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“Dog Con” Launches a Yearlong Anniversary Party for Raw Dog Screaming Press

Welp, the very first ever "Dog Con" has come and gone, and as you'll see below, while I didn't go, I still went. The good folks at Raw Dog Screaming Press hosted a semi-private party-slash-convention to launch the celebration of their ten year anniversary, and from all reports, the festivities were nothing short of transformational. The press is renewed, launching a brand new science fiction imprint called Dog Star Books -- with Heidi Ruby Miller (co-editor of Many Genres One Craft) at the editorial helm. There will be a new website, a new focus on community, and pack of new…
October 24, 2012Posted inArnzen News1 Comment
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The Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha!

Good morning. Let's turn on the time machine and watch an original nightmare cartoon from last century's Depression-era cultural dreamscape: "Bimbo's Initiation" (1931). This classic animation from the great Max Fleischer is a surrealist haunted house story as much as it is a edgy, pre-Hays Code, Betty Boop classic. Join the Mystic Order of the Koo-Koo-Ma-Hatcha! "Bimbo's Initiation" is currently featured on the Fleischer Studios front page -- or you can catch it on YouTube If you like this kind of thing, you'll also dig Fleischer's "Swing You Sinners," which transpires in an uncanny graveyard. Both films are detailed in…
October 20, 2012Posted inSaturday Morning Cartoons1 Comment
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DogCon is On

Raw Dog Screaming Press -- longtime publisher of many of my books -- like 100 Jolts, Play Dead, Audiovile and The Gorelets Omnibus -- are preparing for the launch of their -- gasp! -- TEN YEAR ANNIVERSARY, by hosting an exclusive (invite-only), limited engagement called "DogCon" in Bowie, MD. I won't be able to attend it this year (maybe next!), but I will be there in cyberspace for a reading over the internet on Saturday at 4 p.m. via FaceTime (followed by a reading by the great bizarro D. Harlan Wilson). The DogCon group will be hosting a Google+ Hangout…
October 17, 2012Posted inArnzen News