Picking just one favorite author is very hard for me to do. All of my favorite authors are in the horror genre. Stephen King, Dean Koontz, Peter Straub, and the late R. Karl Largent are among my favorites.

In my horror short story writing I come up with the strangest scenarios possible. My creative brain is very strange. I've had stories where a zombie outbreak happens at a Walking Dead convention, a zombie twister, a cat furnado, a mega sinkhole swallowing part of Chicago, cicadas coming to kill peop...

This topic seems a little more relevant since Sharknado 2 just aired this weekend on Syfy channel. I actually find it hard to believe anyone is in danger of sharks falling from the sky. This is coming from a guy who has written two storm related stories dealing with a zombie twister and a cat furnad...

Hello, my name is Derek Ailes and I'm a horror, science fiction, and fantasy writer. I currently have two horror short story anthologies published. Journey Into the Unknown is my first published novel written with my brother, Mark Cusco Ailes, who is a fellow author of 8 published books. My latest a...

I'm a self publish author with two novels available on Amazon. I recently started the online promoting route. Twitter has been one of my best promoting tool. Find fellow authors who write the same genre and follow them. A lot of them will follow you back and even retweet some of your posts to their ...

Hello everybody, My name is Derek Ailes and I am an indie horror & science fiction author. I currently have two horror short story anthologies published. Journey Into the Unknown is my first published novel written with my brother, Mark Cusco Ailes, who is a fellow author of 8 published books. M...