A letter to John from Drew Morse, Ph.D. Chair, 2007 Rhysling Poetry Awards: Congratulations. Your poem “Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice” has been nominated for a 2007 Rhysling Poetry Award (in the short form category). The Rhysling Awards recognize the very best speculative and fantastic poetry published during the previous calendar year. This is…

Whew, we just got the shipping confirmation for our order of The Child’s Guide to Death. Unless something freaky happens with UPS we should have the books in time.

  There’s a short but sweet interview with Jeff VanderMeer up on best-selling author Julianna Baggott’s blog.

For all you Shipp fans out there I’ve got two new links. The first is a review of Sheep and Wolves: http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-review-sheep-and-wolves-by-jeremy.html The other is an interview: http://llsoares.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html#879005021953501098

I have been working on catching our ebook releases up through Amazon and Fictionwise. Doing the ones through Amazon is pretty easy. I believe Pseudo-City should be up now and I just submitted Westermead but Fictionwise requires a lot more formatting so I’ve only been able to do Meat Puppet Cabaret because it’s laid out…

Two reviews are out for the forthcoming collection by Jeremy C. Shipp: "The collection is unlike anything I’ve read before and thats where its appeal was, for me.  Each story was unique and the prose is so well done, the words perfectly manipulated to flow almost like poetry.   I was incredibly impressed that such…