers. Such skies always reminded Rick Ruby of his father and the cancerous death dreams die.

His old man had told him once, while on leave before shipping out forever twenty years ago, that overcast skies were a reminder to us down here on earth that sometimes evil is in the air, brewing hate in a cauldron as broad as the human heart, and how easy it was to forget that when the sun was shining and the sky was so blue you felt moved to tears.

However the reasons for Ruby’s mood ran deeper than that. The Christmas season always brought him back to how his father had spent his last Christmas Eve: in a stinking trench in France. That evening, December 24th, 1917, the enemy overran the position and one son of a bitch had buried a bayonet in his father’s chest before the attack was beaten back. His father’s platoon was on the fringe of the battle and was cut off. So his father had lain there, leaking life through a pierced lung while carols were sung and the two armies crossed no man’s land to show family photos, share wine and easy talk until dawn when stretcher bearers finally reached the muddy hole and carted his father off to die at the aid station.

Christmas was a time of hate for Rick Ruby. Hate for the enemy bastard who had murdered his father and hate for cruel fate that had put his dad in that position in the first place. It was irrational, he knew, but years growing up in a foster home, without a real family, skewed things a certain way and Ruby’s hate was the only thing that was truly his.

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