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Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World on Kindle

February 21, 2013 Jack Corbett Leave a comment

the Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World is now published on Kindle. Hopefully I can finish a printed version in a month. Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World is my fourth book and the first I’ve published on Kindle after publishing the printed edition.

from Extreme Guns Babes — Of all the things I miss most about the U.S., it’s my Wilson Arms customized .45 automatic. I started shooting my Dad’s World War II .45 automatic when I was 10 years old. My Dad used to wet the tip of his thumb. Then he’d make a mark with the saliva on a board. I could hit it most of the time when I was 10. Dad always said that nothing compared to a good .45 auto. My nephew and I agree. Both of us claim, “Real Men shoot 45’s.” You will find much of this in “xtreme Guns Babes for an Adult World”.

The book has a lot of pictures. And since a book containing full color images is so expensive to produce I felt Kindle represented a far more affordable option. Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World contains sensational pictures of sexy strippers. Carrying guns. And Kindle captures such riveting pictures much better than print ever can.

I think electronic publishing is the future, but I still want to have my own copy. That I can see, feel and touch of something that’s entirely my own.

That represents a combination of the best that I could do with camera, and Graphics Arts to design the book. But the pictures will be much smaller and they will be in black and white. So for most of you who are interested in this book, I recommend getting it on Kindle.

The title Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World says a lot about this book. I produced the book within the context of the adult world. That is the adult entertainment world of strippers, topless dancers, feature entertainers and topless clubs. I did some of my photo shoots in topless clubs, And all of my models for Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World without a single exception were strippers or feature entertainers. I wrote over twenty of my articles for Xtreme Magazine, a small adult magazine on the East Coast. And I shot all the pictures of the models in the articles. Some of the articles never made it into Xtreme for one reason or the other.

Jeremy was the reason I was able to write gun articles for an adult magazine. When I met Jeremy he was Xtreme’s editor.

Now he’s in charge of all four of Xtreme’s franchises and has to concentrate on making money for the magazine. When Jeremy asked me to write an article about my .454 Casul revolver, he was writing a large portion of Xtreme’s articles himself. There was the Horror Scope. And no, that is not a misspelling. Jeremy’s horoscopes were insanely funny. And when I first started out writing for Xtreme Jeremy was writing his “Adventures of the Backdoor Man in his Search for the Holy Tail” series. By the time he wrote “The Laundryman Pervert” which he did not dare publish in Xtreme, it was obvious that Jeremy was pretty far out there.

My article on my .454 Casul, a revolver that’s so powerful that it would often be used to hunt elephants and Alaskan Brown Bear, represented an abrupt departure from anything that could be expected from an adult magazine focusing on Tits and Ass. “The 454, One handed Buffalo Stopper”didn’t even mention women. There were no pictures or reference to them whatsoever.

Taylor from PT’s posed with the Walther PPK for the Roxy’s Bombshell article of Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World

I didn’t even include in my second second gun article either. For “The Israeli Soldier and his Uzi”

I went to a university’s library to find articles covering Israel’s Seven Day War. Although I actually put a couple hundred rounds through a fully automatic Uzi sub machine gun the article focused on the Historical reasons Israel would arm its troops with such a short ranged weapon. I did not bring female models into my gun articles until the book’s third chapter. And then I brought a young shapely PT’s stripper to my apartment for “The Roxy’s Bomb Girl and 007’s Walther PPK.

There are several aspects about the Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World magazine articles that made them unique .

First, I never wrote them for an audience whose concern is only about guns. Since “Xtreme” was a free magazine that was distributed in topless clubs, I had to design it to appeal to readers who are less technically inclined than your typical gun magazines reader.

Since I have a keen interest in History I’d often write about the Historical context that caused each weapon to evolve the way it did. I’m sure the book turned out to be vastly different from what most from what people expected from a series of gun articles called Xtreme Weapons Babes in an Adult World.

For the most part the articles are all about guns just as one might expect out of any other gun article. True enough, I spent a lot of time choosing the models for the photo shoots accompanying the articles. There was also a lot of attention to detail during the photo shoots.

Not only from me, but also from the women posing with the weapons.

These are exotic entertainers after all and what most people don’t realize is the women are very professional when it comes to doing pictures.

Professional adult entertainers such as Leah Layne will insist that a photographer shoots at least 100 pictures of them. Leah Layne will play her part in the Tec 9 Shootout at Peter’s Corral episode of Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World

Most women outside the adult industry will pose in front of a camera for two or three pictures tell their husband or boyfriend photographer, “That’s enough. ” But adult entertainers will shoot over two hundred pictures knowing full well that nothing less than perfection will do. And that the lighting for a picture can change at a moment’s notice. Or the slightest change of expression will ruin a picture. The photographer also needs to take the most favorable angles of the model to show her figure off to full advantage. Typically my photo shoots for Extreme Guns Babes for an Adult World would comprise between one and two hundred pictures.

Above all I wasn’t just some guy out to make a buck who’s snap up a couple of women to shoot pictures of them with guns. I was a gun nut myself who truly looked forward to doing each gun article as an opportunity to fully explore the potential of those weapons I was personally interested in.

Consider that my first gun was a 30-06 Springfield which I worked all summer for when I was just twelve years old. This was no pellet gun or even a .22.

It shot three and a half inch shells and it would penetrate right through a thirty inch tree. So when I’ was contemplating what weapon to cover next for Xtreme I’d start thinking about what gun I wanted to shoot next. Or which gun I had read a lot about, oftentimes from boyhood on,. And then I’d set about trying to find that particular gun for my next gun article.

When it came to the M-1 Garand, I went out and spent eight hundred dollars of my own money just so that I could personally experience all the great things about the M-1 that gave the American infantryman such a huge edge over his counterparts during the 2nd World War.

The same thing happened to me with the Springfield M-1 A. When I first wrote about the rifle for Xtreme I had taken Darien Ross all the way down to Vic Meyers’ farm so that she could model with his M-15.

Which was a fully automatic version of the M1’s successor. But I became so intrigued with my own article that I went out and bought my own Springfield M-1 A. Which is a commercialized version of the miliary’s M14 and M15’s.

The same would prove true with my M-16 article. Again, I took the model, in this case Arianna a del, to Vic Meyer’s farm where she poses with an M-16. But it wasn’t long after Xtreme Published the article that I bought my own M-16 in the form of an AR-15 which is the civilian version of the military weapon.

I think everyone involved had a terrific time doing those Xtreme Weapons photo shoots that were the heart of the gun articles.

The girls loved posing with the guns, oftentimes getting to shoot automatic weapons in the process. And since I didn’t have any automatic weapons which are illegal to own unless one has a specialized license to have or sell them, I was able to get anything I wanted because I could offer the gun dealers who had them a part in the photo shoots that centered around a very attractive personable adult entertainer.

It took a lot of far sighted fun loving people to get all those photo shoots and magazine articles done. Starting with an editor who wanted to produce something that was far more interesting than what all the other magazines were printing. And it took a group of women who’d be willing to spend a lot of their time getting to and from the photo shoots without receiving any direct cash reimbursement. And then there were the gun dealers. It’s not easy to find a 50 caliber tripod mounted machine gun and then one needs to set it up for the photo shoot. So I owe all of them a lot for all their hard work and time. This is the result of all that went into over two years of all that tremendous effort.

You might also be interested in reading about how Hitler belittled digital photography

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Why two editions of “Death on the Wild Side”?

February 20, 2012 Jack Corbett 1 Comment

.There are two editions of Death on the Wild Side because I wanted the book to look a lot better. So I did the entire 2nd edition myself.

In 1995 I published the 1st edition of Death on the Wild Side. Back in those days I visited the strip clubs in the Saint Louis Metro East three times a week. I farmed 560 acres by myself while writing the novel. I kept very busy back then and today I am simply amazed that I could accomplish it all. Being at times a bit of a braggart and very much a showoff, back in the clubs I kept telling everyone, “Yes, I am writing a novel and I will have it published soon”, and true to my word, I did.

Death on the Wild Side novel — I bought the ship for $60.00 in Hanoi. One exactly like it costs $1000 in Thailand. The new 2nd edition of Death on the Wild Side is as visually stunning as the ship.

I was using film cameras back in those days so when I got around to putting the pictures together for Death on the Wild Side I had to depend on the quality of my cameras. And how good a job others could do processing the film and getting the pictures print ready.

Although I typeset the entire book myself using my Word perfect Word processor I looked over twenty-four different printing companies to see which one could do the best job at the best price. I chose Gilliand Printing Company to do the job. Then I ordered a large enough number of books so that I could buy in at a low enough cost. So that I could hopefully make some money out of Death on the Wild Side. Gilliand produced the novel’s covers based on my initial specifications.

With the book finished at last, it was time to decide how to sell it. Only then did I begin to learn the harsh truths of what I was up against. First off, a self published author such as myself could expect low profit margins. Even worse, the prospect of facing bookstores and other outlets that paid their bills 60 days or even later came as a shock. I got an even greater shock when I learned that oftentimes the author-publisher would not be paid at all. The next harsh reality was the issue of damaged books. And that I’d likely be responsible for any books one of my re-sellers claimed got damaged in his store.

This whole thing was starting to look like a very bad deal for me, and no fun at all. But I learned about these self publishing harsh realities in how to do books after it was already too late. After that truck dropped off a few pallets of books at my front door. I soon came contrived numerous excuses for avoiding the plunge into such self publishing unpleasantness. Such as cold calling book stores and acting as my own collection agency. I had to harvest corn, plant soybeans, supercharge my Miata sports car, etc.

Then I discovered the internet and said to myself…”Now that’s the way I need to go out and sell Death on the Wild Side.

But by discovering the internet I created a monster. Digital photography was a monster. Because it took me completely away from my original purpose of getting on the internet in the first place. Which was to sell books. I started doing a lot of digital photography because I could easily put whatever pictures I took up on the internet.

And because I was already visiting strip clubs on a regular basis I found that I had gotten very popular with strippers in the Saint Louis Metro East and certain club managers and owners.

The digital photography ended up paying huge dividends and to make a long story short, eventually I found myself writing two articles a month for adult magazines while shooting pictures in strip clubs all over the United States.

Oftentimes clubs and feature talent agencies were paying for my hotel rooms. And strip clubs were paying me several hundred dollars a night to hang out with the kind of people I always wanted to hang out with in the first place.

By then, I didn’t know if I should tell people I was a writer or a photographer. I was already Jack Corbett, which wasn’t my real name. And although I had started out as a writer by writing Death on the Wild Side, people had started calling me “the photographer.” So was I a photographer or was I a writer? For Xtreme Magazine I did both. But what was I really best at? And I was doing my own web site work as well.

I started to think of myself as a jack of all trades and a master of none. I wasn’t making a living doing photography. Most of my money was coming in from the farm. And when people would offer to pay me money for shooting weddings and other events I had no interest in, Id simply tell them. “No way.” Once in awhile people would ask me to shoot porn. And once again, I’d tell them, “I’m not into it and I’m not doing it.”

By this time I was starting to shoot a little video and my stripper friends and I started to concoct some really off the wall stuff while enjoying ourselves to the hilt.

I met my real Waterloo when my editor from Xtreme Magazine asked me to do a cartoon to go with one of my Dick Fitswell articles.

Jeremy was about to publish it in Xtreme. So I told Jeremy, “Look, I can take excellent pictures. And I can write well enough and I can do web site work. But there’s one thing I can’t do. I just can’t draw.” Jeremy asked me to try anyway. So I drew a cartoon and after Jeremy received it, he replied, “You sure were right, Jack. You really can’t draw.”

Eventually I ended up moving to Thailand. Where I started playing around with the idea of writing a few short stories some of my new companions.

When one of my German friends found out I was writing about a German builder I called “Herman the German” he started laughing his ass off, and from then on he kept asking me about how I was faring with Herman the German and the Fun House.

My German friend kept goading me on. So eventually I turned my little project into the novel that became, Welcome to the Fun House. It was while writing Welcome to the Fun House that I really started to investigate “Print by Demand Publishing” where I could turn out just one or two or for that matter two hundred books at a time with virtually no up front costs to myself.

At this time another one of my German friends, Ludwig Johner, a retired architect, was doing oil painting upstairs while taking care of his ninety year old mother who had Alzheimer’s disease. I felt Ludwig was truly an excellent artist with a really whacked out way of looking at life through his paintings and that’s when I decided that the front cover design for Welcome to the Fun House should be based on one of his paintings. I wound up producing the entire design of the back cover from scratch by myself.

When my first proof copies of Welcome to the Fun House came in I was astonished at how good the book looked.

To my eyes it looked far more attractive than the usual fare one finds in most bookstores. I had learned something after all from playing around with graphics arts programs such as Photoshop doing promo for strippers and doing my web site work. And that is when I vowed to turn out a new edition of Death on the Wild Side. Everything had just turned out so well with Welcome to the Fun House from the quality of the paper, the overall appearance of the book and the attractiveness of the text inside the book, but most of all it was the front and rear covers that made the book exceed my expectations.

The first big decision I had to make about the coming 2nd edition of Death on the Wild Side was who was going to be my cover girl. I had thousands of pictures to choose from that I had taken in strip clubs from Las Vegas, the Saint Louis Metro East. Indiana, and Texas, all the way over to the East Coast in Rhode Island, Pennsylvania and Massachusetts and I had scores of entertainers to choose from. I asked myself, “out of all those entertainers, which girl most consistently photographed the best? In my heart, I knew who the girl would be before I even delved into all those pictures. So it didn’t take long out of those thousands of pictures for me to find the perfect shot.

When I received my two proof copies of Death on the Wild Side from Amazon I was stunned. The book was simply gorgeous.

My Thai girlfriend immediately said, “I want one. That one is my copy,” she said while pointing at one of the two books. She still keeps it close to her bedside.

It is as close to perfection as I could make it. As for its ultimate success or failure in the marketplace, only time will tell. After all, I might not be really all that terrific as an author. Who knows. Even so, if it were in a bookstore right now competing for space against all its competition, I am confident it would be crying out, “Look at me. Look at me. See how pretty I am.”

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