Congratulations to Jeremy Shipp whose RDSP novel Cursed is on the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Award in the category of Superior Achievement in a Novel! See the whole ballot The winners will be announced at the World Horror Convention March 25-28 2010, in Brighton, England.

Enter the Frankenverse! From Raw Dog Screaming and The Selected Papers from the Constortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomenon, comes Mary Shelley novella His Unburned Heart by David Sandner. The novella tells the story of what happened after Shelley’s husband, Romantic poet Percy Shelley, was cremated in a funeral pyre on an Italian beach in 1822….

I remember last year at Horrorfind the hotel didn’t allow people to put anything up on the walls which sucks because I could have made some great posters, especially for Dirge. Instead I spent most of yesterday coming up with a 3-sided triangular stand alone piece. It’s not as big as a poster but I…

One thing we learned from Mike Arnzen is when you set up a bookstore appearance always bring your own books just in case. There was a bit of a panic yesterday when Matt Warner discovered that The Bookstack did not have books for the reading on Friday. But not to worry! We’ve got plenty of…

Tomorrow PW hits the stands! Bare Bone #6 has been sent to the printers, now awaiting the proof. I bet it’s going to take them a long time because of everyone else printing books for Christmas. Sent out a bazillion packages yesterday. One went to cakeearthhead, also a copy of The Fall of Never went…

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…