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…

RDSP-Related Eligible Works to Consider for Nomination You can vote if you are registered for the World Fantasy Convention this year or were registered for 2012 or 2013. You can nominate up to 5 things in each category, you must nominate in at least two categories. The nomination form is here. Eligible for Nomination to the Ballot:…

I’ve finally made a significant dent in the Play Dead grimoires needing to be shipped out. Of course all the grimoires aren’t completed yet and there are still quite a few that need to be packaged up and put in the mail. You wouldn’t think it would be so much work to number them and…

Shocklines has started a Bizarro section which features a lot of the RDSP titles plus some great stuff from Afterbirth Books and Eraserhead Press. It’s cool to see this movement growing from that first discussion on John’s LJ so long ago! http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/bizarrostore.html

I’ve been trying to be more active on message boards lately partly as a means of spreading the Raw Dog word and partly just to keep up with who is doing what but sometimes it’s overwhelming. Plus I’m an inveterate lurker and don’t usually like to post. But I did post a giveaway on the…