Holiday Round-Up

  Happy Holidays! I've been extremely busy on many fronts, personal and professional -- and now that I'm on a brief holiday break, I'm catching up with obligations and promises.  I plan to get the next issue of The Goreletter out soon, but for now I thought I'd give everyone a quick round-up of what's happening in Arnzenland lately: Big news:  The Gorelets Omnibus is scheduled for a January 2012 release!  If you preorder a copy directly from Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my other books, 100 Jolts & Play Dead), you'll get a free collector's item! Get the…

The Cowbird Diary: http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/

I was kindly invited to keep a personal diary on the impressive new website, cowbird.com and despite my heavy workload I decided to give it a whirl.  The whole cowbird website might pull you in -- there are some amazing things happening there, with tons of authentic storytelling, lots of great photos and some humbling reports from the trenches of everyday life.  The shared "saga" approach to community journalism is unique, too.  You can find my profile on http://cowbird.com/author/mike-arnzen/  Haven't been journaling for awhile now, and while I've always preferred to keep my daily life private, this still seemed like…

Wicker Park Press Catalog — features Poe’s Lighthouse

Just shared this Chicago publisher's catalog on my scribd.com page -- go there if your browser can't load it below. AMAZING COVER ART on this publisher's catalog (art: "Poe Rendering" by J.M. Demetrius, copyright 2011)! Includes good overview in the front pages for the upcoming reprint of POE'S LIGHTHOUSE, edited by Christopher Conlon -- due in paperback soon -- which includes one of my short stories. The book is a collection of stories that complete an unfinished fragment of fiction by Edgar Allan Poe...with amazing results. Preordering is available on amazon.com, or directly from Wicker Park Press. Check out their…

Pre-order The Gorelets Omnibus!

My latest book is now available for pre-order.  And I'm very proud to share it with you, because it's the result of a decade of work right here on gorelets.com.  It's a big honking book of dreadful little things called THE GORELETS OMNIBUS. I'll paste the publisher's description below, but if you want to jump right to their catalog, Raw Dog Screaming Press (publisher of my other books, 100 Jolts and Play Dead) are now accepting pre-orders on their website.  PREORDERS WILL GET A FREE SIGNED BROADSIDE AS A COLLECTIBLE BONUS. The book will likely ship in late January 2012. …

Metal Distortions: New Photo Set Posted to Flickr

Check out "Metal Distortions" -- my latest photo set over on my flickr gallery.  I've just uploaded about ten distorted versions of rock concerts I've been to this year. I especially like the way the shots from the Judas Priest Epitaph tour turned out. The above shot is actually one I did NOT post to the flickr gallery, because it uses the same photo as another one I altered that is a bit cooler ("Metal on Metal").  But I like it...even if, for some reason, it reminds me of The Walking Dead comic series. Comments always welcome, anywhere on the…