*sizzle* John (rdsp) has really been burning up the livejournal lately. He’s been adding people left and right and posting to his own journal plus commenting on other people’s. LJ is a pretty huge community but I’ve never been good at stirring things up the way he is. I read a lot of people’s journals…

Confluence • Friday, July 25th This weekend at Confluence we announced the winner of the RDSP Readers’ Choice Award, ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts. Followers of our blog may recall that initially we had 15 books released in 2013 that were eligible and we used an internet poll to narrow that down to the top 8: Cog…

So apparently the Quimby’s Bizarro Fiction event last week went really well. There are a bunch of videos up on YouTube where you can catch both D. Harlan Wilson and Eckhard Gerdes reading. These guys are both excellent readers so it’s worth checking out. The video is in 6 parts so you can start with…

I’ve got the pics up from HorrorFind now. It really was a blast. The new convention center is great and having it so close to home made it a lot easier for us. I was worried about the crowd since it was in a new place and though it was smaller than the usual August…

The first review for Welcome to Oakland is in. I’m expecting many more but this one really gets to the heart of why I love the book. “Eric Miles Williamson’s Welcome to Oakland is the book the Beats would have written if their privileged upbringings hadn’t sent them to the Horace Manns and Columbias of…

It’s The Raw Dog Screaming Duo!! So far it seems like the contributors to Tempting Disaster are into the release. John had the antho completed for a long time so the news of its release came out of the blue for the authors. Unfortunately John often gets way ahead of his time and he’s put…