horrordiva‘s review of Tempting Disaster is up at Gothic Revue and Midwest Book Review. Here’s a quote from the review, “If you can’t take the heat of this puppy, than you may as well curl up with a blanket and suck your thumb, cause baby, this is going to leave a mark.” I love seeing…

catalogs—check mailing list—check boatload o’ books—check giveaways: sick bags, t-shirts, postcards—check Ok, almost everything is packed for World Fantasy…except our clothes. I think we’re reaching the end of the line with the Sick Bags. We bought 2 or 3 hundred pill bottles and there will probably only be 30 or 40 left after this trip….

There’s a really nice article in Wicked Local about the release of Adam Golaski’s Worse Than Myself. Read the article. I love getting local coverage like this. In our area it’s next to impossible because even the samll-time writers here are best-sellers.

We were contacted yesterday by a German publishing company interested in checking out Meat Puppet Cabaret for possible translation. I managed to get them interested in Terror-Dot-Gov and Dr. Identity as well. It would be really cool to see some of our titles translated.

One thing I’ve been worrying about it that Lightningsource/Ingram, our printer/distributor, is instituting a “new stocking strategy”. They used to keep at least two copies of every book on hand so that the books would be listed as in stock. It’s important for the titles to be in stock because a lot of customers won’t…

Things are moving along with our 2008 releases. We’ve got almost everything together for Tom Bradley’s Lemur which will be out in May/June of this year. Damnation and Salvation in the American Food Services Industry! Spencer Sproul is a would-be serial-killing bus boy who can’t manage to murder, injure, or even scare anybody. He longs…