Wednesday, April 4th • 8 pm EDT Virtual Q&A with Steven Archer and Donna Lynchhosted here by ShinDig (the only thing you need to attend is internet access and Flash) Perhaps best known as the dark electronic rock band Ego Likeness (Metropolis Records), Archer and Lynch have also collaborated on an illustrated book of poetry,…

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't…

Our favorite bookstore, Farley's, got some well-deserved national coverage for their spotlight on indie presses. This is a great article that explains exactly how they do it: Farley’s Bookshop Goes Big With Small Presses.

July 25-27, Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North This year DogCon 3 is being held during Confluence. Many of our authors will be involved in the regular programming. We will also have a rapid-fire reading, announce the winner of this year’s Readers’ Choice award and host an End of the World launch party for Lucy Snyder’s Soft…

PsychologyToday.com features Michael Gills' GO LOVE: Q: You really focus in on the details of your story, Michael, so everything feels utterly real. How do you manage that? Fred Chappell taught me that a writer must know what's going on in the sevendirections at every given instant in the piece: above, below, in front,behind, on…