Arnzstigation Days end January 31st

I am honored by this heart-warmingly weird tribute that surprisingly erupted as a meme over on Facebook yesterday. Raw Dog Screaming Press is sponsoring a fun creative celebration called "Arnzstigation Days" in support of our successful funding of The Fridge of the Damned (for which all backers receive a copy of my upcoming story idea lighter fluid, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side). It's basically a creative writing challenge and a call for memories of weirdness we may have shared. If anything from my classes, workshops or posts in the Instigation department of this website (or the prompts in…

Dog Star’s New Title: Resnick’s “Miracle”

Happy to see the expansion of Dog Star Books -- a hot new SF line put out by one of my longstanding publishers, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and edited by my former co-editor from Many Genres), Heidi Ruby Miller. They've just released the cover of a new book by the prolific SF author, Mike Resnick: SUMMARY: The best way to learn about an alien species is not only to live among them, but to become them in both physical form and function, but could a human really learn to think like an alien, and at what cost to his humanity?…

Other Damned Refrigerators

[In honor of our Kickstarter campaign for The Fridge of the Damned...(remember: the chance to pledge and receive great rewards ends Feb 1st!)] The Fridge Peep Show http://thefridgepeepshow.wordpress.com/ Freezer Friday by Charlie Layton http://freezerfriday.tumblr.com/ Abandoned Appliances Flickr Group http://www.flickr.com/groups/1207990@N24/pool/ Fridge Monster by Daywalt Fear Factory http://youtu.be/g8xHq3S6pgM The Undying Horror of the Refrigerator http://www.fright.com/edge/UndyingHorrorRefrigerator.htm

Upcoming Cons and Signings in 2013

World Horror Convention & Bram Stoker Award Weekend June 13-16, 2013 | New Orleans, LA Arnzen has TENTATIVE plans to attend. http://www.stokers2013.org/ "In Your Write Mind" Book Signing June 29, 2013 | Greensburg, PA PLAY DEAD reissue release date! Arnzen will sign books at the "In Your Write Mind" workshop at Seton Hill University's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction Alumni book signing event, anticipated June 29th, 2013 at 7pm. http://inyourwritemind.setonhill.edu/ "Confluence" Convention July 19-21, 2013 | Pittsburgh, PA Arnzen will be attending Confluence: The 25th Annual Literary Sci-Fi Convention in Pittsburgh, PA (Airport Holiday Inn) July 19th - 21st, 2013.…