Special NaNoWriMo Offer on Instigation

ALERT, HORROR WRITERS! For the rest of November, you can get my creative writing helper, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side at a 50% discount (just $1.99) if you order directly from Mastication Publications. Available only on the Mastication Publications weblog. [Sorry...special offer period has ended. But you can subscribe to the Mastication Pubs newsletter for another opportunity to get Instigation at a discount!]

Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side – New E-book Now Available!

Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side by Michael Arnzen: Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side is a treasury of twisted tips, strange scenarios and disturbing sparks to help ignite the fuel in your creative furnace. Its aim? To push you into the danger zone of your imagination, by thinking in unconventional ways and trying things you never thought — or dared — to try before in your writing, art, or dreams. See the catalog page for more information. DIRECT PURCHASE FROM MASTICATION for $3.99: ALSO NOW AVAILABLE FROM: Amazon | Barnes & Noble | iTunes | Kobo |…

Announcing the Instigation Showcase

Announcing the Instigation Showcase! From now on, anyone who publishes a response to a prompt or is inspired to write something specifically in response to Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side or the Instigation department on this weblog will be listed on the new Showcase page dedicated to helping broaden your audience. Over the years, I've received numerous emails from writers who produced new work based on the prompts in The Goreletter, and I'm happy to have finally figured out a way to showcase your work. Share your links to work (whether on a blog or in a book)…

Announcing Mastication Publications

I'm pleased to formally announce the resurrection of my old indie press imprint, Mastication Publications! While we've existed since 1991, and printed a number of chapbooks and ephemera over the past twenty years, this really marks a new phase in the press' development, as we will be more aggressively entering the ebook market and developing new projects. Our tagline is "Unusual Ideas to Chew On". Here's a snippet from the mission statement on our "About Us" page which elaborates: We see this press as more of a creative laboratory than some vain enterprise in self-publishing. It is a venue for…