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Is This Your Card?

Thanks to everyone who entered the Play Dead "Pick a Card" Contest! The rules were simple: guess a card I randomly pulled from the deck. If you guessed the suit or the pip correct, you were entered into a random draw for a chance to win. One lucky person guessed the exact card and won the grand prize! And here are the results... Many congratulations to the following winners! As you can see above, the card drawn was the 6 of clubs. Tracy Mowdy was one of four people who guessed the correct suit, and won the draw for a…
July 21, 2013Posted inData+Errata1 Comment
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The Play Dead “Pick a Card” Contest!

[The following contest is over -- see the winning card / person here.] I just pulled a random card from a deck of cards. Have a look: Can you guess which card it is? Respond with a comment on this post, indicating pip (#/face) + suit. (Jokers have been removed). Guess well. You only get one guess. But several chances to win! On July 20th, I will reveal a photo with the card above turned-over. If you guessed the correct suit, you are entered in a random draw for a signed copy of THE BLEU MAN GROUP cd single and…
July 5, 2013Posted inData+Errata23 Comments
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Announcing the Book Haiku contest winners

The latest issue of The Goreletter (Vol. 7.01: "Cibophobia") included a special subscribers-only contest that involved writing a haiku summary of one of my books and posting it to LibraryThing's #bookhaiku page. Here are the winning entries (surprise: I've added a bonus for 4th place!). These fine folks are all each receiving a signed copy of Many Genres, One Craft, an uncased copy of the film based on my short-shorts, Exquisite Corpse, on DVD, and a special signed CD-R single of "The Bleu Man Group" (featuring both live and studio versions), excerpted from the ArnzenSongs CD (currently in production as…
February 16, 2013Posted inData+Errata
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Goreletter 7.01 Mailed

The Goreletter Vol. 7, #1 was e-mailed to subscribers on 1/13/12 @ 11:59pm est. It contains extra entertainment/material not available here on the weblog version, including a haiku contest exclusive to subscribers with one-of-a-kind prizes. If you subscribe and did not receive this issue, e-mail me for a replacement or review the archives at gorelets.com. If you need to check or update your subscription's email address, just enter it in the subscribe box and review the report. Subscribe today...it's free and you can always unsubscribe if it terrorizes you too much. Issues are mailed only a few times per year,…
January 14, 2013Posted inData+Errata
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Congratulations to the Microhorror Contest Winners

If my book, 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories, left you hungry for more and more sick flash fiction, then you might want to check out microhorror.com, to get your quick fix of terror. A few weeks ago I guest-judged (along with Nathan Rosen and Oonah Joslin) a writing contest they held on the site for short-short horror stories related to the common theme of "art." It generated a huge response, and I read a lot of very sick stories that made it a difficult process to select the very best. My hat's off to the winners: Caelin Beaty (for "Chiseled"),…
December 29, 2012Posted inData+Errata1 Comment