Hey Western Horror Fans, SplatterPunks, Gorehounds, Fellow-Authors, and so forth,

First, I will begin with a general statement. We're living in an interesting time when a comparatively small number of mindlessly ignorant people are misappropriating hateful labels on anything and everything that doesn't line up with their ideologies or whatnot. While this hasn't really hit me all that hard, I will say that I'm intentionally one of those authors who believes in putting warning labels on my stuff in an effort to ward off anyone that might not enjoy my novels, novellas, short stories, anthologies, and so forth. Still, it's bound to happen. There were people who went to see the film "Green Inferno" and walked out offended. The real question is, "What did they think they were going to see in a cannibal film." By the way, it is a brilliant movie. I love it, praise it, and would suggest that if something like that is in any way offensive to you, then it'd be a good idea for you to avoid all of my books like the plague.

It is also my perception that all books written by "B. L. Blankenship" are going to be similar enough that if you're into one of them, you'll likely be into the others. They will merely be different enough that the next book is worth picking up. Also, let's be real about another thing, as an author (who writes fiction to make money), I care what my readers (i.e. people who enjoy my stuff enough to keep paying me money) think. Their voices matter to me because we actually have something foundational to build on. We have a rapport.

A lot of what I have going on can be kept up with via my Facebook author page at "www.facebook.com/GodWalksTheDarkHills". I also have a personal page. The two are very different. If you're on my author page you're just going to hear about things that are relatable to Western Horror and the books I write. Anything on there will somehow jive with all of that. My feeling is that people follow authors like Stephen King or whoever because they enjoy their books, movies, graphic novels, and television series. I don't believe that readers follow them to hear their political opinions, how they should live their lives, and so forth. Really, it only ostracizes an audience. I don't call out other authors and play an "Us VS. Them" kind of game by demonizing others. We're all free to like what we like and have our own opinions, tastes, and values.

My fiction books (while they contain a vast array of history) are fiction, and to be regarded as such. If you somehow feel inspired by them to actually study the American Civil War based upon documentation from the 19th Century before and during it, that's great. However, my aim is to write an entertaining series and not to convince you of some sort of ideology. My fiction books aren't a bait-and-switch where you think it is about one thing and then it turns out to be about another. Furthermore, the books of "B. L. Blankenship" have no redemptive Christian value whatsoever. They're vile and abhorrent. My protagonists have and will tend to be individuals who I see as the underdogs, diminished, or counted out. Generally, these will be Confederate Soldiers, Copperheads, Doughheads, American Indians, and such as who were persecuted by the United States Federal Government during the 1800s. The martyred Abraham Lincoln who through revisionist history has been deified will tend to play the role of the villain. While that is mostly based on real-life sentiments, attributes, and much of his that genuinely cast him that way, with the liberties of fiction I reserve all rights to do anything with him that I deem to be possible within the confines of his character.

WHAT TO EXPECT MORE OF

The series "God Walks The Dark Hills" is central to everything that will go on within the literature of "B. L. Blankenship." It inter-links together my expansive world that has thus far mentioned the following creatures/beings: Chthonic Idiot gods, The Shadow Man, Shadow People, Wendigo, The People on the Otherside of The Mirror, Nephilim, The Great God Pan, The Wandering Jew, Spring-Heeled Jack, The Devil of Leeds, The Pied Piper of Hamelin, Shadow-people, various demons, The King In Yellow, El Siblon, Men as Trees, Lithuanian Werebears, Lilith (demon), Succubi, the Sodden Man, The Tall/Thin/Slender Man - to name a few. Some of these are my creation, while others are public domain within Victorian Horror. Those things borrow only serve to add to the Victorian/Antebellum-era vibe.

...I'm just a very real person. This is me putting myself out there. If you read my books, this is what you're going to get, but then, my readers know that.