This blurb just came in for Meat Puppet Cabaret from Michael Moorcock: “I’ve been reading Beard for some time and enjoying his brand of fiction along with other discerning readers with a taste for the visionary. My guess is that Meat Puppet Cabaret is going to be his big breakthrough novel, which will reach the…

So things have calmed down since John’s MySpace account was hacked. Someone sent out a bogus message from his account saying that anyone who’d bought his books was a fool and he was retiring from writing. I don’t think anyone who actually knew John took it seriously but he has been trying to use MySpace…

When we started RDSP we decided not to do any more chapbooks because anything we wanted to publish could be done in book format as an anthology. But there was one lingering project we could only do in chapbook format. It can’t be done through our book printer because the artwork is too detailed. Psych…

Z Malice & Co. are sponsoring a writing contest at the Dark in the Park web site with some very cool prizes. If you’ve drooled over the Z Malice art but haven’t had the money to purchase a Grim Grimoire or any of their other works now’s your chance to let your pen to pay…

I’ve started compiling the video footage from the Backlist Books reading. Here is John Edward Lawson reading "Burning Sylvia Plath’s Bra" from his forthcoming poetry book, SuiPsalms.Yes…he really did do that.