Posted inSnippets of the Strange
Notes from Horror 101
I just finished teaching a wonderful "Horror & Suspense Writing" course at Seton Hill University. Under my office door last week, I found a slip of paper from an anonymous student, who was writing down the weirdest of the wacky things that came out of my mouth during lectures and discussions. Here's a select few snippets of profound wisdom: On point-of view in horror fiction: "You shouldn't be writing in First Person Singular all the time...instead, try writing in First Monster Singular." Responding to a question about sexual perversion in horror fiction: "What do you mean? Necrophilia is the safest…
Posted inArnzen News
Soon…soon…
Intrepid surfer, you have found the brand new Goreletter blog before it has gone live! The Goreletter is my creative workspace & author's newsletter; the blog is a working sketchbook for that missive and -- upon recently changing to a new webhost -- I have decided to expand it and revise it from the bottom up, to make it more accessible for "web 2.0" readers. Read the All About the Goreletter page for full information on this site and how to subscribe via RSS. This site is in disarray and heavy construction as I customize the design and consider content…
Posted inArnzen News
What A Limited Edition Looks Like
The book collector's website, Awful Books, has posted photographs of my limited edition novella, The Bitchfight, in the Bad Moon Books section of their gallery of collectable books. Here you can see what a great job the publisher did with this exclusive collector's edition, signed, leatherbound in a deep crimson cover, with bonus art and an exclusive CD. The CD is called "Live and Vile," featuring an individualized "backmasked" message unique for each disc, the recording of a live performance (at Zombiefest 2007), and a cluster of remixes, rare demo versions and outtakes from my spoken word CD from Raw…
Posted inData+Errata
gorelets.com is changing hosts
I'm in the process of changing webhosts for the gorelets.com domain -- the ISP I have had for that site since 2001 is going out of business and that means moving to a new host. This shouldn't pose any major problems for visitors, but there may be unexpected site outages in the weeks ahead for gorelets.com and The Goreletter. This particular weblog will still be up and running; but I may take advantage of the new host to make some changes to how I run this blog, as well. In any case, please keep checking back here if you find…