Today’s guest post comes to us courtesy of Kenneth Mark Hoover. Kenneth has appeared in the pages of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, Beneath Ceaseless Skies, Strange Horizons, and many other publications and anthologies. His latest novel, Haxan, is a violent dark western published by CZP/HarperCollins in 2014. You can find out more about Mr. Hoover and his work from his blog kennethmarkhoover.me or his website kennethmarkhoover.com.

You can find Mark’s book Haxan, as well as many other great stories in the Weird West Bundle by Storybundle.com.

I started my professional writing career in the SF/F genres. I’ve been working in the western genre for over 7 years, and I must say I often prefer the latter.

There are a lot of historical areas I get to explore in the weird west genre. It gives me the flexibility to write stories that might not find a voice in other…