Posted inInstigation

MORE Twisted Prompts for NaNoWriMo Writers

Last week I posted a batch of creative writing sparks just for novelists to inspire some craziness during the launch of NaNoWriMo ("National Novel Writing Month") Now it's a week later. Many writers have quit. Still others are beginning to lose steam. So I'm offering another batch of Instigation to possibly keep the fires burning weirdly. Remember: finishing is not enough. You have to GO CRAZY! The glee of the twisted is a communicable disease that many readers love to catch. Good luck. ~~~~~~~~~ + Your character is desperate. Literally have them make a sacrifice. To a named deity. Even…
November 8, 2009Posted inInstigation
Posted inArnzen News

Kindle2 Opens the Ebook Watershed: The Time Has Come

It's time to go ebook, if you haven't already. Today amazon.com releases their next generation Kindle2 ebook reading device, which is now able to pull information out of the (cell phone) wireless networks internationally...and you don't have to subscribe to a cell phone service to do so.  This means that the medium has gone totally global; you can read an ebook anywhere -- and update/sync/buy anywhere, too.  So what? This means that publishers everywhere will now see a new way to reach millions of readers, so they're all going to push these electronic formats (if they haven't already). Readers like…
October 19, 2009Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

Book Trailer — The Writer’s Workshop of Horror

I am hearing reports that Writer's Workshop of Horror has already gone into it's 2nd printing. This collection of advice from today's top authors of terror -- from Brian Keene to Joe Lansdale to Michael Laimo to many more -- is a virtual college classroom in a book when it comes to the craft of the crypt. I'm recommending it to all my students in our MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program at SHU. But even if you're not a writer, where else, I ask, can you get such "behind the scenes" insight from your favorite authors? Visit the order…
August 25, 2009Posted inArnzen News
Posted inArnzen News

The Writer’s Workshop of Horror

I'm pleased to appear in this brand new book of advice for those who want to improve their horror fiction, called order The Writer's Workshop of Horror (ed. Michael Knost, Woodland Press, Aug 2009). It's focused exclusively and deeply on the craft of scary storytelling, with a stellar line-up of contributors that include the likes of Clive Barker, Joe Lansdale, F. Paul Wilson, Ramsey Campbell, Brian Keene, Elizabeth Massie, and too many more to list:  from grand masters to rising stars, the book is a treasury of wisdom you'd be hard pressed to find elsewhere.  If the (also fantastic) Horror…
June 16, 2009Posted inArnzen News
Posted inData+Errata

Horror Haiku Contest

Jimmy Z. -- the new purveyor of Horror-web.com -- has invited me to judge a horror haiku contest they're presently running, with cash prizes. If you write poetry, or simply love to wax pithy with expressions of zombie philosophy, you still have time to send him your submissions. The deadline is Feb 1st. You might read Ryan Mecum's Zombie Haiku for inspiration.
January 27, 2009Posted inData+Errata