It’s going to ground you in a reality that’s very, very long-lasting.Every summer there is some looming circumstance that causes the organizers of The Austin Chronicle Hot Sauce Contest a certain degree of preshow anxiety. I’m just a normal human being who writes horror. “I want to go home to my books, my family. “Don’t look for me to teach full time,” he said. His goal is to inspire writers and readers. At the end of each workshop, participants will have a published work and, Viergutz hopes, a passion for writing. He is working toward a master’s degree in creative writing and starting two writing workshops: one for teens, which will be free, and one for adults, which will be a paying venture. Part of that business is being both a student and a teacher. I keep my story creation separate from the business aspect.” She works as a counselor at Bluebonnet Trails Community Services in Marble Falls. He and his wife, Melissa Fosler, a reader of horror fiction and a fan, have two children. He is also a reserve police officer for the city of Cottonwood Shores. “The Lord told me this is where he wants me,” Viergutz said of his law enforcement job at Concordia University in Austin. His faith led him to becoming a law enforcement officer, a career path to which he plans to stick, no matter how successful his writing becomes. “I have no qualms about adding Christian themes or having instances where my faith has influenced the story and what the character believes.” “A lot of my characters are outward Christians,” Viergutz continued. Which is where his Christian beliefs come in. For there to be the things we are afraid of, there has to be the opposite. “I realized I was a horror writer at heart,” he said. The Grimdark and Splatterpunk genres are not for Viergutz. “I realized there were so many dark themes in my fantasy that it was leaning toward dark fantasy, it was becoming Grimdark.” “I wanted to write a big, epic tome,” he said. He was also working as a police officer in Bertram. At the time, he owned and operated 280 Physic, a fitness business in Marble Falls. The “Demonic Compendium” series began as one fantasy book he wrote to prove to himself he could do it. “Otherworld Archives” is not the first series Viergutz published. “Old Scratch” is the fourth and latest book in the author’s first horror series. In his series “Otherworld Archives,” the evil lurks in a church in a small town harboring even more secrets. “Horror is the only genre dedicated to a single feeling,” he said. He often cites as an inspiration Stephen King, an author who scared him so badly he blacked out an entire chapter in “Salem’s Lot” with a Sharpie because of how reading it made him feel. A good horror writer creates a sense of dread in you where you don’t want to read the next page, but you know you have to.”Ī Viergutz character could be anyone, an “Average Joe,” faced with horror arising from everyday life. “A good horror writer does not try to create the jump scare. “The reason horror stories are so incredible is that they create a feeling in you that sticks with you - it never leaves,” Viergutz said. He writes what he calls “slow burns” that capture a reader’s imagination and hold on. His books, which receive consistent four-out-of-five-star ratings across the different platforms, are based on reality, he said. “Take a chance on me,” he advertises through email marketing and Facebook ads. “Young adult romance readers are all over Instagram and TikTok, but horror tends to be older readers,” Viergutz said. He’s also somewhat old school in that he communicates with readers by email. He’s a author and has an impressive up-market website at. Viergutz has a supportive fan following with which he connects digitally, selling on distribution sites such as Amazon and Barnes & Noble. They know what they like and they know what to look for.” “You know that saying, ‘Don’t judge a book by its cover?’” he said. To achieve that quality, he hires editors, illustrators, beta readers, and cover artists. It has to look the same, be the same quality.” “My stuff has to stand up next to what everybody else is publishing. “Self-publishing now is not what it used to be,” Viergutz said. Like all of his other books, it was self-published, giving him total control over content, cover, and marketing. His 16th book, the fourth in one of several series he writes, was released in October. He is also a successful horror writer who lives in Burnet. David Viergutz is a police officer, businessman, student, teacher, husband, father, and Methodist.
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