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Arnzen MySpace Profile to End Aug 1st 2010

Alert! I have decided to cancel the arnzen profile pages at myspace.com. Go kiss it goodbye before August 1st, when it will meet its demise.

I always hated the 'look' of myspace.com, but I enjoyed the company of many friends, newfound and old, once I signed up. But the primary reason I joined myspace years ago (in Spring 2007) was to promote my CD, Audiovile. It gave me a convenient way to upload and share mp3 tracks from the disc.

Nowadays I know how to stream music on THIS site myself, ...

Weird Juice

Stabble

Fungalberry

Kiweird Cocktail

Poisonberry

Phlegmonaid (With Extra Pulp)

Embalmigranate

Bashin' Berry

Scabapple

Scrape Juice

Angerine

Spineapple

Strango

Slaughtermelon Smoothie

Crampelope

Slimeade

Neck Nectar

Horrange

Slitrus Lime

Gaspberry

Upchuck Cherry

Slopical Punch

Scarfruit

Granbury

Scarrot

Leech

Summer Teaching Tour

I apologize for not posting here a lot lately — I've been very busy teaching this past year, and I'll be busy teaching all over again in the month to come, for a number of genre fiction-focused writing workshops. I'll be running my "Atmosphere in Horror and Fantasy" course in the MFA program in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University next week, followed by a fun guest lecture on "Making the Reader Squirm" at the acclaimed Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop the week after that, then...

TWEET AT THE DEVIL

He's the geek screaming lonely in the night

'Cuz he can't reload the pa-ay-age

He's the tear in your eye

When you drop your Wi-Fi

He's the hash in your tag

He's faved

And he's the fantasy wife

That's wasting your life

And spamming you to the ground

But on the pages of Twitter

We'll type and deliver

Be short. And waste time…

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!

Tweet at the Devil!

Tweet! Tweet! Tweet!

Tweet at the Devil!

He's the follower you hate

And you won't reciprocate

But he will not be ignore-or-ored

He...

microcosm twitterzine

Check out editor Stephen M. Wilson's new twitterzine for poetry, called microcosms. I have a poem in the latest "issue" ("twissue"?) released today and more to come soon.

If you don't know what a "twitterzine" is, then read this article.

scrawling

I've added a new area to the gorelets.com gallery, called "scrawl", to share visual texts and art work that doesn't quite fit anywhere. Drop on by.

2009 Stoker Award Winning Books

The 2009 Bram Stoker Award winners were announced by the Horror Writer's Association at World Horror Convention in Brighton, England, last weekend. I read almost all of these titles and I can vouch that they are superlative reads. (In fact, I lauded Lucy Snyder's poetry-winning book here in The Goreletter). See the HWA's announcement for a complete list…congratulations to all the winners!

I contributed work to two of the books (though the editors, not me, rightfully get the awards!)....

Cool April Fool

Dark Regions Press pulled a cool April Fool prank yesterday when their newsletter announced the Crypt Keeper would now be their spokesman, after reading my book, Proverbs for Monsters…

Neyahahahhahahargh!

My own April Fool's scare was pretty lame. But you can still see it on my twitter profile.

Visit Dark Regions Press for all sorts of great books that ARE worthy of the Crypt Keeper's time. I suspect their collection, Nostradumus' Fate, will be out in the months ahead. Keep you're eyes on...

Ignorance Is Bliss (For The Mole People)

"If the whole universe has no meaning, we should never have found out that it has no meaning: just as, if there were no light in the universe and therefore no creatures with eyes, we should never know it was dark. Dark would be without meaning."

- C.S. Lewis (died 1963)

Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen – Book Trailer

PS Publishing has announced that Darkness on the Edge: Tales Inspired by the Songs of Bruce Springsteen will be shipping later this month. You can pre-order it NOW on the PS Publishing home page. Here's the book trailer to get you in the mood: