There’s an interesting article over at the Small Press Reviews blog discussing how modern writers depict the poor and how the underclass is mostly absent from modern works. The essay talks about both Welcome to Oakland and Unintended Consequences. RDSP authors get points for addressing the issue but get knocks for being too angry. For…

  Reader’s Choice Ballot Announced Our Reader’s Choice poll, which narrows the field to 8 candidates, has closed. Now we will call in the 2nd round judges who will read all 8 books and nominate the 3 best. A celebrity judge will choose the final winner.   2nd Round Ballot Winners Announced: Martyrs and Holymen…

Maria Alexander on Horror Q: Horror seems to be the writing playground of ‘the boys’. What made you chose to write horror or do you feel that you were chosen to write horror? Since I was a wee thing, I have always done “boy” things, it seems. I was attracted to so-called boys’ toys, like…

Been working overtime on pulling The Dream People together. The pieces are all formatted now I’m just waiting for Vincent to send the art. It looks like D. Harlan Wilson will make it to our July 10th reading event at The Neptune Gallery. It will be cool to see him again! We are still car-less….

Available now from Guide Dog Books  The Irreal Reader collects the best fiction from The Cafe Irreal Order direct or purchase from Amazon The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination, a pioneering web-based literary magazine, first went online in 1998 with the intention of publishing a type of fantastic fiction most often associated with writers such as Franz Kafka,…

Bare Bone #6 will be available in October but unfortunately #5 didn’t sell as well as we’d hoped. We’ve been working on ways to make sure we’ll be able to continue putting Bare Bone out and have started selling a few ads in the back of the book. This will at least help offset the…