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Arnzen Interview at The Black Glove magazine
Check out Karen Newman's new interview with me at The Black Glove online horror site. They also review my book, Proverbs for Monsters in another post.
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Pluck Your Last Drink Bird Head
Awhile ago I got the strangest e-mail message from World Fantasy Award-winning author (and old friend) Jeff Vandermeer. It read: Who is Last Drink Bird Head? Story, anecdote, 500 words. Don't Think: just write. And I did. My story was but one of a long list of short-shorts that now appear in Last Drink Bird Head: Flash Fiction for Charity -- with all proceeds going to proliteracy.org. The results are pretty astounding, ranging from hilariously surreal to pensively chilling to deeply touching. The publisher writes: "Last Drink Bird Head is a blues musician, a performance artist, a type of alcohol,…
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Book Trailer — The Writer’s Workshop of Horror
I am hearing reports that Writer's Workshop of Horror has already gone into it's 2nd printing. This collection of advice from today's top authors of terror -- from Brian Keene to Joe Lansdale to Michael Laimo to many more -- is a virtual college classroom in a book when it comes to the craft of the crypt. I'm recommending it to all my students in our MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at SHU. But even if you're not a writer, where else, I ask, can you get such "behind the scenes" insight from your favorite authors? Visit the order…
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Bizarro Alert: Borderline France
Hot on the heels of Skull Fragments, comes another appearance in France. Borderline magazine has just published Jerome Charlet's French translation of my short-short, "The Cow Cafe" (Au Vachement d'Cafe) in their 13th issue. Of import: this issue is focused primarily on the BIZARRO genre, and includes translations of work by such over-the-top and outre writers as Jeremy R. Johnson, Kevin Donihe, Andersen Prunty, Jeremy Shipp, Carlos Gardini, artist Maxime LeDain, and an interview with horror writer Kealan Patrick Burke. Good to see the 'bizarros' getting the international attention they deserve. The cover is wildly suggestive and weird.
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The Writer’s Workshop of Horror
I'm pleased to appear in this brand new book of advice for those who want to improve their horror fiction, called order The Writer's Workshop of Horror (ed. Michael Knost, Woodland Press, Aug 2009). It's focused exclusively and deeply on the craft of scary storytelling, with a stellar line-up of contributors that include the likes of Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, and too many more to list: from grand masters to rising stars, the book is a treasury of wisdom you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere. If the (also fantastic) Horror…