Winner of the Goodreads Gorelets Giveaway Announced

Congratulations to Samantha Mostek -- winner of my Friday the 13th giveaway of The Gorelets Omnibus on the website for booklovers, GoodReads.com. [You can follow my profile here: http://www.goodreads.com/MichaelAArnzen ]. Samantha will be receiving a signed paperback copy as well as one of the rare broadsides I produced to celebrate the book launch. Didn't win? Sad? Well, contests for all sorts of things always appear in The Goreletter. Subscribe today! The Goreletter WILL run a contest for a few of the remaining broadsides I have on hand, so come join the mad party and stay tuned with all things Arnzen.…

“Fuzzy Bunnies”: My First Book Trailer for The Gorelets Omnibus

Visit the book page for The Gorelets Omnibus or go directly to Raw Dog Screaming Press to order your copy today. By the way: although I've messed about with animated poems in the past, believe it or not, this video constitutes the very first "book trailer" for one of my single-author titles. If you like it, please leave comments, post it on your site or your favorite social network, or subscribe to my new channel on YouTube to support my continued efforts in this direction. There are some other trailers in a playlist there for books I appear in. I…

Friday the 13th Giveaway: Win The Gorelets Omnibus on Goodreads!

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New in ebook: Many Genres, One Craft

A quick update to note that the massive fiction writing guide that I co-edited last year, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, is now available in an affordable ebook form for the Amazon Kindle and the Barnes and Noble Nook. You can learn more about this title, read an excerpt, and even order a copy from the new book page I've added to the jazzy new Books and Other Creative Works catalog here on gorelets.com. Many Genres has not only swept up an astounding number of industry awards, it also is getting rave reviews from writers who…

The Fourth

You imagine bruising the bully who once burned you with the firecracker down your pants -- beating then cutting him, exposing the bone and watching him bleed as you fork him onto the barbecue -- as the coals spit their fireworks: everything red, white and blue. Grill marks stark as prison bars on the meat as you celebrate your freedom and imagine.