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The Goreletter 9.4 Mailed

Happy Halloween Season! The Goreletter Vol. 9, #4 was delivered to mailing list subscribers on 10/20/14 @ 10:00am est. It contains extra entertainment/material not available here on the weblog version, including breaking news about the re-publication of my first novel, Grave Markings, an extended Dictionscary entry musing over names for different lobes of the brain, and a list of funny hashtag games on twitter. A version of the image above was also included in the newsletter -- if you like it, you can download a large size of it from my flickr gallery. FYI: The newsletter erroneously was delivered with…
October 22, 2014Posted inData+Errata

[caption id="attachment_7245" align="aligncenter" width="612"]Originally posted on Notegraphy Originally posted on Notegraphy[/caption] The message above was my overwrought response to a question posed on the Science Fiction Poetry Association's mailing list, that asked: "Is horror a genre or an attribute of literature?" It's heavy-handed, but that's kind of why I like it, so I turned it into a notegraphy post. [I've been using Notegraphy with students in my flash fiction writing course this summer. Here's my profile and I think you can see (though you may have to be a member first) some of my students work here ] Postscript, 7/31: Thanks to Diane Severson Mori for referencing this post in her recent review of Chad Hensley's latest poetry book at Amazing Stories.

The Nature of Horror: Horror is a Church…
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Diabolique Strategies: Random Provocations into the Dark Side

I've long admired the "Oblique Strategies" -- an infamous deck of creativity cards invented by musician Brian Eno and artist Peter Schmidt that has a cult following among artists and musicians. It is one part thinking game, one part fortune cookie. They made it as a way to spur them into thinking differently about their current projects, by drawing random lateral thinking triggers from the deck (like “destroy the most important thing” or “give the game away”). But I've always wondered: What would they look like if Eno had been in a Death Metal band instead of Roxy Music? Or…
March 23, 2014Posted inArnzen News, Instigation
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ATTENTION: The Former Goreletter Server/Archive has Moved

On Halloween, I began using a new mail server to design and deliver The Goreletter, which includes fancy HTML graphics and more options. I have also now removed previous newsletter server pages for The Goreletter -- which means that more than a decade's worth of former archives are also no longer accessible and any links here and abroad that referenced a "cgi" directory are no longer valid and will probably take visitors automatically to an error page or a dead end. I am presently rebuilding the former archives (and eliminating all old dead URLs from them) in a fancy, new…
November 26, 2013Posted inData+Errata
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The New Goreletter (Vol. 8) – Delivered on Halloween

Around midnight on Halloween, I unleashed the latest issue of The Goreletter -- an all new format hosted by an all new service for better security, greater options, and a renewed mission. If you did not receive one, either your address was stale or you were lost in the shuffle. Here's what you missed -- http://eepurl.com/H17F1 -- please resubscribe or check to ensure your spam filter isn't blocking mailings from me. In the mean time, I will be moving the archives of back issues and chasing down old, dead links to them. Thank you to all who follow my writing…
November 1, 2013Posted inData+Errata