Upcoming Cons and Signings in 2013

World Horror Convention & Bram Stoker Award Weekend June 13-16, 2013 | New Orleans, LA Arnzen has TENTATIVE plans to attend. http://www.stokers2013.org/ "In Your Write Mind" Book Signing June 29, 2013 | Greensburg, PA PLAY DEAD reissue release date! Arnzen will sign books at the "In Your Write Mind" workshop at Seton Hill University's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction Alumni book signing event, anticipated June 29th, 2013 at 7pm. http://inyourwritemind.setonhill.edu/ "Confluence" Convention July 19-21, 2013 | Pittsburgh, PA Arnzen will be attending Confluence: The 25th Annual Literary Sci-Fi Convention in Pittsburgh, PA (Airport Holiday Inn) July 19th - 21st, 2013.…

Announcing Mastication Publications

I'm pleased to formally announce the resurrection of my old indie press imprint, Mastication Publications! While we've existed since 1991, and printed a number of chapbooks and ephemera over the past twenty years, this really marks a new phase in the press' development, as we will be more aggressively entering the ebook market and developing new projects. Our tagline is "Unusual Ideas to Chew On". Here's a snippet from the mission statement on our "About Us" page which elaborates: We see this press as more of a creative laboratory than some vain enterprise in self-publishing. It is a venue for…

Fund The Fridge of the Damned … Get the INSTIGATION Ebook!

For the month of January, Raw Dog Screaming Press, Microhorror.com and Gorelets.com are joining forces to campaign on Kickstarter to make The Fridge of the Damned: a twisted poetry word tile set (based on something that old fans of this site will be familiar with) that will make any sticky metal surface even stickier! We need your help. Kick in a few bucks and if our dreams become a reality, you can use these demented fridge magnets however you please... in fact, with a little creative play, they might "instigate" you to come up with poetry, stories, art or even…

Fear the Abyss…and the Scary Tiny Citybots!

Just posted the above video review of a few funky science fictional things I've been up to lately: including a teeny tiny ebook device for microfiction, a new experimental (and free!) short-short anthology (#Citybots) and the awesome Fear the Abyss anthology from Post Mortem Press.