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Congrats to LibraryThing member Sarah who just won a copy of my book 100 Jolts: Shockingly Short Stories as part of a “member giveaway” raffle!   Sarah was one of over 200 entrants; I have a list of the top five picks and may be giving runner-up prizes as I can afford them to a handful of others.  Thanks to all who participated in the fun!

LibraryThing is a great place for book lovers to share their book catalogs.  I’m a lifetime LT author and welcome your visit.

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[This contest has unfortunately ended.  Thanks to everyone who entered!:]

[ACT QUICK!  This opportunity expires today. There are over 200 entrants so far!:]

You can win a free signed copy of my book, 100 Jolts, by entering a request at the “member giveaway” raffle at LibraryThing.com.  You’ll need to sign up for LibraryThing if you’re not already on the bookshelf sharing site…luckily, they offer free limited membership (and a cheap pricetag for unlimited membership).  I’m a LTAuthor — come check it

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If you’d like to read a few quick horror haiku, click on over to the Little Blog of Horrors over at Horror-Web.com.  They’ve posted the top three entries of a horror-ku contest I recently judged.  Congrats to winners CS McBride, Bruce Boston and John Pupo!

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I should be working, but how can I when there are maniac clowns on the loose?

The new “MySpace for Horror Fans Only” website, The Haunt, hosts a bounty of online “flash” games you can play online for free in their macabre Arcade section. I’m not too old to admit I thoroughly enjoyed the silly survivalist massacre known as Clown Killer 2.   After a ten minute session, I became the champion player of CK2 with a new high score…which will surely be defeated soon by some John Wayne Gacy wannabe who ha

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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.

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Write Horror at Seton Hill University

How cool is my University? The above image is a sneak preview of an ad campaign they’ll be releasing soon for our graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction, where students can earn a Master’s degree for writing a horror novel. Instructors include luminaries in the horror/fantasy genre you might be familiar with, like Tim Waggoner, Gary Braunbeck, Timons Esaias and Lawrence C. Connolly and many others.

We’re currently brainstorming “taglines” to go with the a

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You can now listen to the *complete* roundtable conversation between Lawrence C. Connolly, Lucy A. Snyder, Gary A. Braunbeck and myself, recorded in late September 2008, called “The Business/Life of Writing Horror and Dark Fantasy”. It’s one of the best panels on the genre I’ve ever been a part of, in professional studio-quality audio. The discussion goes into very deep, and sometimes very funny, territory, really showing the complexity of the genre and where horror fiction is headed. Hosted

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