Howard Hopkins

Days have grown chilled here on the Ghost Coast of New Salem, Maine. But it's a chill of evil and a portent of impending tragedy. I know how it feels to lose a loved one to the forces of darkness. To lose an entire family. I know what suffering is. Some new to this cursed town do not. They've not experienced Hell up close and personal. But that will soon change. Celia Matthews...a young woman, just married. She sees a bright future. I wish I could save her from the disillusionment that will... Read Full Story

The good news for those of us authors and readers who work in the electronic book arena is that Kindle reigned supreme with holiday sales among ereaders, and Nook also did quite well. In the fading hours of Christmas my own Nightmare Club paranormal series for children saw a huge increase in sales that has continued over the proceeding week, as well as a decent increase in my paranormal horror series The Chloe Files and my newly inaugurated western line that began with Blood Creek and Johnny... Read Full Story

Doc Savage returns in a brand new adventure written by Doc Savage historian Will Murray (writing under the cherished house name of Kenneth Robeson) in Horror in Gold . With a new gorgeous cover painting by Joe DeVito, this marks Doc's second all new "wild" adventure, with the promise of more to come. The book is available from Amazon and through retail outlets in paperback, and also in ebook versions, including Kindle and Nook. Doc Savage and adventures fans alike won't want to miss the... Read Full Story

I'm being interviewed over on Ashley Barron's blog today. Ashley was kind enough to let me take up much space discussing writing in various genres, the business of writing and my series, as well as advice for those just starting out. I hope you'll take a look. You can find the interview here: http://blog.thepriyas.com/2012/01/08/author-interview-howard-hopkins.aspx Read Full Story

Clouds hide the winter sun on the Ghost Coast of News Salem, Maine. They are the color of melancholy. I sometimes think there are clouds in my soul. I often wonder how my sister could have vanished so entirely from the face of the earth thirty years ago. I should have found some trace of her by now. Maybe that means I'm fooling myself by holding onto hope she may still be alive. Maybe the ghost I've been seeing really is her. Still, too many things don't add up. What few clues I've discovered... Read Full Story

From out of the past come the roaring guns of a man long thought dead. Is he ghost or man? Johnny Dead by Howard Hopkins is now available in Kindle and Nook. Formerly a Black Horse Western published under the penname Lance Howard, this new edition carries a brand new cover. From the blurb: Two years ago, ambushed by masked killers, brought down by blazing guns, manhunter John Deletéreo, his wife and unborn child perished under the hot New Mexico sun, the only testament to their demise two... Read Full Story

Writers are always thinking. And not always in normal directions. But what fun is normalcy, anyway? Since I have just finished drafting a major YA paranormal series project (which will consist of three lead novellas followed by an explosive and large, 110,000 words plus, novel launch) I noticed a strange--I guess the only word I can find for it is "break" -- detachment after typing -30- (something writers used to use to mean "The End" from the old telegraph days) and leaving my "girls" behind... Read Full Story

Ring in the New year with a paranormal bang! I'm pleased to announce that for a limited time The Chloe Files #2: Sliver of Darkness is on sale on Kindle exclusively for $2.99. That's a dollar off the publication price for a complete Chloe Everson novel plus a bonus short story that sends our paranormal investigator back in a ghostly 1920s flapper party. From the blurb: "Engaging and fresh...an imaginative ghost story, filled with mystery and chilling scenes." --Margaret Marr, Nights... Read Full Story

'Tis the close of the old year and the time when we humans engage in that old tradition of making resolutions. Some of us, perhaps, set the bar a bit too high and those resolutions fall by the wayside after a few weeks or a month or two. A few decide the resolutions weren't what they wanted in the first place and reassess. Some succeed, or surpass. It's good to make goals. Little ones, especially, since obtaining them gives us confidence and the desire to build from those successes. Of course... Read Full Story

There's a woman who works at the Museum of Natural History here in New Salem, Maine. Her name is Genie Lansing. She owns a 600-year-old monkey...that's what she tells me, anyway. But that's about ALL she tells me. There's something about her I can't figure out. She vanishes from closed rooms, shows up in locked houses. She says she's not allowed to interfere when I need her...yet finds a way to do just enough...and nothing more. I can't tell if she's friend or foe...or working on her own... Read Full Story