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On the Virtual Book Tour for Many Genres

My latest book (co-edited with Heidi Ruby Miller) is Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction. It is a huge compendium of advice for people who write genre fiction, from horror and sf/f to suspense, mystery, romance and more -- with over 60 amazing contributors. Many of the writers are participating in a "Virtual Book Tour" which essentially means they're writing guest blogs at various places all over the internet, sharing even more advice and opinions that aspiring authors will want to check out. Visit our weblog to explore all this. For my part, soon guests will be…
April 30, 2011Posted inArnzen News
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Preorder: MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT

Readers of this blog who have the writing bug might want to hop on over to Amazon.com and put in an order for my latest book (co-edited with Heidi Ruby Miller), called Many Genres, One Craft: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction. Modeled after the graduate program where I teach -- the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University -- Many Genres is a thick hardcover collection of over sixty essays by prominent writers who look under the hood of both the craft of writing for a genre audience and the business of penning novels in today's publishing world.…
April 4, 2011Posted inArnzen News4 Comments
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New Website Launched for MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT

One of my big nonfiction projects this past year was co-editing a huge, 130,000 word collection of instructional articles for writers, called MANY GENRES, ONE CRAFT: Lessons in Writing Popular Fiction, with writer Heidi Ruby Miller. It's early, but the website for the book has launched, and many insightful features are planned for it in the months leading up to the book's release this coming Spring: http://manygenres.blogspot.com If you write or teach writing, no matter what genre, this book is for you. Horror readers will likely be familiar with some of the names in the book. Gary Braunbeck launches the…
December 24, 2010Posted inArnzen News, Instigation