Hey Zack. Thanks, and good to hear from you. I just finished watching your video on Kings book of short stories. Very cool. Yeah it's crazy to think Stine was writing a book a month and he must have done it for years. I'm digging the Howler and can't wait to read more Nightmare Room ...and Fear Street. I'm gonna read more Pike too.

Thanks alot. Yeah I've heard from a lot of folks that Whisper of Death is excellent. I'm excited to read that one. I also want to read his adult horror book the Cold One.

Thanks so much for the cool comments and the recommendation. Lockwood and Co. sounds pretty cool. I'll definitely check it out.

Thank you so much my friend. I have heard of Greg Iles. Haven't read his work yet but will. I'm from Mississippi originally and there are so many writers from there. I grew up loving Barry Hannah, Faulkner, Larry Brown and John Kennedy Toole from New Orleans. And hell yes, the heat is suffocating. I love Natchez. It's a beautiful old city.

Mississippi has writers and even more Musicians! Yeah. If you Love history, Natchez is the place to be. Oh. and Vicksburg where you went

Thank you my friend, and thanks for reading Laughing is Forever. At the last minute I changed the font to Cambria so it would be a bit.....richer. Darker. Are you trying to publish your work and/or enter contests?

@@Sunnyvalereject24 Well, these days, I self-publish some small poetry collections mostly just for me. I will have those books to hold during the rare times I read at a poetry reading. It's too much like the old music business to me to send off manuscripts and enter contests. There were things in music that I didn't want anything to do with so I didn't. You probably know Dave Williams from Drowning Pool. He was a freshman in high school while I was a senior and we talked, etc. a few times. He is an example of someone very serious to be known and popular, etc. I haven't written a song since 2005 that I can think of. I need art to feel more like a hobby and to not be so serious about it. Another guy I know enters lots of book contests and has won a few awards. He told me to enter contests but I haven't. Maybe I will send a few poems out in the future to a small publisher to include in a poetry collection. The one poem I sent you is from a simple book I made. I like the white paperback version I made. I don't think the black hardback looks as good and it costs so much more to make.

When you speak, you make a lot of sense. I hear what you're saying about self publishing. It's the very best way to go these days. Especially if you believe in yourself. I mean there's really no money in publishing, for the author, so why not do it yourself and keep control. Publishers want to control the narrative and the profits. I like entering contests tho. I want and need confirmation that my shit rocks. Someone besides those who care about me telling me it's good, you know. And it certainly helps in bi lines and marketing material. I can always tell you're coming from an honorable standpoint.