SILVER SKIN FOR SUMMER

The tertiary volume in my Persona series is still thriving. As the days grow longer, why not read Silver Skin to pass the sweltering hours? 

Silver Skin features interior artwork by Aiden Belcher and a Lagoon-ish cover by Michael Youngblood. The alien-oriented edition even holds a bonus short, which links to the second, Persona volume, Green-Fleshed Fiends. 

Silver Skin is a worth-while pursuit, as it's a sequel that stands on its own. It mounts fun yet morbid intrigue and will pull one in whether absorbed indoors, on the patio or at the beach.

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Invest in a copy today!

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1969285044?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

SILVER SKIN: AH, HERE WE GO AGAIN

Ah, here we go again with another know-it-all denouncement. Alas, an uptown snob has accused me of ripping off 28 Years Later. He claims that a portion of my novel, The Persona: Silver Skin, steals from Dr. Kelson's majestic bone temple, since my story features antagonists who devour their victims and then pile their bones about a desolate village.  

I wrote Silver Skin more than a year before 28 Years Later hit theaters. My story's bone "sculptures" don't hold the same significance as Kelson's. Mine are more incidental (mere remnants) than not. 

Something along these lines happened decades ago, when Don Coscarelli was accused of ripping off George Lucas' Jawas for the Tall Man's dwarfs. Coscarelli explained that he had envisioned his "little, brown and low to the ground," Phantasm creatures well before Star Wars was even a thing, and of course, his dwarfs hold quite a different designation than the Jawas. Still, the silly comparison stuck for a substantial spell among the haughty hardheaded. 

There's nothing that I can say to change my accuser's myopic mind, so why even try? I've only chosen to document the matter for historic record and in that sad event that other pantomaths may feel so compelled to promote the ludicrous notion. 

At any rate, feel free to judge for yourself. The Persona: Silver Skin and 28 Years Later can be purchased at   

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1969285044?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_fed_asin_title

and 

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=28+years+later+dvd&ref=nb_sb_noss

MICHAEL HOUSEL'S THE PERSONA, VOL 3: SILVER SKIN, NOW AVAILABLE

My Airship 27, New Pulp novel, The Persona, Vol 3: Silver Skin, has arrived and is far more a science-fiction sequel than those prior. The story also holds its share of horror, inspired by Italian, cannibal movies, continuing the series' flair for scares.

For Silver Skin, the identity-absorbing Persona, aka Mike Mansford, discovers that an alien world has infiltrated Earth in the Amazon. The strange invasion is conducted by an insane, silver-skinned entity named Sentinel Sifer (perhaps the favorite of all my villains).  

Aiden Belcher has fashioned the interior illustrations. Michael Youngblood has rendered the Creature from the Black Lagoon-inspired cover, with Rob Davis having formatted the jungle-based, back cover. The combination creates a pleasing, pulpy aesthetic.

I do hope folks will latch on to this one. It is, in my estimation, an honorable extension to my saga.

FYI: Persona #3 also contains a bonus story entitled "Dark Waves," which picks up where Green-Fleshed Fiends left off, thus tying up loose ends for Mansford's mythology, as well as confirming the saga's alternate-reality relegation.

Order The Persona, Vol 3: Silver Skin at

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=michael+housel+the+persona&ref=nb_sb_noss

THE PERSONA #3: BELCHER & YOUNGBLOOD ON BOARD

My alien-oriented, New Pulp novel, The Persona: Silver Skin, the third in the Michael Mansford series, is moving along. 

As reported in July, Aiden Belcher is composing the interior illustrations. (Below is a nifty, Green Hornet/Kato image he fashioned with his father, Mike W.)

It has since been confirmed (by Airship 27 CEO, Ron Fortier) that Michael Youngblood is doing The Persona #3 cover. Youngblood has supplied many fine covers for Airship 27 and even rendered the cover for my novel, Mark Justice's The Dead Sheriff: Purity. 

I'm honored to have such attentiveness given to my work. More details will be shared as they surface.