Ray Van Horn, Jr. has 18 combined years in business, journalism and research as an office professional and published writer and interviewer. He has conducted more than 300 interviews with film, music, literature and visual arts personalities. A few key names are Rob Zombie, Alice Cooper, Glenn Danzig, Bruce Campbell, Mick Garris, Adam Green, Nina Blackwood, Marky Ramone, Serj Tankian, Roxana Shirazi, Jerry Casale of Devo and many others. He is also a concert photographer.
Ray’s blogsite, The Metal Minute, won an award of merit from Metal Hammer magazine in 2009. Ray created and wrote original superhero fiction for Cyber Age Adventures in 1999 and five of those stories were compiled in the trade paperback Playing Solitaire. He is the winner of Quantum Muse’s fiction contest for the same year and has been featured at open mike events in his native state of Maryland.
Ray is a former NHL game analyst for The Hockey Nut and has freelanced his writing and photography for Metromix, an affiliate of The Baltimore Sun, The Northern News and The Emmitsburg Dispatch. Ray recently finished his second novel, “Saved by Zero” and is marketing it to agents and publishers. He has begun my third novel and has a poetry chapbook coming out later this summer through Boulder Street Press called Goodbye, Excellent.
“Everybody’s too jaded and too stupid to be pissed off about what people are doing to them in government. People are being reamed, but they don’t care! They’re too busy with their apps!”
With buffed-up supporting vocals from the Jordanaires and deeper low-end bass than has previously been released, the Elvis is Back! Legacy Edition sparkles at every turn and better yet, it serves as reminder that Elvis Presley was much more than a country boy with animal magnetism and one of the best back-up bands of his time.