Got some great news yesterday from Darren Speegle. Ellen Datlow has recommended his story, Illusions of Amber, for the next Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror! The story was originally published in Underworlds but is also included in Dirge. I guess she still has to make her final decision about which stories will be reprinted and…

Congrats to Jeremy Shipp whose novel, Vacation, has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award in he category of first novel. Jeremy’s book has caused such a stir from so many different quarters that it’s a bit bewildering. In fact I just got an email from a reviewer who was very…

Small press month continues with a spotlight on science fiction publisher Apex Publications Overview of Apex Apex Publications encompasses Apex Book Company, which offers a broad selection of books, and Apex Magazine, an online pro-zine published monthly. Apex’s mission is provide quality stories for fans of genre fiction and to support budding authors through reference…

One of Jeremy Shipp’s stories from Sheep and Wolves, “Camp”, is up on Pseudopod. If you haven’t heard of Pseudopod it’s a horror podcast magazine that does an excellent job of presenting short fiction in mp3 format. You can check out Jeremy’s story here: http://pseudopod.org/2009/05/15/pseudopod-142-camp/ It’s extra creepy in stereo!

Schedule is Tentative and Subject to Change Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler •  January 7th Hitler: The Terminal Biography by D. Harlan Wilson • February 11 Freud: The Penultimate Biography by D. Harlan Wilson • February 25 Douglass: The Lost Autobiography by D. Harlan Wilson • March 11 Wasteland Blues (Dog Star Books)…

The Kindle edition of VACATION is now on sale for $2.99 at Amazon.