Posted inArnzen News Instigation

RDSP Retrospective Event: Book Deal, Chat, and Writing Contest!

[UPDATE: The writing contest has now ended. I was asked to judge the finalists, and have submitted my selections to Raw Dog Screaming Press, who have now announced the winners and published the winning entry. Thanks to all who participated!] For the month of August, Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my novel, Play Dead) is offering a sweet "Retrospective" book bundle of their bestselling short-story collections, which packages together my book, 100 JOLTS, with Jeremy C. Shipp's Sheep and Wolves and Adam Golaski's Worse Than Myself, for a VERY low price ($30 for paperbacks, $12 for Ebooks). Orders get…
August 1, 2010Posted inArnzen News, Instigation4 Comments
Posted inArnzen News

Arnzen MySpace Profile to End Aug 1st 2010

Alert! I have decided to cancel the arnzen profile pages at myspace.com. Go kiss it goodbye before August 1st, when it will meet its demise. I always hated the 'look' of myspace.com, but I enjoyed the company of many friends, newfound and old, once I signed up. But the primary reason I joined myspace years ago (in Spring 2007) was to promote my CD, Audiovile. It gave me a convenient way to upload and share mp3 tracks from the disc. Nowadays I know how to stream music on THIS site myself, and the CD is also sampled everywhere, like on…
July 30, 2010Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
Posted inBlather

Weird Juice

Stabble Fungalberry Kiweird Cocktail Poisonberry Phlegmonaid (With Extra Pulp) Embalmigranate Bashin' Berry Scabapple Scrape Juice Angerine Spineapple Strango Slaughtermelon Smoothie Crampelope Slimeade Neck Nectar Horrange Slitrus Lime Gaspberry Upchuck Cherry Slopical Punch Scarfruit Granbury Scarrot Leech
July 25, 2010Posted inBlather1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

Summer Teaching Tour

I apologize for not posting here a lot lately -- I've been very busy teaching this past year, and I'll be busy teaching all over again in the month to come, for a number of genre fiction-focused writing workshops. I'll be running my "Atmosphere in Horror and Fantasy" course in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University next week, followed by a fun guest lecture on "Making the Reader Squirm" at the acclaimed Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop the week after that, then running some workshops on writing uncanny scenes at Alpha: The SF/F/H Writing Workshop for…
June 15, 2010Posted inArnzen News2 Comments
Posted inWeblog Exclusive

TWEET AT THE DEVIL

He's the geek screaming lonely in the night 'Cuz he can't reload the pa-ay-age He's the tear in your eye When you lose your Wi-Fi He's the hash in your tag He's faved And he's the fantasy wife That's wasting your life And spamming you to the ground But on the pages of Twitter We'll type and deliver Be short. And waste time... Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet at the Devil! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet! Tweet at the Devil! He's the follower you hate And you won't reciprocate But he will not be ignore-or-ored He follows you to the grave When you…
June 12, 2010Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment