Is this guy nuts? Bigfoot on local Endangered Species list? 



I sometimes feel like an endangered species. And Errl knows what that feels like. An outcast, unloved, misunderstood.

Unread.

I'm thrilled to announce Red Herrings, my new mystery novel, is ready for publication, written from my personal experience with paranoid schizophrenia and an interest in the bizarre.

This new schizophrenic mystery is written with the hero's voice by Kenna McKinnon, author of poetry, short stories, a memoir, a children's chapter book, and two YA novels.

Annie finds new beauty and true love in this engaging story of a young woman coming of age, and solving a heinous crime as well.






Published by father and daughter team at Authors for a Cause, Red Herrings follows my fantasy/sci-fi collection of short stories (Short Circuit and Other Geek Stories) written in memory of my son. All proceeds from Short Circuit go to the Edmonton Humane Society.

Authors for a Cause is a charitable publisher which supports children's literacy and pets.

My new book of short stories is on Amazon right now and I believe it's available on Amazon Prime.

I'm looking for reviews for Short Circuit and Other Geek Stories. I'll send you a free eBook in exchange for a fair and honest review on Amazon.



This book was written in honor and memory of my son, who passed away two years ago this September on the last day of summer 2012.

I will give any of my own proceeds from the sale of this book to the Humane Society of Edmonton, a charity close to Steve's heart. It was published through Authors for a Cause, which funds literacy for children with their share.

If you like sci-fi, fantasy with a twist and a bit of humor, and a bit of everything else thrown in for good measure, you'll love this book of short stories.

Let's help make it a best seller! I'll keep you posted on Twitter and Facebook as to the progress of Short Circuit.

Right now it stands at 735,442 paid in Amazon. It's not available yet in print.

If I get enough interest in the eBook I'll publish this fantastic book of tales in print.

I'll keep you all appraised.

Eileen Schuh at home

I love skipping out of the ordinary, into realms of ‘what-if’ and ‘if only’, both as a reader and a writer. As odd as it may seem, there are lessons to be learned from realities that are no more than mere imaginings and sometimes those lessons are easier learned from a well-told story than from the pulpit. The best stories, to me, are those that are thought-provoking as well as entertaining.

If it’s at all  possible to learn from mistakes before they occur, SciFi is one of the best tools. Although, judging from our current privacy issues, we perhaps didn’t learn all that we ought to have from George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four, here’s hoping at least some of the messages in my latest release, DISPASSIONATE LIES, get through.

Ladesque is an ordinary woman in a life that is so bland at the start of that novella, boredom is driving her stir crazy. Although the year is 2035, little about her world is different than ours, because a global economic crisis and the collapse of the internet ground technical progress to a stop decades earlier. Her generation of females is different, though,  having been born sterile and without libido. Although to some, that situation is ghastly, to her it is also quite ordinary.

This near-future setting is the back drop against which Ladesque must learn and grow and hopefully take the reader along with her.

If cyber-snooping abilities such as Snowden’s, and privacy invasions such as Wikileaks’, or cyberattacks such as the recent eBay fiasco keep escalating...what will we do? If banks and governments and militaries get hacked, will it cause a massive global financial collapse...or has that already happened?

What will our world be like if fertility rates keep decreasing? If hormones in our environment keep increasing? If loss of libido continues to be an acceptable, common pharmaceutical side-effect?  If...

Do we care? Should we care? Should we act now to prevent drastic results or simply prepare for the day when a generation of sexless females exist in a world struggling to recover from The Great Crash of 2015?

Such weighty contemplations will not likely intrude into your enjoyment of the novella, however.  Such musings will come after the story ends. After Ladesque solves the code, uncovers her secret past, experiences sexuality, takes part in a top-secret FBI project...falls in love.

After all that, you will wonder if we ought to be worrying less about who has nuclear capabilities and worry more about other threats--like who possesses the technology to develop the quantum computer. Because in the near future, that is where unfathomable power will lie.

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Tribune Chronicle reports "The Genoskwa Fest" June 13 - 15, 2014.

Including a 5K race through Leetonia called "Are You Chasing Bigfoot or is Bigfoot Chasing YOU!!", a fair with concession food, vendors, games, crafts, etc.

Dr. Jeffrey Meldrum, an expert on Bigfoot, will speak at the Leetonia High School at 1:00 p.m. on June 14 and at a brunch on June 15.

Tickle your Bigfoot at a dance on the evening of June 14.

On June 15 there'll be a Bigfoot hunt and campfire stories at the coke ovens, where there'll be "a tour of the coke ovens in search of Bigfoot evidence."

The town will provide busing to the venues from the high school.

Proceeds will go to help fund the historic coke ovens in the area.

Coke ovens burned the impurities off coal around 1860 in Cherry Valley, Ohio, resulting in a substance called coke. "A glimpse of Ohio's past."

And Bigfoot -- a glimpse of Leetonia NOW?


Bigfoot bounty? What do YOU think about that? Bigfoot is a gentle giant, he's never hurt anyone, what about the bounty? Read about Errl and see things from his perspective...running for his life!

Android lovers don't despair, my app is here!

Get the new Kenna McKinnon Author app now by clicking on the button to the top left or the link below. Kenna has joined the smartphone crowd! Yo ho ho check it out!