To Wage a Peaceful War

We all know Shakespeare’s famous line, that the pen is mightier than the sword. But one young Assyrian Christian boy is proving that the chisel holds the same power. According to CNN, seventeen-year-old Nenous Thabit has been meticulously recreating priceless...

Jennifer the Damned Now on Kindle

Just in time for Halloween and the first anniversary of the print edition, Jennifer the Damned is now available on Kindle for only $3.99.  All the grim horror and dry wit of the original wrapped up into a creepy but value-priced digital package.  You’re...

Book Talk on Jennifer the Damned

If you couldn’t make it out to the Louisiana Book Festival this year, well, you missed some beautiful weather and a lot of fun.  But fortunately, you didn’t miss my talk about Jennifer the Damned.  Here it is!   Karen Ullo is the author of the vampire...

Literature, It Is a-Changing

In case you missed it, this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded to Bob Dylan. Yes, that Bob Dylan. What does it mean for the world of literature when the best it has to offer is not a poet (in the traditional sense) or a novelist or a playwright, but a rock...

Quotes for Election Day

I wrote this two years ago for the mid-term elections (published over at Dappled Things), but it seems even more apropos now.  Enjoy! *** I don’t know about you, but I always seem to leave the voting booth with my eyes closed and my upper lip curled from the stench...

Louisiana Book Festival

I have been selected as a Featured Author at the Louisiana Book Festival in downtown Baton Rouge on Saturday, Oct. 29!  I will be doing a Book Talk about Jennifer the Damned from 10:45 am to 11:15 am in the Capitol Park Welcome Center Meeting Room, followed by a book...