Tag: Stephen Helmes

Presumed Dead – a Review

Reggie is a psychic who lives and works in Irvine, Kentucky, but no one else in that small town knows about her psychic abilities. And that isn’t the only secret this lady has. Her name isn’t really Reggie. Why doesn’t she want others to know she is a psychic? Why is she using an alias?…

Bodacious Creed – a Review

What if once you died, you could be rebuilt and brought back to life? Before I began to read Bodacious Creed, I saw that it was steampunk zombie western. I know what a zombie is and I know what a western is. But what is steampunk? That is one genre that I hadn’t read before.…

Michael Bray – From Fiction to Reality: A Year Spent With a Paranormal Investigation Team

I’ve been writing now since 2012. Just to think about that passage of time is pretty scary. Since then I’ve turned out lots of books, one of which has been adapted into a film for which I also co-wrote the screenplay. Other titles have since been translated into multiple languages all over the world which…

Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight – a Review

What is poetry? According to dictionary.com, poetry is the art of rhythmical composition, written or spoken, for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts. I had to read poetry when I was in school. To be honest, I never thought much of it except for two poems by Edgar Allan Poe: “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.”…

Matthew Keith – Indie Authors: It’s About Enjoying the Ride

I can still remember the day I hit Amazon’s “publish” button for the first time. Afterward, I told my wife, “If even one person reads this book and likes it, that’ll be enough for me.” That was in November of 2013. I’d just finished my first novel, a one-hundred-ten-thousand-word, year-and-a-half-long project that had been one…