Congrats to Jeremy Shipp whose novel, Vacation, has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award in he category of first novel. Jeremy’s book has caused such a stir from so many different quarters that it’s a bit bewildering. In fact I just got an email from a reviewer who was very…

This weekend RDSP publicity manager Jaym Gates and author Adam Golaski will be in the dealer’s room at Readercon. Be sure to stop by and say hello. There will be a raffle for all kinds of RDSP goodies including free books, a DVD and a T-shirt.

CONRAD IN BEVERLY HILLS is now available for Kindle.

SkullRing.org does it again. Check out this very cool interview with Ron Malfi http://mattstaggs.blogspot.com/2007/01/interview-with-ronald-damien-malfi.html Thanks to d_j_l for doing the honors.

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't…