Archive for December, 2009


Please Sir, Can I Have Some Gore?

by Michael Arnzen ~ December 23rd, 2009

Orphan Feast

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 in bizarre ways. The orphans — if you make it back to your lair — are destined for the oven, to be baked into pies (and Tom himself often snacks on the little kiddies when he’s not doing anything else). It’s a despicable premise, but the artwork is so well-done that you’ll keep playing to see what they come up with next.

Brought to you by [adult swim] games, so you know that it’s weird. In fact, they’ve got a LOT of crazy games even weirder and more deplorable than this one. Like 5 Minutes to Kill Yourself, a classic favorite.

Getting hungry? Time to partake in the Orphan Feast!

Happy Holidays!

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Talk About Writing

by Michael Arnzen ~ December 14th, 2009

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 interview is attached to a brief 5-Star Review of my short story “Spring Ahead, Fall Back,” over on Red Adept’s Kindle Book Review Blog. You can get that story and more on your Kindle at amazon.com. [Speaking of amazon, I just posted lengthy "Listmania" of hard-to-find anthologies they sell in which I appear, aptly entitled "Michael Arnzen Is Lurking In The Shadowy Corners of Your Bookstore"].

And finally, a meaty excerpt from my article in the book Writer’s Workshop of Horror appears in this month’s (Jan 2010) issue of The Writer magazine, which is on the racks now!

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P.S. My 20th Anniversary Contest has passed deadline. If you have entered by kindly writing a customer review, you need to let me know about it via e-mail with your mailing address asap. The random draw for winners will be posted later this week. WINNERS HAVE BEEN POSTED. THANKS TO ALL!

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