Mickey Z. will be doing spoken word during the Astoria Music Now! festival, Sunday, August 21, 3:45-4:00 pm, Hellgate stage. More details here.

A new online one-stop shop for horror is opening up on Halloween—Horror Mall. Shane Staley from Delerium Books and Larry Roberts fro Bloodletting are teaming up on this one. I’m so relieved to see someone trying to fill the void that opened up when so many online book dealers shut down recently. I really don’t…

I’m not sure if we’ll survive this Winter. Ripley has been sick with various colds pretty much every week since October. I thought when we got the antibiotic for a sinus infection that we would soon be on the road to recovery. That was short-lived. Since then he has had another cold and now a…

Today we’re revealing the darkly magical cover created by artist Lynne Hansen for Elizabeth Broadbent’s Southern Gothic novella, Blood Cypress. Hansen has managed to channel both the heart of the book and the atmosphere of the setting. “This cover really captures the essence of the novella—the way the danger and creeping horror of the swamp…

Today we’re revealing the cover for Eugen Bacon’s A Place Between Waking & Forgetting. We were excited to work with Bizhan Kodabandeh from Mended Arrow to create art for the cover of this collection of vibrant stories that will take you many places. PREORDER FOR $4 OFF • COMING SEPTEMBER 19 PREORDER FOR $4 OFF…

Looks like Amazon has decided to do something about people who snag free content from the internet, format it as an ebook and sell it for Kindle. I blogged about this awhile back (http://raw-dog.livejournal.com/245555.html). I figured this kind of thing was behind the email we recently got explaining what type of content is acceptable for…