The Man Behind The Brand - In The Closet    by Doug Gelbert
Price: $0.99 USD. 7540 words. Published on November 29, 2010. .
Open a copy of the Information Please Almanac and turn to the chapter on famous people. 4000 names and you won't know hardly any. But what about names everyone knows? Pillsbury, Kellogg, Gerber. Nowhere to be found. How many names are more famous than Howard Johnson or Oscar Mayer? But who were these folks? Let’s take a look at the men behind the names we see when we open our closets.

Prometheus Fit To Be Tied    by Paul Hawkins
Price: Free! 89830 words. Published on February 7, 2011. .
It's 1939, the USA is on the eve of leaving its sleepy childhood behind forever, and the world's last renaissance man has dragged his dissipated self back home to confront the tinpot gods who would rise to power by giving farmers alternating current. "Hawkins has written a big story for a big era, a comic requiem for the lost potential of the American Century."

“I Thought Titanic Was Just A Movie” - 250 Stories of Forgotten People Behind Our Brand Names    by Doug Gelbert
Price: $5.00 USD. 132250 words. Published on April 26, 2012. .
Howard Johnson, Milton Bradley, Oscar Mayer, Russell Stover, John Deere. Real people all. Here are the stories of 250 men and women whose products became household names. Many are inspiring, some are dispiriting (David Buick, raise your hand) but may none be forgotten.