The first review for Welcome to Oakland is in. I’m expecting many more but this one really gets to the heart of why I love the book. “Eric Miles Williamson’s Welcome to Oakland is the book the Beats would have written if their privileged upbringings hadn’t sent them to the Horace Manns and Columbias of…

Enter the Frankenverse! From Raw Dog Screaming and The Selected Papers from the Constortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomenon, comes Mary Shelley novella His Unburned Heart by David Sandner. The novella tells the story of what happened after Shelley’s husband, Romantic poet Percy Shelley, was cremated in a funeral pyre on an Italian beach in 1822….

Just set up a pre-order for a chapbook written and illustrated by Steven Archer: Red King Black Rook is a steampunk fable for the modern age. It tells the story of a king’s court and what happens when a crafty avian advisor, the Rook, gains the king’s ear. Written and illustrated by Steven Archer it…

The main purpose for attending a con is to meet people and we sure met a lot of them. Between the two of us John and I covered a lot of ground. Some people John had met at last year’s conference, most were new to me. I can’t possibly write about them all but I…

The office is progressing nicely. I put the new desk together last night but haven’t set the computer up on it yet. Also called up Apple support to get some help networking the computers. It turned out my old machine was missing some important pieces necessary for file sharing which required a reinstallation of the…

I’ve started compiling the video footage from the Backlist Books reading. Here is John Edward Lawson reading "Burning Sylvia Plath’s Bra" from his forthcoming poetry book, SuiPsalms.Yes…he really did do that.