Play Dead Giveaway on Goodreads – Ends 7.8.13

Happy 4th of July to my American readers. To celebrate, I'm offering a chance to win one of two giveaway advanced paperback copies of my novel, Play Dead! These will be signed and mailed to two lucky winners. Don't need to be American to win, but you must be a member of GoodReads. Follow my Author Profile there to stay up to date and share your thoughts about my work. Reviews posted to goodreads are echoed on the bottom of most of the book pages here on gorelets. And don't forget that if you preorder the paperback directly from the…

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…

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"),…

Winner of the Goodreads Gorelets Giveaway Announced

Congratulations to Samantha Mostek -- winner of my Friday the 13th giveaway of The Gorelets Omnibus on the website for booklovers, GoodReads.com. [You can follow my profile here: http://www.goodreads.com/MichaelAArnzen ]. Samantha will be receiving a signed paperback copy as well as one of the rare broadsides I produced to celebrate the book launch. Didn't win? Sad? Well, contests for all sorts of things always appear in The Goreletter. Subscribe today! The Goreletter WILL run a contest for a few of the remaining broadsides I have on hand, so come join the mad party and stay tuned with all things Arnzen.…

Friday the 13th Giveaway: Win The Gorelets Omnibus on Goodreads!

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