Hey! What do you know? The hotel we’re staying in has a computer in the lobby with internet access. I doubt I’ll spend much time checking in but with the time difference we’re up way too early this morning so I’ve got a little time.

The trip went well and we’ve already had the chance to hang out with Mike, talk to author Simon Wood and Jeremy and Jason from Night Shade Books. Mike was on a panel last night about horror monsters and I got a couple pics of that but so far no other pics. Things are really just getting started…

One more before we go

So we’ll be out of touch for a few days (you’re saying ‘when was the last time those two were... View Article

Packing, checking

catalogs—check mailing list—check boatload o’ books—check giveaways: sick bags, t-shirts, postcards—check Ok, almost everything is packed for World Fantasy…except our... View Article

Gratuitous dashes

The prep for WFC is moving along, got most of the books packed but it looks like we’re going to... View Article

Dangerous Red and alternate subjects

I can’t believe World Fantasy (and Halloween!) are right around the corner. I’m looking forward to an early Halloween party... View Article

card sharks

We got the coolest package from cakeearthhead in the mail the other day. It had tons of waacky stuff but... View Article

It’s so design it’s InDesign

The InDesign class is going well but sitting and listening all day without email or lj makes me a little... View Article

The chat went great! As I expected Mike and Darren had lots of interesting things to say and Horrorwench &... View Article

The writing on the wall

I saw this handwriting analysis thing on blindsidepubs’s lj so I decided to try it myself. It’s pretty accurate and... View Article

48 books lighter

The Horror of Writing was enormously successful! Check out the pics: http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thedreampeople/rds/eventframe2.html Everybody seemed to have such a great time.... View Article

I’m looking forward to the Horror of Writing thing tonight. It will be good to see Brian Keene and the... View Article

Will wonders never cease?

Ok, Sick has sold another bunch of copies through LSI this month which is great! But it’s also driving me... View Article

Busy week ahead

The Horror of Writing Workshop is this Thursday! It would be cool to see some lj’ers there. Get all the... View Article

$$? $$? $$? $$?

I saw something interesting a few days back on tj_crowley’s journal (the person who runs Gothic.net) about how much it... View Article

LSI-POD-HELL

One thing I’ve been worrying about it that Lightningsource/Ingram, our printer/distributor, is instituting a “new stocking strategy”. They used to... View Article

So are the days of the dead…

The bizarre horror issue of The Dream People is now online, go, read. Although this issue was rushed I think... View Article

The Royal family

RDSP calculates royalties at the end of September and the end of March so we spent part of the weekend... View Article

eBay strikes again

If you haven’t heard about it already author Douglas Clegg is auctioning off the limited hardcover rights to his book... View Article

Frantastic

Frantically trying to pull things together for the Halloween issue of The Dream People thanks to last-minute contributions from knowing_carrion... View Article

The Bare Bone fund

Bare Bone #6 will be available in October but unfortunately #5 didn’t sell as well as we’d hoped. We’ve been... View Article

Dos Reviews

Just got in an excellent review from Nancy Jackson, aka horrordiva, for Everybody Scream!. As far as I know it’s... View Article

We need to have a chat

We’re pretty close to getting all the details worked out for another chat on Horror-Web.com. The first one, with John... View Article

I’ve been working on the layout for Play Dead and have been having lots of fun with pips; hearts, diamonds,... View Article

Everybody Scream! was on the Shocklines bestseller list last week and this week too. The Fall of Never is number... View Article

Approaching a small press publisher

Somebody recently asked for our advice on how to approach publishers which got me thinking. I can only speak about... View Article