Michael A. Arnzen's Blog: News from Gorelets.com, page 33

"Bizarro Day" Bookstore Event Follow-Up

Had a fabulous time last weekend at Backlist Books in Massillon, Ohio — a great new indie bookstore that does a knock-out job supporting not only speculative genre fiction (horror, science fiction and fantasy literature), but also the independent press.  It's good to see a place like this in the Midwest region of the country.  They carry any number of books that I have only heretofore seen available online (especially when it comes to 'bizarro' fiction), lots of genre magazines, classic...

Bizarro Day – Signing Sat 3.10 at Backlist Books (Massillon, Ohio)

Signing in Massillon, OH on 3.6.10

Who Horrors

I can't explain why I did this, but in the days and moments leading up to the halftime show by The Who at Super Bowl XLIV, I kept posting twisted and sick puns of Who song titles and lyrics to my twitter account. A few weirdos joined me in the fun.

Like most puns, some of these are astoundingly bad examples of wordplay, but what the heck: here is the complete collection of Who Horrors for your amusement, my embarrassment, and, well, posterity.

Pinhead Wizard
Tommy, Can You Fear Me?

Unusual Suspects Reading at Backlist Books, Ohio – March 6th

Flyer for The Unusual Suspects Reading

Saturday, March 06, 3:00 PM

Backlist Books bookstore: 39 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 44646

Reading and signing with Raw Dog Screaming Press authors Michael Arnzen, D. Harlan Wilson, Anderson Prunty and John Edward Lawson at Backlist Books bookstore: 39 Lincoln Way E., Massillon, OH 44646. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC.

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To keep up with my readings and booksignings, visit my author page at BookTour.Com

Don't Stop Bleeding

Just a vampire girl

Livin' in a zombie world

She took the midnight train

Goin' anywhere

Just a city boy

Dead and raised in south Detroit

He took a bite of brain

Goin' anywhere

Find a human in a smoky room

The smell of blood and cheap perfume

For a lifetime they can share the night

It goes on and on and on and on

Strangers shuffling

Up and down the boulevard

Shadows searching

In the night

Undead people

Living just to find emotion

Feasting somewhere

In the night

Slurping hearts till the lust's...

Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

Orphan Feast

Orphan Feast is a delightfully strange game, inspired by a combination of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest Proposal" and Dickens' Oliver Twist — with a little Dr. Seuss and Tim Burton thrown into the mix. In Orphan Feast you play Creeky Tom, a ghoulish rogue whose goal is to prowl the dark alleys and rundown streets of old London and capture the homeless street urchins you'll find everywhere there, gathering them in a sack, while avoiding a cast of crazy characters out to foil you...

Talk About Writing

A few bits of "writer"-related news to note:

I'll be returning as a guest lecturer at the Odyssey Fantasy Writing Workshop next Summer (applications for early admission due Jan 30th!). The kind folks at Odyssey just interviewed me for their blog, too, where I talk about how I persisted in the early years of my career, and where I share some advice for writers of genre fiction. [I'll also be returning to teach at the Alpha Workshops for Young SF/F/H Writers next summer, as well!]

A shorter...

Not Dead Yet: The Listmaniacal Archive

I've gathered all the books I've reviewed in The Goreletter (since 2002) into some fun listmania lists over at amazon.com, and I'll keep adding titles to them from the "Not Dead Yet" department into the future.

I've also been having way too much fun trolling around amazon for weird discoveries, and I have compiled a few other funky lists, like the Goofy Gory Gifts Galore list and other novelty lists. I'm apparently a listmaniac.

Amazon Listmania Collects Books Reviewed

After many years of...

20th Anniversary Contest Alert! Deadline Dec 13th.

Book Collectors, Arnzenophiliacs, and Ebayaholics, look out! Your chance to win some pretty rare swag in my 20th Anniversary Contest is ending sooner than you think! I'm extending the deadline to December 13th!

Up for grabs are some exceptionally hard-to-find items:

Live and Vile CD

A "test design" pressing of the Live and Vile audio disc. This CD (pictured above) was released in only 26 lettered edition copies, bundled with the leather bound edition of my novella, The B*tchfight, from Bad M...

The Fiction Project: Coming Soon

Join Me for The Fiction Project

I've decided to challenge myself with an art & fiction experiment that is being hosted by The Art House Co-op called "The Fiction Project."

How it works is like this: I registered on their site and will soon receive a Moleskine sketchbook and a random surprise "theme" that they will send me in the mail. I next will create a story along with images somehow based on that theme (and it can be as loosely based as I want it to be). I will share scans of my work in...