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“French Smilie” — Outtake from Video in Progress

Working up a video related to "The Fridge of the Damned" (which is something exciting to announce in the New Year!). This snapshot of two overlapping fridge magnets is an outtake I kind of liked and felt compelled to share here. I posted a similar one to flickr last night. [The mouths on both are from an old "Freaky Faces" magnet set we picked up in a gift shop years ago.] You'll be hearing a lot more about the Fridge of the Damned soon... hope you'll participate!
December 28, 2012Posted inAmbulations
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Poster for My Horror Writing Class at SHU in Spring

I love my day job, teaching terror. This class in "Horror and Suspense Writing" meets the requirements for our new undergraduate "Certificate in Genre Writing" at Seton Hill University. [Got a BA and looking to write a novel? Then check out our MFA in Writing Popular Fiction!] Recognize the image? That's "The Dark Librarian" from my flickr gallery.
October 21, 2012Posted inAmbulations1 Comment
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Bizarro Reading in Morgantown

I drove out to Morgantown, WV to see the Raw Dog Screaming Press reading event -- sponsored by the Morgantown Poets society -- for stalwart "bizarro" writers and old friends John Edward Lawson and D. Harlan Wilson. This event marked the official print release of Lawson's new book, SuiPsalms, which he introduced by announcing the number for the Suicide Hotline and explained that his book fell in with a new genre he hadn't been aware of until he started writing the book, Suicide Poetry (example here). D. Harlan Wilson read a hilarious excerpt from the tongue-in-cheek Hitler: The Terminal Biography.…
August 17, 2012Posted inAmbulations
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Gorelets.com Returns to its Mobile-Friendly Roots

While "responsive" is a word I usually associate with "Things Doctors Say In Intensive Care Units," it's also a word that now applies to this website. "Responsive" means that the site automatically recognizes if you're reading it with a touchscreen device and it changes to make it more mobile-friendly. [The same is true of the Arnzen Social Network page at http://michaelarnzen.com/ and most of the other main pages linked in my menu.] While I doubt it's perfect, you can now far more easily read the text and browse pages while on the road, riding in the back of your hearse…
August 5, 2012Posted inAmbulations
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Photos from Seton Hill WPF Book Signing 2012

Our Writing Popular Fiction program at Seton Hill University took over the gymnasium and McKenna Center last night to host a mass book signing, and it was great to see so many new book releases from students, alums and faculty alike. It was fantastic to have two of my publishers in the house -- Raw Dog Screaming Press and Headline Books. Here's a few snapshots from the event. (You can see some from last year here, too.) Thanks to all who visited campus, dropped by my table, and picked up copies of The Gorelets Omnibus, Many Genres, One Craft, Play…
June 23, 2012Posted inAmbulations1 Comment