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...
“The horror which a dead body (especially a human one), a death’s head, skeletons, and similar things cause can also be explained to a great extent by the fact that thoughts of latent animatedness always lie so close to these things. Such a thought may often push its way into consciousness so that it is itself capable of giving the lie to appearance…”
— Ernst Jentsch, “On the Psychology of the Uncanny” (1906)