My program for the Confluence SF convention (July 22-23)

Next week (July 22-23rd, 2011) I'll be attending Pittsburgh's annual Literary Science Fiction convention, Confluence.  Here's my schedule of events: Friday July 22, 5:30pm  Jr Suite   Michael Arnzen Fiction Reading     Friday 6pm   Jr Suite   Literary Beer: informal chat about the book, MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT: LESSONS IN WRITING POPULAR FICTION with editors Heidi Ruby Miller & Michael Arnzen Friday 10pm  Willow Room HORROR PANEL: "Growing up Scared: How What Scares us Changes as We Age"   Michael Arnzen (Moderator);  Paul Anderson; John Alfred Taylor; Lawrence Connolly  Description: "From monsters and gore to conspiracy and untrustworthy senses, the things that…

Kindle Experiments

I've begun another series of weird photos -- "Kindle Experiments" -- over on my flickr gallery. Just having fun messing around with shots of my amazon kindle. Let me know what you think. Plans are afoot with publishers of my backlist to produce ebook versions of my novels and collections in the year to come. Keep an eye on my Amazon profile if you're looking for something new for your kindle, nook, kanookiedindle, et cetera.

Photos from the Many Genres book launch party, 6/24/11

We had a phenomenal book launch party at Seton Hill U for our new instructional book. Drop by the Many Genres One Craft weblog for some great photos from the event, which was held during the writers residency for our MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction. Horror writers in attendance included Gary Braunbeck, Tim Waggoner, Scott Johnson, Lawrence Connolly, Jean-Loup Benet, Lucy Snyder, Kristin Dearborn, Paul Popiel, David Corwell, Sheldon Higdon and many many more.