D. Harlan Wilson needs subs for the upcoming Bizarro issue of THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE. Deadline for subs: June 14. "I’ve read some well-written and engaging stories, but few exhibit "different kinds of weird, absurd, horrific, uncanny, and/or grotesque speculative fiction between 250-1000 words," as the guidelines stipulate." Submission guidelines here: http://thepedestalmagazine.com/submitguidelines.php

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…

The Wonderland Awards will be announced at BizarroCon again this year and two of our books have made the ballot: For Best Collection: Sheep and Wolves by Jeremy C. Shipp For Best Novel My Landlady the Lobotomist by Eckhard Gerdes Congrats to both authors!

We interrupt this regular publishing schedule to buy a new car. Not new as in never-owned but new as in new-to-us. The Dodge finally got too expensive to fix so we really didn’t have a choice. Here’s a simple equation that sums up this week so far: new car + baby on the way =…

Excellent review of ARCHITECTURES OF POSSIBILITY at By the Book Reviews: "I am…crowning Lance Olsen’s book as the single best advisory to writers I have ever encountered. This is an absolutely masterful text."

The pics from World Horror Con are up: http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/whc2006.html Thanks to Deena Warner for taking ’em! We weren’t able to attend the con but Michael Arnzen, Darren Speegle and Matt Warner were all there. It was also the launch of the Bizarro Starter Kit with custom brewed bizarro beers on hand to celebrate.