My new horror book, The 9 Ghosts of Samen's Bane, is available now at amazon.com and target.com (ISBN#144215408X). Here's the description;

The 9 Ghosts of Samen's Bane follows one father's ordeal with the 9 ghosts that have taken up residence in his mind. What do they want? To use him as a conduit for their amazing abilities with the ultimate goal being the destruction of the powerful god and lord of evil spirits, Samen. Full of ancient myth, legends from Indiana's haunted past, and terrifying… Continue

I remember countless times when I felt alone in the company of others.

One time I was on a date with a boy at a fast food restaurant in Lakewood, Colorado called The Wienerschnitzel. It was a Thursday, 'Classic Cars' night at the Weinerschnitzel, and the parking lot was packed with Thunderbirds and Fords and Cadillacs. My date owned a Thunderbird. He loved eating hot dogs. So did his family, who also owned an assortment of classic cars and who were also there that Thursday night at The Wienersc… Continue

Open Books, an online publisher of literary classics, contemporary fiction and nonfiction and avante garde and multimedia presentations, recently published Alone In The Company Of Others by author Kelly Huddleston in an Amazon Kindle Edition as well as on the Harper Collins UK web site, http://authonomy.com., where other writers, as well as readers, are invited to comment on uploaded books.

Once Alone In The Company Of Others was posted and available to re… Continue

The March 2009 issue of Harper's Magazine featured a lead article entitled, "The Last Book Party: Publishing Drinks to a Life After Death" by Gideon Lewis-Kraus. In that article the author made it known that the mainstream publishing industry had informally made 2009 'the year of the vampire', so I can only assume that the editors working for those iconic New York publishers had been bitten en mass by a single marsupial antagonist.

Apparently their call for bloodsucking heros and heroines has n… Continue

Isn't it obvious yet? Writers and publishers who are publishing their books online, and promoting them through the vast reach of social networks, are engaged in nothing less than a grass roots movement to reclaim art, not only for artists, but for the public at large.

New platforms such as Amazon Kindle and the Microsoft e-book reader have made it possible to publish books and magazines online at little or no cost. At present, nearly 600,000 Kindle readers have been purchased, and sales of Kind… Continue