Small Press Spotlight: Down and Out Books is bringing the hardest of hard-edged crime fiction to a new generation of readers The Down & Out Manifesto We are lovers of quality, well-written stories of crime. We look for and publish great writers … some you’ve heard of, some you haven’t. These are folks you should be…

I don’t know this for a fact but it seems to me that most people successful in the arts usually get there from sheer staying power. It’s nearly impossible to sprint to recognition and success. It’s always a marathon so it would be wise to pace yourself. All the emerging writers I come across, the…

Congrats to David Magitis who has been nominated in the Best Artist category for the British Fantasy Awards. He’s done quite a bit of art for us including the covers for Everybody Scream!, Sick and the chapbook Hell on the Installment Plan plus he’s let us use his artwork for The Dream People too. He’s…

John’s been hard at work getting a lot of our older titles set up as ebooks through LSI. That means they will soon be available on Amazon.com. Recently he’s done A Dirge for the Temporal, The Fall of Never, Spider Pie and Terror-Dot-Gov. There may be more that I can’t remember right now. Although not…

Yesterday I updated the web site to announce that we will be publishing an anthology edited by Forrest Aguirre. We’re really excited about this project. There are not many people who get a reputation as excellent editors but Forrest is one of them. Leviathan 3, which he edited, was received very well and #4 is…

After reading Heidi Ruby Miller's blog about how her reading groove came back this year I got to thinking about my own reading year. Heidi mentioned that learning the craft of writing and critique had left her struggling to enjoy books and the same had happened to me after the first few years of publishing…