title: Ink Spots
author:  Brian McDonald 
description: Brian McDonald is one of the world's wisest teachers of the elements that create great storytelling. On this subject, you can trust everything he says -- Charles Johnson (National Book Award-Winner of The Middle Passage) Brian McDonald is an award-winning writer/director/producer who has worked in film, television and comic books for more than 25 years. He has worked as a story consultant for both Pixar and Disney Feature Animation Studios. McDonald is also a teacher of story construction for various institutions and the author of several books: Invisible Ink, The Golden Theme and Freeman. His books are considered required reading for Pixar story interns. McDonald has worked on the Red Badge project for the US Army  a program designed to help returning vets suffering from PTSD learn to write stories in order to help them in their healing.
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  FEAR
  
  
  By Ronald Kelly
  
  
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  A Macabre Ink Production
  
  
  Macabre Ink is an imprint of Crossroad Press
  
  
  Digital Edition published by Crossroad Press
  
  
  Crossroad Digital Edition published 2011
  
  
  Copy-edited by Paulo Monteiro
  
  
  Cover art by Alex McVey
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LICENSE NOTES
  
  
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  Meet the Author
  
  
  ![kelly-portrait-2007](image_46.jpg)
  
  
  
  
  
  Ronald Kelly was born November 20, 1959 in Nashville, Tennessee. He attended
  Pegram Elementary School and Cheatham County Ce