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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.…
July 13, 2012Posted inData+Errata
Posted inArnzen News

Preview of New Broadside: “Anonymous”

Earlier this year, the first people who kindly pre-ordered the hardcover edition of The Gorelets Omnibus after it was initially announced by the publisher were promised a free exclusive broadside as a bonus. If that's you, let me assure you the delay was entirely my fault -- the poem that I wrote for this cause just wasn't quite right, and I try to treat these things special. But now I've got something done that I'm proud of and it is heading out in the mail to you. Enjoy! Here's a purposely-blurry preview, so you can see what's to come. The…
June 6, 2012Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
Posted inData+Errata

My website at gorelets.com is finally restored…and a smidge improved. Perhaps even jaunty.

Back online at gorelets.com Drop by anytime. You'll be fine. It's really all better now and no longer contagious.  A sneaky piece of malware had climbed under the blanket of my website, slipping inside the code of my online gallery, and it spread like mating bedbugs. The malware would use my site to ping off russian spambots behind the scenes and replicate whenever a visitor hit a page on the site.  But I've burned the mattress and it's all back up now, squeaky clean. Past visitors should be fine; the malware really didn't do any harm to them.  But you…
December 11, 2011Posted inData+Errata1 Comment
Posted inSnippets of the Strange

Jim Henson and Monstrosity

Liked today's google doodle for Jim Henson's 75th Birthday. It made me start thinking about just how bizarre Sesame Street (let alone The Muppet Show) really was. Also reminded me that I once wrote an alternative muppet piece in a (way) back issue of The Goreletter: if you missed it, check out "Grim Henzen Productions". p.s. The interactive logos are the best. I learned you can make the word 'google' eat itself in today's doodle... I also made the bald man's glasses spin off, but I have no idea how I did that.
September 24, 2011Posted inSnippets of the Strange