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Fridge of the Damned: Production Complete!

Thanks to the support of so many generous readers, our successful project on kickstarter has brought something new into this world. Perhaps something sinister and terrifying, as well. The Fridge of the Damned magnetic word tile set! These "poetry magnets" have been manufactured by US Magnetix and all 210 pounds of them have been delivered to my publisher, Raw Dog Screaming Press, who will be working with Nathan Rosen at microhorror.com to distribute these and the myriad rewards that are going out in the first few weeks of March in appreciation to those who helped fund this project. (You might…
February 27, 2013Posted inAmbulations
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The Fridge of the Damned: A Raging Success!

A gigantic "THANK YOU!" to everyone who so generously backed our kickstarter project for The Fridge of the Damned magnetic word tile kit! This unique novelty item was not only successfully funded on Feb 1st, 2013, but we reached 200% of our goal from the contributions of so many kind backers, which allows us to deliver the set to everyone in custom tins. THANK YOU! And I also have to thank the folks who joined forces with me -- my publishers, John and Jennifer at Raw Dog Screaming Press, who not only have chipped in many of the rewards but…
February 3, 2013Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
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I Survived the Arnzstigation

  For the second half of January, Jennifer Barnes, my editor at Raw Dog Screaming Press, challenged readers and writers and students to post weird writing exercises, short responses to my Instigation prompts, and reflections, comments and pictures as part of a week long series she called "Arnzstigation Days." Those who answered the challenge were listed on a web hub page and got to bear the bloody badge (pasted up above) with pride.  Neat and weird and humbling! It's kind of weird being the subject of a creativity challenge -- like a "roast" -- only in this case, I was…
January 31, 2013Posted inArnzen News
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Arnzstigation Days end January 31st

I am honored by this heart-warmingly weird tribute that surprisingly erupted as a meme over on Facebook yesterday. Raw Dog Screaming Press is sponsoring a fun creative celebration called "Arnzstigation Days" in support of our successful funding of The Fridge of the Damned (for which all backers receive a copy of my upcoming story idea lighter fluid, Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side). It's basically a creative writing challenge and a call for memories of weirdness we may have shared. If anything from my classes, workshops or posts in the Instigation department of this website (or the prompts in…
January 24, 2013Posted inArnzen News
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Dog Star’s New Title: Resnick’s “Miracle”

Happy to see the expansion of Dog Star Books -- a hot new SF line put out by one of my longstanding publishers, Raw Dog Screaming Press, and edited by my former co-editor from Many Genres), Heidi Ruby Miller. They've just released the cover of a new book by the prolific SF author, Mike Resnick: SUMMARY: The best way to learn about an alien species is not only to live among them, but to become them in both physical form and function, but could a human really learn to think like an alien, and at what cost to his humanity?…
January 22, 2013Posted inAmbulations1 Comment