Cooperative Ink
Cooperative Ink brings together a broad range of talented individuals from around the world, from graphic artists to fiction and nonfiction writers to poets and experts in book production. Our products incorporate a diverse body of work, from games and books to music and more. Please visit the individual websites of the Cooperative Ink artists for more information. Visit us often as more artists join the cooperative, adding their expertise and creativity to the Cooperative Ink experience. If you're a published author, artist, or musician interested in joining Cooperative Ink, please contact us at fuqua.cs (at) gmail.com. Primary members are listed below. Editing and publishing services are available for those who prefer not to join but desire professional assistance in manuscript preparation and publishing. Please inquire for services offered and pricing.
My name is Mike Suchcicki, recently retired after more than 30 years in the newspaper business (half print, half digital) and I’ve recently put out my shingle as what I call a Multimedia Handyman. My portfolio website is at MikeSooch.com.On the side, my son Joe and I publish “GHOULASH: The Last Game on Earth,” with a home at Ghoulash.com. The game comes in two versions. One is a two-player adventure game played entirely on paper (I created it in 1982 as the world’s smallest role-playing game). The other version is a rip-roaring card game for two to four players. GHOULASH, both the paper game and card game, is set in a world infested with giant, green, deadly monsters called Ghouls. The object is to destroy as many Ghouls as you can.
There’s more to GHOULASH than just the games, however. my partner and son Joe and I have created a mythology around the game, with an exciting cast of characters. In addition to the game itself, I’m working on “GHOULASH: The Last Game on Earth” The Novel. In the adventure, our heroic band of scientists and soldiers search for the secret behind the origin of the Ghouls in hopes of eliminating the threat forever. Sinister forces, however, are determined to stop them at any cost.
We also are in production of a comic book version of the novel, with script by Joe and I and art by Orlando artist Shawn Surface. (That’s his cover for the comic, above right.)
Things are getting exciting!
There’s more to GHOULASH than just the games, however. my partner and son Joe and I have created a mythology around the game, with an exciting cast of characters. In addition to the game itself, I’m working on “GHOULASH: The Last Game on Earth” The Novel. In the adventure, our heroic band of scientists and soldiers search for the secret behind the origin of the Ghouls in hopes of eliminating the threat forever. Sinister forces, however, are determined to stop them at any cost.
We also are in production of a comic book version of the novel, with script by Joe and I and art by Orlando artist Shawn Surface. (That’s his cover for the comic, above right.)
Things are getting exciting!
Rick Kennett is an Australian writer of science fiction, horror, and ghost stories with several published books and many stories in a wide variety of magazines, anthologies, and podcasts. The novella The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea and the novella In Quinn’s Paddock feature his reoccurring character Ernie Pine, the “reluctant ghost-hunter.” Another reoccurring character is genetically engineered Martian space girl Cy De Gerch, who appears in the novel Presumed Deadand the collection Thirty Minutes for New Hell. Some of Kennett’s work is science fiction, but some of his science fiction stories feature ghosts, thus his work crosses genre boundaries that are often kept separate.
The St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers points out that Kennett is “really the one Australian writer to have produced a substantial body of work in the ghost-story field.” While Rob Hood and Terry Dowling have also produced significant quantities of ghost stories, Kennett’s concentration on the genre makes him the leading specialist in Australia.
Reggie Oliver, reviewing 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories, has called Kennett “prodigally inventive” and Peter Worthy of Black Book webzine has called the book “a dazzling continuation of William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.”
For more about Rick and his work, please visit his website.
The St. James Guide to Horror, Ghost & Gothic Writers points out that Kennett is “really the one Australian writer to have produced a substantial body of work in the ghost-story field.” While Rob Hood and Terry Dowling have also produced significant quantities of ghost stories, Kennett’s concentration on the genre makes him the leading specialist in Australia.
Reggie Oliver, reviewing 472 Cheyne Walk: Carnacki, the Untold Stories, has called Kennett “prodigally inventive” and Peter Worthy of Black Book webzine has called the book “a dazzling continuation of William Hope Hodgson’s Carnacki the Ghost-Finder.”
For more about Rick and his work, please visit his website.
C.S. Fuqua is multi-award winning writer, musician, and photographer who has worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine editor, book editor, English tutor, substitute teacher, janitor, respiratory therapy technician, gas station attendant (when such things existed), salesclerk, musician in a Mexican restaurant, writing instructor, and more. After graduating college and a few stints as a daily and weekly newspaper reporter, Chris moved to Hawaii where he served as a magazine writer/photographer, both on-staff and freelance. In the mid-1980s, he turned to full-time freelance writing, specializing initially in nonfiction before transitioning primarily to fiction and poetry.
Chris earned a BA in communication arts/journalism from University of West Florida where he learned to write news articles shortly before 24/7 cable and internet “news” annihilated journalistic ethics, reliability, and professionalism. Chris’s published writing spans a broad spectrum—historical, musical, and social nonfiction, and dark fantasy, literary, and science fiction and poetry—appearing in hundreds of publications worldwide as diverse as Bull Spec, Main Street Rag, Slipstream, Pearl, Bogg, Chiron Review, The Year’s Best Horror Stories, Cemetery Dance, Christian Science Monitor, Honolulu Magazine, Naval History, and The Writer. His published books include Native American Flute ~ A Comprehensive Guide ~ History & Craft, Trust Walk and Rise Up fiction collections, The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, Big Daddy’s Fast-Past Gadget, Muscle Shoals ~ The Hit Capital’s Heyday & Beyond, Cancer, White Trash & Southern ~ Collected Poems, and Notes to My Becca.
Chris is an accomplished musician of several instruments, primarily guitar and Native American flute. He has recently produced the WindPoem series of music albums, featuring Native American flute meditations. WindPoem V ~ Infinite was honored as a finalist in the 2019 New Mexico Music Awards. Other music projects are in production. His music can be licensed through Pond5.com for use in various creative projects. He also crafts Native American flutes played by professional and amateur musicians around the world.
Chris earned a BA in communication arts/journalism from University of West Florida where he learned to write news articles shortly before 24/7 cable and internet “news” annihilated journalistic ethics, reliability, and professionalism. Chris’s published writing spans a broad spectrum—historical, musical, and social nonfiction, and dark fantasy, literary, and science fiction and poetry—appearing in hundreds of publications worldwide as diverse as Bull Spec, Main Street Rag, Slipstream, Pearl, Bogg, Chiron Review, The Year’s Best Horror Stories, Cemetery Dance, Christian Science Monitor, Honolulu Magazine, Naval History, and The Writer. His published books include Native American Flute ~ A Comprehensive Guide ~ History & Craft, Trust Walk and Rise Up fiction collections, The Swing: Poems of Fatherhood, Big Daddy’s Fast-Past Gadget, Muscle Shoals ~ The Hit Capital’s Heyday & Beyond, Cancer, White Trash & Southern ~ Collected Poems, and Notes to My Becca.
Chris is an accomplished musician of several instruments, primarily guitar and Native American flute. He has recently produced the WindPoem series of music albums, featuring Native American flute meditations. WindPoem V ~ Infinite was honored as a finalist in the 2019 New Mexico Music Awards. Other music projects are in production. His music can be licensed through Pond5.com for use in various creative projects. He also crafts Native American flutes played by professional and amateur musicians around the world.