The redline edits for Suckerpunch are done and the book is now in production. The next time I see it, it will be formatted as a paperback, which is very cool. The team at Medallion did a great job cleaning up the manuscript, and I learned a lot about what to do and what not to do going forward. When it comes down to choosing between what is grammatically correct and what sounds better on the page, I lean toward what sounds better. But if it...

I just signed the contract with Medallion Press to publish Suckerpunch. My great agent Margaret worked with the Medallion staff to work everything out, and it all looks great. I didn’t see anything in there about firstborn children or souls, but the crew at Medallion are a cheeky, clever bunch…my kind of folks!

Pretty cool – I used to get these updates and drool over the deals while I worked on my stuff. “Jeremy Brown’s SUCKERPUNCH, pitched as Elmore Leonard meets Fight Club, featuring a wise-cracking, southpaw heavyweight, a modern-day cage fighter trying to shake his criminal past as he works his way toward the title, to Helen Rosburg at Medallion Press, in a nice deal, by Margaret ...

My fantastic agent Margaret secured a deal with the great crew at Medallion Press, and Suckerpunch and Woodshed Wallace will be published in 2011! You have one year to prepare for the jaw-busting action and neck-torquing plot twists, so get your page turning techniques trained into muscle memory.

The latest revision is being reviewed by my agent, and will hopefully go out to editors soon. Back up – what the what is Suckerpunch? Suckerpunch is the first book in a series featuring heavyweight mixed martial artist Aaron “Woodshed” Wallace, who is stuck on no-name cards for tiny organizations. Woody is trying to put his violent (and, ahem, possibly illegal) past behind him with help from his trainer and mentor, Brazilian jiu jitsu...