Lou Rera's first novel SIGN, was published by Netherworld Books in the UK for worldwide distribution in June 2014. SIGN is a supernatural thriller of deception and murder. In 2008, Lou Rera published a collection of flash fiction stories titled, There are no doors on a cocoon. His flash fiction has been published in ArtVoice Magazine, online in The Writer's Eye and in Twisted Dreams. Lou is writing his second novel, THE TIN MASK.Lou Rera is an Associate Professor in Communication at SUNY Buffalo State, Buffalo, New York. He is a member of the Horror Writers Association, Just Buffalo Literary Center, and Short Fiction Writers Guild.