Well, it started yesterday, but I had already posted, so I'll give it a shout out today. The cover design to KILLER OF KILLERS is now one of the Coming Soon books featured on that moving showcase of book designs. They all look good, really, but you'll excuse my bias if I say KILLER OF KILLERS looks the best. But it's the only martial arts action book up there.
I've post before how martial arts novels are not numerous. And I think that KILLER OF KILLERS is far and away the best of the few that are out there. And I think that some of those that I have perused are not really martial arts books. The Jonathan Hemlock books for instance, have been labeled martial arts action books on some site that I researched. Now I never read them, but I saw the Clint Eastwood movie, The Eiger Sanction, and it was a great movie, too, but a martial arts action story? Not unless Mr. Eastwood took major liberties with the storyline.
And yeah, Hollywood does that, but since that is what I've got to go on, I would not place it in a martial arts category.
But Killer of Killers is totally martial arts. And if I get lucky enough for a movie producer to make a movie out of it, then there is no way they could change it from that. I don't think they would want to. Clint is too tall for the part anyway. I've made it a focal point in the story that the main character is an avereaged sized fighter. Clint is 6'4" last I heard. And way too old now.
But you know what? If this were still in the seventies, and Mr. Eastwood wanted to play the part? Naahh... Chuck Norris maybe... But he'd have to dye his hair brown. Trent Smith is no blondie.
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