Introducing Our Newest Author: Butch Carver!

We have another author joining the MW Press team!

Butch Carver is a thriller and horror writer who spent a majority of his life in the Alaskan Bush before returning to the Continental US. Rather than write about his experiences in the Great Outdoors, Butch prefers to tap into the nightmares that have often plagued him throughout his life. Not quite an insomniac, Butch drinks copious amounts of coffee to keep himself awake during the long nights when his nightmares seem most real. These “black dreams” are what have allowed Butch to write terrifying stories like Semblance, which will be released in July 2025.

From Semblance: “Darkness doesn’t live within men’s hearts, but in their minds… Renowned psychiatrist Dr. Dennis Allen Welbing has a secret: he can see into the minds of his schizophrenic patients. By astrally projecting into their heads, Dr. Welbing can look through their memories to find the root of their trauma and remove their hallucinations. At least, he could. After his last patient died mid-projection, Dennis lost his abilities. And since then, his sense of reality has fractured. Plagued by the monsters of his nightmares, Dr. Welbing now has to find an exit—but the way out might be a doorway deeper in.”

Butch learned his craft from an early age, keeping journals of his experiences during his childhood in Wyoming and adulthood in Alaska. Books, of course, have also helped him to develop his own style. Butch’s inspirations for writing include Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and H. P. Lovecraft, though he has always considered his inspiration for life to be Ernest Hemingway.