Today we’re excited to welcome Valerie Nieman to Ink Heist with a guest post titled “Building a Detective”. Valerie talks about her experience working the “cops and courts” beat as a reporter […]
Building a Detective by Valerie Nieman
Guest Post: Mike Thorn’s 100 Favorite Books of All Time
Every book I’ve written has been a stew of influences: historical and contemporary novels, short stories, poetry, philosophy, biography, and more. I’ve drawn extensively on other texts’ narrative traditions and plot elements, […]
Weird Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Research by Nicholas Kaufmann
Today we’re excited to welcome Nicholas Kaufmann to Ink Heist with a guest post titled “Weird Science or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Research”. Nicholas talks about how he […]
The Dead Breathe: Confronting Our Monsters by Chris DiLeo
Today we’re excited to welcome Chris DiLeo back to Ink Heist with a guest post titled “The Dead Breathe: Confronting Our Monsters”. Chris talks about the deeply personal losses of loved ones […]
The Abandoned “Asylum” As Horror Setting by Mark Matthews
The Abandoned “Asylum” As Horror Setting By Mark Matthews In the underground tunnels below Northville Psychiatric Hospital, the mood swings of the mentally ill are manipulated by a roque psychiatrist, transforming them […]
Voices of Horror by Tim Waggoner
Voices of Horror By Tim Waggoner One of the first – and perhaps most important – choices that authors have to make about our stories is which viewpoint to use: first, second, […]
Drunk Gods in Dying Towns by Brian Fatah Steele
Today we are excited to welcome Brian Fatah Steele to Ink Heist today with a guest post titled “Drunk Gods in Dying Towns”. The post talks about the inspiration and influences that […]
There’s No Such Thing as Monsters by Ray Garton
I’m not going to get in the way of the great Ray Garton too much here, except to say, yeah, it’s the great Ray Garton, read it. But also to tell you […]
Cody T Luff, Author of “Ration”, on Storytelling
I am fascinated by the infectious quality of stories. Their ability to pass from one person to another. I love how quickly a story mutates in the telling, taking on the characteristics […]
From War to Pen, Learning to Live with PTSD
From War to Pen, Learning to Live with PTSD An Essay by Thomas S Flowers There’s this quote from Michael Herr in his book, Dispatches, that struck a chord with me some […]
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