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What A Limited Edition Looks Like

The book collector's website, Awful Books, has posted photographs of my limited edition novella, The Bitchfight, in the Bad Moon Books section of their gallery of collectable books. Here you can see what a great job the publisher did with this exclusive collector's edition, signed, leatherbound in a deep crimson cover, with bonus art and an exclusive CD. The CD is called "Live and Vile," featuring an individualized "backmasked" message unique for each disc, the recording of a live performance (at Zombiefest 2007), and a cluster of remixes, rare demo versions and outtakes from my spoken word CD from Raw…
April 27, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Proverbs For Monsters Wins Stoker Award!

I’m still stunned, so I’ll keep this relatively short... The HWA’s Bram Stoker Awards were announced last night in Salt Lake City at the 2008 World Horror Convention. My book, PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS, tied for the win (along with Peter Straub for his wonderful book, 5 Stories) in the "Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection" category. This is my fourth Stoker award for my horror writing and since this particular award is going to a book that collects stories from across my career, I’m obviously overjoyed. I’ve posted a copy of my acceptance speech (read by Weston Ochse at the…
March 30, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

The 2007 Bram Stoker Award Final Ballot

Here is the just-announced shortlist of finalists for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award: Superior Achievement in a Novel THE GUARDENER'S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam’s DotPublishing) HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow) THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper) THE TERROR by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown) Superior Achievement in a First Novel HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow) I WILL RISE by Michael Calvillo (Lachesis Publishing) THE MEMORY TREE by John R. Little (Nocturne Press) THE WITCH'S TRINITY by Erika Mailman (Crown) THE HOLLOWER by Mary SanGiovanni (Leisure Books) Superior Achievement in Long Fiction AFTERWARD, THERE WILL BE A…
February 15, 2008Posted inArnzen News
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Enter the FearZone

Fearzone.com is running several features on my writing this week: a meaty FICTION EXCERPT from my new novelette from Bad Moon Books, called The Bitchfight; a celebratory REVIEW of that book (which calls it "an enormously entertaining modern tale of terror perhaps destined to become a future classic."; and finally, a fun INTERVIEW with me conducted by the inimitable horror humorist, Jeff Strand FearZone is really shaping up to be one of the best horror genre news sites out there, updated with new reviews, interviews, blog features and news items on a daily basis. Instead of eschewing film for a…
February 15, 2008Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Horror Writing Courses & Academics in 2008

This morning I saw that Boing Boing posted news about the Alpha SF Workshop for Teens -- and it occurred to me that I've been remiss about announcing that I'll be teaching at this writer's workshop for young genre fans this year, alongside Tamora Pierce, Timothy Zahn, and the very cool Chris McKitterick. Application deadline is March 1st. I will also be leading a Flash Fiction writing workshop at Context SF Convention in September. It was exceptionally cool to be the Horror Guest of Honor at Context last year; this year's guest horror writer is Brian Keene, and other horror…
January 27, 2008Posted inArnzen News