The Michael Arnzen Social Network

Social networking is a chaotic mess, so I've created a new weblog as a central hub for posting mobile photos, sharing errant items, weird notions, and personal items that don't quite belong here on The Goreletter. If you want to follow or friend me on your favorite social media site, drop on by: The Michael Arnzen Social Network: http://michaelarnzen.com My first plan for it is to post photos and more from the Bram Stoker Award Weekend in New York later this week.

Ignition

[This photo originally launched my microblog at posterous.com -- which has now been imported into the gorelets.com blog, as of 4/8/12.  Mobile photos and comments from the road are now located under the "Ambulations" category].

2011 Stoker Weekend Coming to New York

YO, NEW YORK! In mid-June I'll be attending the Horror Writer Association's "Stoker Weekend" on Long Island and I invite you to the public book signing and more... Stoker Weekend 2011 will be held at the Long Island Marriott Hotel and Conference Center (101 James Doolittle Boulevard; [516] 794-3800) in Uniondale, New York, June 16-19. The multi-author book signing extravaganza is on Thursday evening, June 16, from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. in the hotel’s Grand Ballroom. In addition to myself, some of the authors planning to appear included Peter Straub, David Morrell, Douglas Clegg, Gillian Flynn, Sarah Langan, Heather…

Dark Promptings: Murder Ballads from Jason Jack Miller

"Dark Promptings" is a special series of guest-written creative writing prompts, aimed at sparking the imagination's gasoline for writers from any genre...but with a dark or devious discoloration, just like the Instigation department at Gorelets.com. The guest contributors are folks who wrote articles appearing in my fat new non-fiction book for fiction writers of all kinds, Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, making a stop here at gorelets.com as part of their Virtual Book Tour across the web. (You can find my own VBT essays elsewhere). Writers and creative people: drop on by our book's meaty weblog…

“Scary Things”: An Address to the Class of 2011

[Here's a video of the speech cited below, posted by my friend, photographer/designer Bruce Siskawicz] "Scary Things" Professor of the Year Acceptance Speech by Michael A. Arnzen Seton Hill University Honor's Convocation Friday, May 13, 2011 President Boyle, Provost Gawelek, distinguished members of the stage, cherished faculty colleagues, dear staff, close friends and -- most importantly -- future alumnae of Seton Hill University…I thank you all for this dubious honor. I also want to thank two other major figures in my life, without whom I would not be here today: first, my wife, Renate, who chose to move from Germany…