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Additional studies in classical mythology, feminism, fairy tales, and Mexican/Latin American folklore.</p><p><strong>Life-changing movie:</strong>&nbsp; The Thing (1982)<br /><strong>Freakiest monsters from my childhood:</strong> El Cucuy, Eddie Quist from The Howling (1981), and Katahdin from Prophecy (1979)</p><p><strong>My hero effects guy</strong>: Rob Bottin<br /><strong>Favorite band:</strong> Skinny Puppy</p><p>I am a writer, first and foremost, not published as yet, but I haven't put my stuff out there really, so that's alright.&nbsp; Soon enough.&nbsp; Working towards my MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Texas-Austin.&nbsp; To pay the bills and for the love of it, I am also an Internet Marketing Strategist providing internet marketing, reputation management and design services to horror and alt culture professionals via <a title="Rough Ride Creations" href="http://www.roughridecreations.com" target="_blank">Rough Ride Creations</a>.</p><p>As a lifelong fan of all things freaky, dark, weird, monstrous, liminal, offbeat and gory, I noticed a disturbing trend in&nbsp;web design&nbsp;years ago.&nbsp; A certain design aesthetic took hold in the late 90s for horror design and has become an industry standard.&nbsp; I still see full Flash sites with splashpages, animated gifs,&nbsp;tables, frames,&nbsp;and color schemes and design themes that never left 1997 being used for modern horror, dark art and sci-fi designs.&nbsp; And, while some newer designs are artistically masterful, when it comes to usability, accessibility&nbsp;or the search engines, these sites are&nbsp;all looks, and no substance.</p><p>So, after years of working in the mainstream, I decided to&nbsp;offer the awesome things that I&nbsp;did for&nbsp;small businesses,&nbsp;e-commerce, nonprofit, industrial and commercial clients to dark artists, writers, models, tattoo/body mod studios, small to midsize businesses and other professionals working in speculative fiction, dark art, and horror entertainment. People who deserve not only a website that is designed with imagination and style, but that is also an integral part of an entire marketing machine.&nbsp; Rough Ride Creations: Gore without borders!</p>