The new issue of The Deam People is now online featuring loads of cool stuff including an excerpt from Discouraging at Best, a story titled “The Ankle-Biter’s Guide to Slithering.” It’s kind of amazing that this RDSP monstrosity grew from The Dream People zine. It’s also cool to see Dale Houstman in this issue since…

Three RDSP titles have been included on the preliminary Bram Stoker Award ballot The Horror Writers Association annual Stoker Award preliminary ballot has been announced, and RDSP titles made it into three different categories: Mr. Wicker by Maria Alexander (Superior Achievement in a First Novel Soft Apocalypses by Lucy A. Snyder (Superior Achievement in a…

The file cabinet and computer desk came yesterday. I spent most the evening setting up the hanging folders and labeling. It’s great no longer having all those piles of paper on the floor! Didn’t get to the desk yet though. I finished reading nihilistic_kid’s book Move Under Ground a few days ago and, as promised,…

The money went out to cover the cost of the Play Dead press run and the Westermead special edition. Unfortunately I didn’t realize that Lightning Source didn’t actually bill our credit card last month so all the orders we’ve been placing for books recently wound up on this bill, almost $4000. It’s too bad all…

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

IMG_1996 Originally uploaded by earsphere722. It’s been a long time since I posted a pic of Ripley and I finally signed up for flickr so I figured I’d test it out.