Standalone Books from G.T. Swain's 'The History of Logan County'

By David M. Kinchen
Huntingtonnews.net Book Critic

Devotees of West Virginia's colorful history have reason to cheer with the publication of two books that originally appeared in G.T. Swain's 1927 "The History of Logan County."

Publisher Keith Davis of Woodland Press in Chapmanville, WV, has taken two segments from Swain's book and published them as standalone quality paperbacks. Both are available on Amazon.com.

Kyle Lovern, author of Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena, will be appearing on a nationally-known radio talk show with Jeff Rense at www.rense.com, on Friday night, May 29.

The program, to be centered on Appalachian UFO studies, is slated for 8:00 p.m. Pacific Time. The show is based in California.

LOGAN, W.VA - (May 14, 2009) - It's a sign of the times and of a despondent economy.

The Logan Banner, the daily newspaper in Logan, WV, announced that it has dropped its Monday edition. The Banner, owned by Clinton, Connecticut-based Heartland Publications, made the announcement in today's edition of their paper.

By Mannix Porterfield
Register-Herald Reporter

Hardly a day passes that Kyle Lovern isn’t approached by someone with a tale to tell about an Unidentified Flying Object sighting in the hills of West Virginia.

Just recently, while making a bank transaction, a teller inquired, “Are you the guy who wrote the book?”

Indeed, he is that man who wrote the book, “Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters, and Unexplained Phenomena.”

Correction. Two books.

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – Nationally recognized author and editor Michael Knost, from Logan County, WV, has announced that another installment of his popular series, Legends of the Mountain State, is now in the works and will be nationally released this fall, on Oct. 10th and 11th, at the prestigious WV Book Festival, at the Charleston Civic Center.

By F. Keith Davis

LOGAN, W.Va. - The important legacy of our nation’s 35th president, beginning with his bid for his party’s nomination, has a distinct Logan County connection.

Forty-nine years ago, the world’s focus was on Senator John F. Kennedy’s primary campaign in West Virginia.

From the instant he announced his candidacy for the President of the United States, on January 2, 1960, he faced a wide range of unique challenges, but perhaps the greatest obstacle for him to overcome was the negative image of him because of his Roman Catholic faith.

STATUS REPORT: Writers Workshop of Horror is currently in the last phase of production. The work has been edited and is now in the formatting stage.

"This book will be powerful," says Editor Michael Knost. The project is a collection of articles on the craft of writing horror. Each article--written by some very big names--tackles a specific element of the writing craft as it relates to the horror and dark fiction genres.

Participating authors in this volume include:

-- Clive Barker
-- Joe R. Lansdale
-- F. Paul Wilson
-- Ramsey Campbell
-- Thomas F. Monteleone

Kyle Lovern, journalist and Woodland Press author of "Appalachian Case Study: UFO Sightings, Alien Encounters and Unexplained Phenomena," was interviewed on April 25th, 2009, by Dee Andrew, international UFO specialist and host of UFO Paranormal Radio Network, a worldwide Internet radio program. For the program, Lovern discussed the subject of UFOs and alien encounters in the Mountain State.

By Steve Hammons
Transcendent TV & Media

West Virginia journalist Kyle Lovern brings us a straightforward, down-to-earth and amazing picture of UFO encounters and other mysteries from his home state in his new book APPALACHIAN CASE STUDY: SIGHTINGS, ALIEN ENCOUNTERS.

An award-winning writer born and raised in West Virginia, Lovern uses his professional experience from newspaper and radio work in his interviews with other West Virginians about their unusual UFO sightings and other experiences in the Appalachian Mountain region.

LOGAN, W.Va. -- A brand new title, The Blair Mountain War: Battle of the Rednecks, is now available at bookstores across the Mountain State and throughout Appalachia. The title tells the true story of the Blair Mountain War, the largest organized armed uprising in US labor history and led almost directly to the national labor laws currently in effect.