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Horror Interviews on The Book Case podcast

If you're not listening to The Book Case with Kate & Charlie Gibson (of Good Morning America fame) then you're missing out on some great conversations about not only today's bestselling books, but also about the horror genre itself. Kate is a lively interviewer and such an intelligent reader -- and lately has been having a blast trying to get her father Charlie to read and enjoy and understand the horror genre in his retirement, as together they read current books and talk about them with their guest authors. They also routinely interview people in the book business and include…

By Michael Arnzen August 19, 2023Arnzen News

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Flash Audio Sale at Bandcamp

This Friday (Feb 4th, 2021) is known as "Bandcamp Friday" -- a day that happens every now and again, when the audio/music website, bandcamp, doesn't scrape any profit off the top of sales. This means a lot to the tons of indie musicians and artists they host, so a lot of bands will encourage their fans to buy their music on that day. Well, I'm no Richard Cheese, but all of my old audio releases (save for Freakcidents, which is exclusive to audible.com) are also on bandcamp, so -- as promised in the latest issue of The Goreletter -- I…

By Michael Arnzen February 3, 2022Arnzen News

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This Holiday Season Enjoy…The Filling

Happy Holidays to all my friends! I've got a new audio story out in a special Thanksgiving issue of The Wicked Library, called "The Filling." It should carry you over till the New Year. Enjoy all the pie. The Wicked Library is a professional podcast run out of Pittsburgh by Daniel Foytik of 9th Story Studios (producers of The Lift), and I'm proud to appear in their dark archives. This episode features Jeanette Andromeda as guest host, the story is read by the amazing actor and voice performer Graham Rowat, and there's also a musical score by Nico Vettese. While…

By Michael Arnzen November 22, 2021Arnzen News

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Creating Something From Nothing

At the heart of creativity is innovation -- that is, the ability to originate, or to act on the impulse to make something new. I recently was interviewed by my friend in the creativity business, author Matt Betts, who I think of as an innovative writer because he channels his fannish glee for genre literature and movies into some very fresh takes on familiar tropes, often by mashing them together and seeing what happens. He's written some wildly imaginative novels for Raw Dog Screaming Press, is authoring a sasquatch series, and is continuing the saga of Carson of Venus from…

By Michael Arnzen July 22, 2021Arnzen News, Instigation

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Instigating with Brain Squalls Podcast

Over the holidays, I appeared on the Brain Squalls podcast as their first guest. Every episode of the podcast -- run by horror author EV Knight and her partner Matt Daigh -- is a creativity experiment, in which the two of them come up with prompts for story or art ideas and then create story lines and structures "live" as they pursue the possibilities. It's a lot of fun. And when I was in the mix, bringing a little Instigation to the table, it was a lot of weird. I had a great time daydreaming on the dark side with…

By Michael Arnzen January 13, 2020Arnzen News