Category: Interviews

  • Art is subjective Art is real Ugly can be art Beauty can be art Art is observed Art is created Art moves Art stands still All art does one thing Simultaneously with all art And stands alone Art feels And makes you feel

  • Flowers in the garden fall one by one they once bloomed so beautifully in the early morning sun filling the air with lovely scented perfume a marvel to see rich landscapes of red and pink  return to the place  of which they belong  now only in my heart  can I hear their song © 2025…

  • Writing is a lot like baking a cake. First you have the recipe and you had to gather the ingredients. Then you need to mix everything together in the right proportions, prepare the baking dish, and heat up the oven. Then you need to bake the cake and prepare the icing. After the cake is…

  • I took this photo from the side of the road. Our truck completely shut off and would not turn on. Turns out it needed an alternator and new battery. While I was waiting, I saw this batch of flowers and thought how nice they looked, so I took a photo. This reminds me of how…

  • Hello and welcome! I have been seeing a lot of AI content and covers. I’m not interested in AI content. It’s not art and it’s not a book. It’s content. I wish we could turn off all AI content as a preference. Oh yeah, we can. We can simply choose not to engage with it…

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  • When once you flew high Now your wings are broken Hush now And sleep well Do not cry for loss There is no more pain Because today is no more And tomorrow will never be By Adam Messer

  • We recently interviewed Mike West and we are excited to share with you an exclusive behind the scenes look at I saw Mothman song. Coming soon!

  • Congratulations to the 2026 The Pulp Factory Awards winners! “The Windy City Pulp & Paper Show was this past weekend in Chicago and we want to congratulate all the winners of the Pulp Factory Awards for the Best of 2025 in fiction and art!” – Ron Fortier. The Pulp Factory is a group of Pulp…

  • One of my favorite superheroes is Space Ghost. I used to love watching the Space Ghost show and came across this online. Who are your favorites?

  • Flow By Adam Messer © 2026 Adam Messer. All rights reserved When the world melt away And it is you Sitting with pen in hand Writing The page becomes alive As the story begins to Flow

  • I saw this fake bill today while shopping for groceries. I didn’t touch it, but I took a picture because I have seen this sort of thing online, but never in person. The posts I have seen online warn of the scam, potentially having been contaminated with illegal and dangerous chemicals. Ultimately a harmful scam.…

  • By Adam Messer “You start writing with an idea in your head and very often you find that where you end up isn’t where you thought you were going.” – John L. French.

  • The Story By Adam Messer Once upon a time, in a far away land, lived a simple young man who dreamt of traveling the world and painting what he saw along the way. How many stories start with humble beginnings? “Give ‘em what they want and give it to ‘em real good!” – Dr. David…

  • Yesterday I came across a Paid review group online. Third party group paying for reviews left on the major market platform. As an author and publisher, I had heard of people paying for reviews, but I had never seen it in the wild. First of all, I’m not going to post the name of the…

  • By Adam Messer “In my opinion, the most memorable characters, whether good or bad, are those who feel real enough that readers can imagine them existing beyond the pages of the book.” – Barbara Mostella-Oliver.

  • Created by humans is more than a logo. It is our promise to you that we will always support art and creativity for humans by humans. Human creativity isn’t going anywhere, but we want to ensure our readers what we publish is created, edited, and published by human beings. Sure we use technology; the logo…

  • By Adam Messer “If you can’t imagine the character as someone that you could meet out in real life then they wouldn’t be believable on the page.” – G.A. Sallee.

  • With the ever growing use of technology, we here at Valhalla Books do not and will not use AI in any of our books. There is a lot of buzz around with “authors” using AI to create and publish books. One publisher just pulled a book having found significant AI content in the book. AI…

  • I saw this nice hardback copy of The Martian Chronicles by Ray Bradbury today. If you’ve never read it before, it is a good read. Ray Bradbury’s stories offer the human experience in a powerful delivery.