There’s nothing more satisfying than coming up with a cover the author is truly happy with. It took awhile to find the right image but I think I finally got something great for Westermead. Both Scott and his brother Jeff feel it conveys the magic and mystery of Westermead so I’m very excited. I hope…

“Back when I was a schoolboy—wearing sailor suits and eating giant lollipops—I thought the publishing world was a magical place, where writers, readers, publishers, editors, and all the rest danced together in the Mystical Forest of Literary Ecstasy.”—Jeremy Shipp Jodi Lee’s recent interview with Jeremy for Apex Digest is pretty entertaining: http://www.apexdigest.com/Online/interview080201.shtml She also had…

The new issue of Canadian Stories has a review of Fish, Soap and Bonds. It’s a print mag so I don’t have a link but here’s an excerpt: “In the last stretch of Fish, Soap and Bonds the characters find themselves in Hollywood. The narrator knowingly comments on a “plan to build a permanent home…

We had to take Atlanta in to the emergency vet on Wednesday night because she seemed to be in pain. They couldn’t really say what was wrong with her but apparently she’d eaten a whole bunch of leaves and other things outside and her stomach was really full. Unrelated to that we got a call…

There’s a really nice article in Wicked Local about the release of Adam Golaski’s Worse Than Myself. Read the article. I love getting local coverage like this. In our area it’s next to impossible because even the samll-time writers here are best-sellers.

Lately I've been thinking that publishing has become increasingly difficult. RDSP's 10-year anniversary is right around the corner and this is definitely not how I imagined things would be at this milestone. At first I thought I was just tired, burnt-out, in a rut and tried to shake it off. I figured it was not…