Dark Regions 40% Off Sale

Whoa Nelly... Dark Regions is offering 40% off when you buy a four book lot (just $39.95 + postage) from Horror Mall.  You'll get my Bram Stoker Award winning collection, Proverbs for Monsters, plus the Stoker winner for poetry, Vectors by Charlee Jacob and Marge Simon, Laura Underwood's Song of Silver, and the AWESOME horror collection by Mark Rainey, Other Gods.  That's like getting four trade paperbacks from Dark Regions Press for the price of one hardcover...a schweet deal!  Nab it.

Podcast Interview at Chronicles of the Necromancer

Gail Z. Martin, author of the Chronicles of the Necromancer series, recently interviewed me for her ongoing series of podcasts with dark fantasy, paranormal and science fiction writers. Our chatty conversation about gore, humor, death and the attraction of horror stories is now available in a podcast on Gail's site, which presently features an all-star roster of writers, including Jeffery Thomas, Tony Ruggiero, Justin Gustainis, Alethea Kontis, and Mark Chadbourn. Gail's latest book is The Blood King, available now from amazon.com, and her new book, Dark Haven is due soon from Solaris Books. Topics we discuss in our interview: fantasy…

Zombie Mall is Selling Audiovile

Zombie Mall is now selling the Audiovile CD on its all-things-undead store! They've got a few sample tracks posted, too, that you might enjoy... Technically, two of the tracks on Audiovile are stories purely concerned with Zombies proper. The rest only feature a zombie percussion player who you can dimly hear in the background, tinkling the triangle and groaning for brains when my cats were out of reach from his chain. The mall loved the CD so much they wrote a happy review of it, too. Learn all about Audiovile in the gorelets bibliography.

June Caption Contest Winners!

The latest issue of The Goreletter featured a contest with prizes for the captions rated as favorites to the following wild image by Proverbs for Monsters artist, Matt Schuster: About forty people entered some fantastic and hilarious captions and you can read all of them under the original post for chuckles. Thanks to everyone for participating; I enjoyed all the entries. Matt and I settled on the following three for prizes: "The Not-So-Fantastic Fifth" by Kurt Newton (prize: The B*tchfight ARC + Heaven's Devils) "'Are you leaving me because I’m balding, Susan?'" by Steven Pirie (prize: Signed Licker + AoD…

Appearances in July 2008

July 19th, 7pm | Alpha Booksigning | Barnes and Noble Bookstore | Greensburg, PA Arnzen reading and book signing, along with sci-fi writer Timothy Zahn (known for his Star Wars books) at Barnes and Noble Bookstore in Greensburg, PA. Students participating in the Alpha SF/F Workshops will be a part of this event (I'm teaching in the program this year). Free and open to the public. UPCOMING APPEARANCES: Aug 15-16 | HorrorFind | Adelphi, MD Join us at Horrorfind for the FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY PARTY for Raw Dog Screaming Press! I'll be there, in addition to reading at this HUGE annual convention…