05/20/2013 at 9:55 am Pleased that The Gorelets Omnibus is a nominee for the first Elgin Award from @SFPoetry - the Science Fiction Poetry Association (SFPA) for "best book and best chapbook published in the preceding year"! http://www.sfpoetry.com/index.html Voting members, contact me for a free copy.
Science Fiction Poetry Association, an international organization of speculative poets.
05/15/2013 at 8:15 pm #Instigation: Creative Prompts on the Dark Side is on #Kobo: http://www.kobobooks.com/ebook/Instigation/book-nvhTnAG4wkOueWUaUeVJRA/page1.html Play their trivia contest for good discounts.
<p> <strong>Brimming with over 500 prompts</strong>, INSTIGATION: CREATIVE PROMPTS ON THE DARK SIDE is a treasury of twisted tips, strange scenarios and disturbing sparks to help ignite the fuel in… read more at Kobo.
05/15/2013 at 11:36 am Great quote of a great artist from a great site @nextnature If you create and haven't seen Eno's "Oblique Strategies," you're missing out. Web version: http://www.joshharrison.net/oblique-strategies/
“Stop thinking about art works as objects, and start thinking about them as triggers for experiences.” – Happy birthday Brian Eno
05/11/2013 at 6:32 pm The death card is in your deck: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gorelets/8728768538/in/photostream
Here's an advanced look at the new cover art for my second novel, Play Dead, appearing in paperback and ebook for the first time in June 2013 from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Novel by Michael Arnzen. Cover art and design by Nathan Rosen. Book design by Jennifer Barnes. From the back cover: “Established...
“… it is possible to recognize the dominance in the unconscious mind of a ‘compulsion to repeat’ proceeding from the instinctual impulses and probably inherent in the very nature of the instincts — a compulsion powerful enough to overrule the pleasure principle, lending to certain aspects of the mind their daemonic character, and still very clearly expressed in the impulses of small children; a compulsion, too, which is responsible for a part of the course taken by the analyses of neurotic patients. All these considerations prepare us for the discovery that whatever reminds us of this inner ‘compulsion to repeat’ is perceived as uncanny.”
— Sigmund Freud, “The Uncanny” (1919)