From staff reports
Mark Anderson is a Meridianite who was born in a small coal-mining town called Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania.
He is scheduled to hold a book signing for his re-released first book, "The Homza's Son," at the Meridian-Lauderdale County Public Library on Saturday from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. Part of the sales of his book will be donated to the library.
Anderson says he lived in a house that was haunted, and that enhanced his interest in the supernatural.
"In 1978, I joined the Air Force and was stationed in England, where I started researching the supernatural. The Britons had plenty of spiritual churches in which to learn," he said.
Comic books and Stephen King novels soon sparked Anderson's imagination even more. He spent his spare time writing his first book, "The Homza's Son."
"I published that book in 1982 and now I will be re-releasing it," he said. "Since my first book I wrote two sequels but had not published them. I also wrote a couple of children's short stories that I had not published."
Here is the synopsis for "The Homza's Son" posted on Anderson's Web site:
This story takes place in a small town called Wilkes-Barre in Pennsylvania. A young boy growing up with supernatural powers, but he does not know it. On the other end of the spectrum is an unseen force, which is trying to stop him from growing up and stop him from getting his powers and controlling them.
Throughout Wayne Homza growing up he comes close to death. He also gets put into situations where he is forced to get angry with people so that he can cause harm to them telekinetically. As he learns to harm people he also learns to heal people, the more he uses his powers the stronger they get, just like exercising a muscle. All of this is to prepare him for a battle with the strongest evil person on earth. This story will come to a cataclysmic conclusion when both forces meet and the battle begins.
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