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Amy Amy is the acquisitions editor in charge paranormal subjects at Llewellyn. With ten years experience in the publishing world, Amy is excited to have her love for ghost stories and the unexplained coincide with her new day job! She enjoys bicycling, running, reading, cooking, and quenches her Anglophile fix by watching British tv shows. |
The holidays are fast approaching, so it’s time to start brainstorming for gift ideas. If you have someone on your gift-giving list who loves a scary story and is a fan of the variousparanormal television shows, here’s a list of home-run ideas that will sure to elicit a whoop of joy. Extreme Paranormal Investigations by [...]
Thanks to my job, I have been blessed with attending various events. I’ve been to a seance, tried table tipping on a few occasions, spoke to psychics/mystics/tarot readers and walked away in a daze due to the accuracy of what was said, and have gone on a couple ghost investigations. Communicating with the spirit world [...]
Global warming is something that we are very aware of, but have you thought about its impact beyond the planet? A joint project between NASA’s Planetary Science Division and Penn State University have stumbled upon something in their research to find out whether alien contact would hurt or harm us. According to this article, aliens may [...]
I have been remiss in my postings because I have been working hard on upcoming books. Oh, you all have so much spookiness in store for 2012! But I felt I should pass along a tidbit that was in Friday’s Writer’s Almanac. On this day in 1947, the first widely reported UFO sighting occurred. Experienced [...]
Musician Sammy Hagar’s autobiography Red hit the shelves last week, and in the book, he states his fascination with UFOs. This is no passing fancy for Mr. I Can’t Drive 55. In the book, Sammy details a dream that he had where he was in an alien spaceship, and the aliens were tapped into his brain [...]
Even though I’ve been working here for a year and a half, the books that I started working on in the early stages of the game are finally hitting the stores. These are books that I’ve helped develop, but the first book that I acquired won’t be published until March. As I tell people who [...]
Zombies seem to be popping up everywhere. Yes, those undead creatures who hunger for brains or intestines just can’t seem to stay underground. Many large cities host Zombie Walks/Crawls, where folks dress as zombies and parade down the street, or most likely, from bar to bar. The new tv show that everyone is talking about [...]
It’s that time of year when we rack our brains, trying to think of the perfect gift for someone on your list. Books are always my go-to gift. They are portable, affordable, and will provide the recipient with knowledge or escape. I was looking at the list of books in my subject area, and it [...]
We all have favorite books, movies, albums, and songs that you constantly go back to, over and over. It’s something that grabs you every time. It’s a reliable old friend you can always count on. It may give you inspiration, jog old memories, and provide comfort. That’s what touchstones are all about. When glancing at [...]
In August, I wrote about a UFO that was captured on video in St. Paul, Minnesota. In today’s St. Paul paper, it’s revealed that the strange lights that were in the sky were LED lights attached to a kite. This wasn’t the first time he had been flying a lighted kite at night, and had [...]