“What can I say? Holy effeing hell this is some brilliant sh*t! …Audiovile has BITE. It sounds like something you would hear late at night in a darkened coffee shop, with wisps of old coffee wafting to your nose….It has a very unique style, something from a David Lynch film. It’s deep, grabs [...]

If you’ll indulge me for a moment: please pick up your wine glass, water bottle or coffee mug. I want to raise a high toast to a great publisher.
This year marks Raw Dog Screaming Press’ fifth anniversary. Anyone who knows the independent press, knows that simply surviving that long — especially in today’s publishing economy [...]

Get out of here and go read my guest blog entry at the Horror Library Blog-o-Rama, called “Worlds of Horror.” (If you’re on myspace, go here instead, where the conversation is). I issue horror fans a challenge to read more international horror writers and break out of their “literary isolationism” — and [...]

From the June 2008 Pittsburgh Professional Magazine:

 

Ghoulish Goals: Seton Hill writing professor keeps collecting awards for his horror fiction by Kathleen Ganster (photos by Jim Judkis).

If you haven’t heard already, Gauntlet Press is producing HE IS LEGEND, an awesome tribute anthology of short stories and novellas based on the classic fiction of Richard Matheson (author of I Am Legend, The Incredible Shrinking Man, Stir of Echoes, and so much more).  I’m honored to be a part of the fun, with my short piece called [...]

Intrepid surfer, you have found the brand new Goreletter blog before it has gone live!
The Goreletter is my creative workspace & author’s newsletter; the blog is a working sketchbook for that missive and — upon recently changing to a new webhost — I have decided to expand it and revise it from the bottom [...]

The book collector’s website, Awful Books, has posted photographs of my limited edition novella, The Bitchfight, in the Bad Moon Books section of their gallery of collectable books.
Here you can see what a great job the publisher did with this exclusive collector’s edition, signed, leatherbound in a deep crimson cover, with bonus art and an [...]

I’m still stunned, so I’ll keep this relatively short…
The HWA’s Bram Stoker Awards were announced last night in Salt Lake City at the 2008 World Horror Convention. My book, PROVERBS FOR MONSTERS, tied for the win (along with Peter Straub for his wonderful book, 5 Stories) in the “Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection” category.
This [...]

Here is the just-announced shortlist of finalists for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award:
Superior Achievement in a Novel
THE GUARDENER’S TALE by Bruce Boston (Sam’s DotPublishing)
HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
THE MISSING by Sarah Langan (Harper)
THE TERROR by Dan Simmons (Little, Brown)
Superior Achievement in a First Novel
HEART-SHAPED BOX by Joe Hill (William Morrow)
I WILL RISE by [...]

Fearzone.com is running several features on my writing this week:

a meaty FICTION EXCERPT from my new novelette from Bad Moon Books, called The Bitchfight;
a celebratory REVIEW of that book (which calls it “an enormously entertaining modern tale of terror perhaps destined to become a future classic.”;
and finally, a fun INTERVIEW with me conducted by the [...]

This morning I saw that Boing Boing posted news about the Alpha SF Workshop for Teens — and it occurred to me that I’ve been remiss about announcing that I’ll be teaching at this writer’s workshop for young genre fans this year, alongside Tamora Pierce, Timothy Zahn, and the very cool Chris McKitterick. Application deadline [...]

The Preliminary Ballot for the 2007 Bram Stoker Award is now public. My latest book, Proverbs for Monsters, is a contender in the “fiction collection” category, and I’m very pleased. There are a LOT of great books up for the award this year, and the ballot reads like a good “recommended reading” list for 2007, [...]

The Horror Mall (the “Dark Oddities Emporium”) is a fantastic new online store for lovers of all things horror and bizarror. Check out my author page there for some good deals on my books, especially hard-to-find editions:
The Arnzen store at the Horror Mall
Update: Horror Mall now features Audiovile as a downloadable audiobook. Drop by!

Bad Moon Books is now taking pre-orders for the my novelette, The Bitchfight.
THE FIGHT IS ON! Here’s the twisted story description from the back cover:

Somewhere deep in the Black Mountains outside of Vegas, men of all kinds secretly gather to wager on a very special sport. A crowd of them surrounds a pit in the [...]

I’ve been busy over the holidays, catching up with promises and deadlines… Lots of new things are in the works for the year ahead, but some I can’t really announce until their time is at hand.
My book, Proverbs for Monsters (released from Dark Regions Press in November) has gotten some awesome reviews. Head over to [...]