Confluence • Friday, July 25th This weekend at Confluence we announced the winner of the RDSP Readers’ Choice Award, ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts. Followers of our blog may recall that initially we had 15 books released in 2013 that were eligible and we used an internet poll to narrow that down to the top 8: Cog…

Maria Alexander on Horror Q: Horror seems to be the writing playground of ‘the boys’. What made you chose to write horror or do you feel that you were chosen to write horror? Since I was a wee thing, I have always done “boy” things, it seems. I was attracted to so-called boys’ toys, like…

Jeremy Shipp was recently interviewed by the devil about his book Vacation. The things our authors do for us! Here’s an excerpt: Devil: First of all, let’s get this out of the way. Do you dislike to avoid abstaining from not eating babies? Jeremy C. Shipp: What? D: Just answer the question! JCS: No. D:…

October 25th, Terrault Contemporary • 7:30pm RDSP is celebrating Halloween bizarro style at Terrault Contemporary art gallery in Baltimore and you’re invited! With the impending release of the 20th Anniversary Edition of Grave Markings we’ve got a whole lot of weird to celebrate. John Edward Lawson will be your emcee and there will be readings…

Steve Aylett’s LINT is in the final top 10 of World Book Day’s ‘Spread the Word’ competition. The winner will be chosen by vote so if you want to support LINT (and who wouldn’t) cast your vote: http://www.worldbookday.com/spreadtheword/books/book-detail-top-ten.asp?BookID=70

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