Well, the postal rate increase is way more heinous than I thought. I was shocked to discover that the postal service has based the hike on a proposal by Time Warner which gives mega magazine publishers a big break while charging small publications 2 to 3 times more. This doesn’t affect book publishers as much…

From the Locus site, in Matt Cheney’s “Best of 2005” summary: “Numerous other worthwhile collections appeared in 2005, including Fugue XXIX by Forrest Aguirre, Cultural Breaks by Brian Aldiss, Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender, Greetings by Terry Bisson, Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz, Under the Dam by David Constantine, I Live with You…

I started to try to update my lists at Amazon.com. We’ve released so many books lately that the lists are woefully out of date, so far I’ve only managed to add stuff to the “Books Released by RDSP” list. It’s only a little over a week until the baby is due. It could still be…

Yesterday I updated the web site to announce that we will be publishing an anthology edited by Forrest Aguirre. We’re really excited about this project. There are not many people who get a reputation as excellent editors but Forrest is one of them. Leviathan 3, which he edited, was received very well and #4 is…

I’m a bit behind on things because I didn’t expect to have to do the final read-through of Fugue. I thought I had somebody lined up to do that but it didn’t work out. So John and I split the stories and got it done. Of course we still found mistakes! I hate that, I’ve…

Paul Toth will be appearing on the Red River Writers Live Blog tonight at 8pm (I think it’s EST): http://www.blogtalkradio.com/RedRiverWritersLive