Category: News
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Instigation ShowcaseDay 3 of the Veins Blog TourMichael A. Arnzen’s website Gorelets.com is always brimming with terrific writing advice. That’s not surprise, given that Mike is both a founder of Seton Hill University’s graduate program in Writing Popular Fiction and the author of the book Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side. Instigation is a treasury of over 500 tips, scenarios and sparks…
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The Prousting of AxleDay 1 of the Veins Blog TourIf you’ve been thinking about reading Veins, now’s the time to grab a copy. For the next five days, the ebook edition will be on sale for $0.99 at Fantasist Enterprises, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Kobo. To coincide with the sale, I’ll be doing a series of guest blogs and events at some of my favorite websites, starting…
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This Week’s Mine Meld at SF Signal:
Favorite Library and Bookstore MemoriesFrom this week’s installment of The Mine Meld at SF Signal: I grew up in Levittown in the 1960s. Ten square miles of uniformity, hundreds of houses just like mine, thousands of people just like me. To escape the normalcy, my friends and I imagined strange worlds with alien landscapes, adventures in places where weird…
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Fantasy, SF, and Horror @ Rickert & Beagle
Join Michael Arnzen, Stephanie Wytovich and Lawrence Connolly for a reading and booksigning at Rickert & Beagle Books — Pittsburgh’s awesome new bookstore for fantasy, science-fiction and horror fiction — at 2pm on August 2nd, 2014. If you haven’t been to the store yet, this is a great opportunity to check it out. Peter S. Beagle (author of The Last Unicorn) and . .…
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Storytelling Night @ Riley’s Presents: Writers on Writing
Outside, rains rolled in to hammer the pub’s street-side windows, but the inside remained warm and friendly as a packed house gathered for Storytelling Night at Riley’s Pour House. The night’s theme: The Writing Life. Special quests for the evening were members of Write or Die, Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction Program, and. . .…
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Time to Listen to the Werepig!
If Greg Hall didn’t exist – the horror genre would have to just go ahead and invent him. I made that claim a few years back, and I think it might even appear somewhere on the cover of Werepig Feaver, Greg’s 2012 collection of stories and novelties – a book guaranteed to give you both…