GHOST RADIO Nominated for “Black Quill” Award!

Ghost Radio has been nominated for Dark Scribe Magazine’s second annual “Black Quill Award” in the category “dark genre novel of the year.”  Here is the list of nominees in that category:

• Duma Key by Stephen King (Scribner)
• Generation Dead by Daniel Waters (Hyperion)
• Ghost Radio by Leopoldo Gout (William Morrow)
• Leather Maiden by Joe R. Landsdale (Knopf)
• The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (HarperCollins)
• The Price by Alexandra Sokoloff (St. Martin’s Press)
• We Disappear by Scott Heim (Harper Perennial)

Some pretty nice company there!

Ghost Radio was also nominated for “best dark genre book trailer.”  Here are those nominees:

• Daemon / Production by Yossi Sasson (Author: Harry Shannon)
• Day by Day Armageddon / Production by Ivan Simoncini (Author: JL Bourne)
• Duma Key / Production by Scribner (Author: Stephen King)
• Ghost Radio (Trailer 1) / Production by William Morrow (Author: Leopoldo Gout)
• Sweetheart / Production by Circle of Seven (Author: Chelsea Cain)
• The Price / Production by Circle of Seven Productions (Author: Alexandra Sokoloff)

And here’s that trailer:

You can read more about the contest here.

Winners will be announced Monday, February 2nd, 2009.

And if you haven’t already:  Order a copy of GHOST RADIO today! And take a terrifying trip into the paranormal.

Danny Devito’s Christmas Gift

Danny Devito gets into the Christmas “Spirit”

By Rick Bentley, McClatchy Newspapers, December 8, 2008

Apparently, celebrities are just like everyone else when it comes to holiday shopping. They have the same trouble coming up with the right gifts.

At least that’s what Danny DeVito says.

The star of television and film figured out a way to get around the holiday gift-buying problem this year. He agreed to be part of the NBC animated special “Little Spirit: Christmas in New York.”

DeVito joins Lucy Liu, Freddy Rodriguez, Brian Williams and Brenda Song as the voice talents for the holiday show.

DeVito says during a telephone interview that his shopping habit has always been to get the gifts last for the person who means the most to him. So when co-director and story creator Leopoldo Gout contacted him about being part of a holiday television special, he knew he had found the right present.

“I immediately responded. My children are grown. They’re in their 20s now. But I do have an extended family of young kids. This is a Christmas present to them,” DeVito says.

Read the rest of the article here.

Long Island Family Haunted by “Christmas Spirit”

A Long Island family is haunted by a ghost every year during the Christmas season.  They believe it’s the ghost of the grandfather of a family that lived in the house forty years ago:

the new family started to notice odd activities around the home. It would always seem to be noticed the most around the holidays. The family would be sitting in the dinning room eating when they would hear the front door open and someone walk up the stair case to the second floor. The family would call out to see who was there without any reply. They would then search the house to find it empty but for the family sitting at the table.

The family would hear someone slamming doors or footsteps overhead as they sat in the family room of someone walking around on the second floor. They would search only to always find an empty house. The worst of it all was the smell of the burning pipe. Each time this would occur the house would fill with the smell of a freshly lit pipe being smoked. At times the odor of the pipe would be so overpowering the family needed to open windows and doors. This ghost has visited this family now every year for the past 40 years.

Read the rest of the article here.

Have you ever had ghost experiences connected with the holiday season?  Share you stories in the comments section below.