Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month

Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

Orphan Feast is a delightfully strange game, inspired by a combination of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Dickens' Oliver Twist -- with a little Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton thrown into the mix. In Orphan Feast you play Creeky Tom, a ghoulish rogue whose goal is to prowl the dark alleys and rundown streets of old London and capture the homeless street urchins you'll find everywhere there, gathering them in a sack, while avoiding a cast of crazy characters out to foil you in bizarre ways. The orphans -- if you make it back to your lair -- are…
December 23, 2009Posted inOnline Gizmo of the Month
Posted inArnzen News

Talk About Writing

A few bits of "writer"-related news to note: I'll be returning as a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop next Summer (applications for early admission due Jan 30th!). The kind folks at Odyssey just interviewed me for their blog, too, where I talk about how I persisted in the early years of my career, and where I share some advice for writers of genre fiction. [I'll also be returning to teach at the Alpha Workshops for Young SF/F/H Writers next summer, as well!] A shorter interview is attached to a brief 5-Star Review of my short story "Spring…
December 14, 2009Posted inArnzen News3 Comments
Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews

Not Dead Yet: The Listmaniacal Archive

I've gathered all the books I've reviewed in The Goreletter (since 2002) into some fun listmania lists over at amazon.com, and I'll keep adding titles to them from the "Not Dead Yet" department into the future. I've also been having way too much fun trolling around amazon for weird discoveries, and I have compiled a few other funky lists, like the Goofy Gory Gifts Galore list and other novelty lists. I'm apparently a listmaniac. After many years of neglect, I have updated my author profile on amazon.com, where you can find more weirdness and links to many of my books…
November 29, 2009Posted inNot Dead Yet: Print Reviews1 Comment
Posted inArnzen News

20th Anniversary Contest Alert! Deadline Dec 13th.

Book Collectors, Arnzenophiliacs, and Ebayaholics, look out! Your chance to win some pretty rare swag in my 20th Anniversary Contest is ending sooner than you think! I'm extending the deadline to December 13th! Up for grabs are some exceptionally hard-to-find items: A "test design" pressing of the Live and Vile audio disc. This CD (pictured above) was released in only 26 lettered edition copies, bundled with the leather bound edition of my novella, The B*tchfight, from Bad Moon Books in 2008. It features a hilarious live reading from the Zombiefest convention and demo versions and outtakes from my recording sessions…
November 25, 2009Posted inArnzen News7 Comments
Posted inData+Errata

How to Read Your Free Ebook From The Goreletter

If you got your free ebook for subscribing to the Goreletter, but don't know how to read it, did you know that Amazon.com recently released a free Kindle reader for the PC? (New versions for other platforms are coming soon, too). Here's how: simply download and install Kindle Reader for PC...and then double click on the file for your ebook from inside of Windows. Voila! It's easy. Then go back to amazon's kindle shop and download any of the INNUMERABLE other free ebooks they've got. (This is so popular, that all their "bestsellers" today are freebies). Or buy some of…
November 12, 2009Posted inData+Errata