Tarnished Star becomes LawMaster

There were several suggestion kicked around for a title, when it was decided to change the name from The Tarnished Star for the forthcoming movie. LawMaster, written like that, one word with the M capitalised, was my own suggestion and that seems to be the one we're going to use.

LawMaster
 
I like it - it's modern sounding and the capital M offers some nice design possibilities for the posters and so forth. Of course it's also perfectly logical because the main character's name is Cole Masters.

The state of play at the moment - well director, Neil Jones is shut away working on the script and once that's done, I'll be contributing to that first draft myself so that the version eventually on the screen will be a full collaboration between Neil Jones and Jack Martin. As Neil told me, "I want to collaborate 120%"

It's all very exciting and I hope that we produce a western that is both traditional and ultra modern. Things will probably go quiet for the moment, as Neil works on his new feature film, The Reverend, but we are hoping to start shooting LawMaster in 2012.

In the meantime I leave you with the official trailer from the current release, Risen which was also directed by Neil.

ARKANSAS SMITH ONCE AGAIN

UNDER his pen-name Jack Martin, Gary Dobbs produced in 2009 the fastest-selling Black Horse Western ever. The Hale-published fiction line, established in its present form in 1986, had previously been marketed actively only to British and Commonwealth public lending libraries. Gary's runaway success was achieved by way of online, retail, non-library sales.

The performance was outstanding and managed largely on the Net via Gary's hugely popular blog, The Tainted Archive. Gary quickly realized, as the sales of his debut novel totted up, that it was going to be a hard act to follow.

He said, "After The Tarnished Star I wanted to try a new kind of character, one that would develop over a series of stories." FULL STORY AND INTERVIEW AT THE BLACK HORSE EXTRA WEBZINE