Posted inWeird Sites of the Month

My Favorite Dexter Remakes and Riffs

I'm a big follower of the Showtime TV series Dexter, currently airing its final season. For the past year I've been rescreening the entire run, posting a running series of notes to twitter under hashtag #dexternotes (see the archive in The Nest), and my next personal reading project is to catch up with Lindsay's Dexter book series (the program is a fascinating study in adaptation, as it departs wildly from the books) in preparation for the upcoming release of a new title, ironically called Dexter's Final Cut (releasing end of August 2013 on Kindle and in mid-Sept in hardcover). As…
August 12, 2013Posted inWeird Sites of the Month1 Comment
Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems

Onward Christian Scanners

Imagine if Cronenberg had written and directed The Exorcist. In it, Father Damien Karras is not a psy- chiatrist but a psychic, capable of reading thoughts and moving objects with merely his mind. This superpower, he believes, is the Power of Christ, and it compels him to study the art of exorcism under Father Merrin, who trains him to become a "Scanner" -- a psyche-soldier in the Christian Army, capable of not only sensing a sinner's guilt and truly knowing the nature of their crimes, but also able to circumvent confession altogether and directly absolve them, should they genuinely regret…
August 5, 2013Posted inGorelets: Unpleasant Poems
Posted inAmbulations

Photos from DogCon 2013

Some visuals from Raw Dog Screaming Press' community gathering in Columbus, OH, Aug 2-3, 2013. I did not manage to snap too many, because I was far too busy having a blast. For now, you can find things on the Raw Dog Screaming Press facebook page, and I'm sure more recordings will make their way online soon.                    
August 3, 2013Posted inAmbulations
Posted inData+Errata

Is This Your Card?

Thanks to everyone who entered the Play Dead "Pick a Card" Contest! The rules were simple: guess a card I randomly pulled from the deck. If you guessed the suit or the pip correct, you were entered into a random draw for a chance to win. One lucky person guessed the exact card and won the grand prize! And here are the results... Many congratulations to the following winners! As you can see above, the card drawn was the 6 of clubs. Tracy Mowdy was one of four people who guessed the correct suit, and won the draw for a…
July 21, 2013Posted inData+Errata1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

Play Dead: Now Shipping in Paperback

Long available only in a fine hardcover edition, my second novel, Play Dead, is now officially shipping in paperback to your favorite bookseller. Here are some ways to get your hands on a copy hot off the press (list price, $15.95): from the publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press from amazon.com from barnesandnoble.com from your local bookstore (ask for ISBN 9781935738336) I'll let the back cover of the book below describe the contents...for more information, see gorelets.com/books/
July 15, 2013Posted inArnzen News