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Hazard Yet Forward — New Genre Fiction Charity Anthology

I'm proud of the alumni, students, and faculty in Seton Hill U's Writing Popular Fiction graduate program for putting this new book together, with profits going to assist Donna Munro, a great writer and fellow member of our community who shocked us all by being diagnosed with breast cancer earlier this year. The kindle edition of the book was just released today on amazon for just $9.99. Totally worth it, given that it's got over 700 pages of genre stories in it. I wrote one them (first appearance of my story "The Scraper") as well as the introduction. There are…
August 7, 2012Posted inArnzen News
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On the Irrelevance of Genre Poetry [Live]

At the fun "Raw Dog Screaming Press Book Party" at the Morgantown Poets group in West Virginia last month, I opened my reading by sharing a piece I'd written for Locus Magazine, a poem about why I write poetry, which I contributed to their running Roundtable series on speculative poetry.  Here's my recitation of "On the Irrelevance of Genre Poetry," recorded during the reading. I don't often write things like this -- an opinion essay told in the form of a poem -- but the audience really seemed to laugh and also get charged up by the poem. Press the…
June 7, 2012Posted inWeblog Exclusive1 Comment
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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
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The Gorelets Omnibus for Kindle and More on Amazon.com

You can now get the Gorelets Omnibus as an e-book for the Kindle along with all the other editions, from amazon.com. I think this is very cool, because gorelets -- which, a decade ago, were originally a series of poems that were written for PDAs, the first handheld e-readers -- are now available in ebook format for your cell phone (if you have the Kindle app). This feels like coming full circle. Just so you're aware: the Kindle edition is an electronic adaptation of the paperback edition. Remember that the Hardcover is substantially expanded, with bonus poetry galore and it…
March 2, 2012Posted inArnzen News2 Comments
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Wicker Park Press Catalog — features Poe’s Lighthouse

Just shared this Chicago publisher's catalog on my scribd.com page -- go there if your browser can't load it below. AMAZING COVER ART on this publisher's catalog (art: "Poe Rendering" by J.M. Demetrius, copyright 2011)! Includes good overview in the front pages for the upcoming reprint of POE'S LIGHTHOUSE, edited by Christopher Conlon -- due in paperback soon -- which includes one of my short stories. The book is a collection of stories that complete an unfinished fragment of fiction by Edgar Allan Poe...with amazing results. Preordering is available on amazon.com, or directly from Wicker Park Press. Check out their…
December 3, 2011Posted inArnzen News