In 1966, a young hippie named Sean Delaney arrived in New York City and checked into the YMCA with only $2.98 in his pocket. Sean became one of the top ten record producers in the music industry, and was in part responsible for signing a little known band to their first six-month contract. The band was KISS, and the rest became history that has forgotten his presence. After years of exile, Sean Delaney, the self-proclaimed creator of theatrical KISS, comes forth thirty years after KISS first exploded onto the music scene and changed the face of rock & roll forever, to share his version of the story. HELLBO is Sean Delaney's journey; a journey versed in the trials of lucid mayhem that epitomized a radical lifestyle, and spanned over a broad spectrum of events that led to the creation of KISS. Through revelations of a fractured upbringing, gut wrenching hardships, and big dreams fulfilled, then lost in the irony of success; he survived it all and became the man that nurtured an uncontrollable rock & roll monster. HELLBOX tells of formidable betrayals and gives unique insight into a secret alliance that was quite possibly a conspiracy that corrupted the partnerships of the powers that originally guided KISS to superstardom. This is a story that dares to defy the myths that have been passed off as popularized truths in the history of the legendary band. Silenced no longer, the first Director of Rock & Roll delivers previously untold tales from behind the mystical veil that shrouds KISS, painting a fascinating and candid portrait that depicts the band's creation while it follows the life of Sean Delaney, one of the most enigmatic, and best forgotten legendary songwriters and record producers ever to work in the music industry. Littered with intimate trysts, explicit scenes from his own unabashed lifestyle and destructive relationships, Sean's story is an exposition for KISS fans and connoisseurs of biographies alike. HELLBOX chronicles the soul of a rebellious young man with a career filled with achievements. He spent the better part of his life searching for a sense of home, and an ideal relationship. The story of Sean Delaney mends damaging and apocryphal untruths that he claims have been published over the years for the consumption of devoted KISS fans. It finally gives voice to a collection of facts that have never been accounted for, and rewrites an erased volume of missing history, which was the void responsible for sending Sean into his self-imposed exile from the music industry for nearly fifteen years. Sean exposes his roller coaster ride through life, a life that traveled through a band called KISS. Sean's riveting account of a tragedy, marred by deception, proposes a theory that conspiracy may have rocked the behind the scenes business behind the business that became the most lucrative rock & roll dynasty in the history of music. Sean gives an uncustomary keen look into his past, and delves into the history of KISS, a history that has forgotten his presence. Now let history reflect that Sean Delaney was there. This is Sean Delaney's HELLBOX - his last and only authorized testament...
Bryan J. Kinnaird is an award-winning screenwriter and author/creator of the popular sci-fi graphic novel series THE VILLIKON CHRONICLES. Bryan began his career as a staff writer for morning radio and later drafted marketing scripts for sales companies before professionally writing and producing corporate training programs for his own video productions company. He has also written and produced several documentary films, including "Behind The Scenes of Destructive Metal and Comic Book Mayhem."
In 1997, Bryan focused primarily on writing for the big screen. His most ambitious project was a motion picture screenplay set against the backdrop of a militarized universe plagued by maniacal villains and vampirical creatures. THE VILLIKON CHRONICLES became an award-winning modernized myth. The story transcended cultural and international boundaries, and was adapted into a graphic novel series. Bryan’s adaptation was dubbed as incredibly surreal, and the staunchest of critics revered it as an intelligent epic worthy of master storytellers. One critic even likened it to "the sort of tale that makes the Ten Commandments look like a child´s read."
Bryan continues to write in a variety of mediums, and occasionally appears at convention signings and plans for an eventual film franchise based on his sci-fi series. HELLBOX is a project planned as something else but took a roundabout way to becoming a book. Based on a film treatment drafted during the final year of Sean Delaney’s life, Sean Delaney enlisted Bryan to tell the only authorized story of his deeply rooted and much troubled relationship with the greatest manufactured rock and roll band of all time, KISS.
In much the same fashion as he wrote VILLIKON CHRONICLES for film before comics, Bryan began penning a screen adaptation (derived from interviews with Sean) titled HELLBOX. The book is a biographical story inspired by Sean Delaney’s claims that he had a hand in founding and co-creating the theatrics behind the legendary rock band KISS.
