Hey Western Horror Fans, Splatter Punks, Gorehounds, Readers, Fellow Authors, and everyone else checking out my blog,

It is always great to hear from readers. Consistently, I warn people before they buy my books how monstrously graphically violent they are. Honestly, it's almost like I'm trying to talk them out of it. Subsequently, my sales continue to rise as people who can handle abject violence continue to find out about me from their friends. To be clear, it's visceral. When I first began writing fiction, I did it with the intention to write the most violent books ever penned. Often, I'm told that I have succeeded. It has been said that like Jack Ketchum, my stories make Stephen King's look like a Children's Disney Movie from days gone by. It's no surprise that some readers have often wondered what inspires me.

To be frank, I used to be highly interested in working in law enforcement and thereby have watched a ton of true crime documentaries. I've studied psychology to some end, theology, demonology, history, cults, the occult, and religion collectively to a degree that most would call heavy. Before writing books, I wrote songs, and before writing songs, I wrote poems. That speaks of any fluidity in my writing. That aside, I'm a graphic artist, and thereby a highly visual person. Also, I'm been active in ministerial and charity work for most of my life, so I also have a huge sense of empathy, which is a paramount attribution in writing well.

Largely, a lot of my concept of evil is derived from the Bible. Scripture says, "Such are the ways of an adulterous woman, she eats wipes her mouth, and says, I've done nothing wrong." That is what being the full-blown bad guy is; a lack of remorse. When you do wrong and feel conviction for it - you're not necessarily bad; you're conflicted. You're struggling. It's very human. Within Judeo-Christian theology, you're merely a sinner in need of a savior. Someone who has no remorse has grieved the Holy Spirit (like searing their conscience with a hot iron) until you're turned over to a reprobate mind. Within modern criminology, Ted Bundy claimed to be such. Within the Bible, the valley of Sodom & Gomorrah were damned to that fate specifically for the stated reason that their narcissistic, self-indulgent, uberwealthy society was extraordinarily cruel to the poor.

Evil doesn't back off when you close your eyes or turn away. Evil doesn't hold your hand. Often, true evil masquerades itself as something else. That is my mindset when I write. I think of films that get it right. Movies like "I Spit On Your Grave", "My Mother's Eyes", and so forth where the director doesn't hold your hand but instead twists the knife are the embodiment of what shock & horror should be. It should be traumatizing. Horror should make you check the backseat, leave you wondering what is standing in the shadows, hate spaces between stairs and cracked doorways.

Writing a series like "God Walks The Dark Hills" is challenging. The first dual novel was so outrageously violent that it created quite the challenge when I sat down to write the third book. Honestly, that is a struggle I'll contend with until Book VI is complete. Thank you again to all of my readers for all of your wonderful messages of how greatly you've enjoyed the books that I've toiled over for so long. Thank you for spreading the word to other like-minded horror fans.

It is not the intention for any books written under B. L. Blankenship to have any redemptive Christian value. They're all vile and abhorrent. Their sole purpose is purely for entertainment.