LIBRARY JOURNAL, September: "In his first short story collection, Williams (Degenerate) shows a darkly comic sensibility more akin to that of the filmmaking Coen brothers (think Barton Fink) than to more obvious literary influences. His swift, choppy dialog (no quotation marks), quickly shifting scenes, and peculiar interest in archaic religious weaponry (armor, swords, and shields)…

Royce Icon has made a short film inspired by John’s poem “Raw Dog Screaming” which, of course, is also the inspiration for the name of our company. I guess John’s just an inspiring type of guy. Here’s the movie: I also had to laugh reading this critique of the interview d_j_l did with John: “Interview?…

It’s been announced that ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts is a finalist for the Eric Hoffer Award. Less than 10% of the titles under consideration become finalists so we’re quite honored that it received this recognition You can see a complete list of winners here. In addition, the cover that Bradley Sharp created for…

"… Bradley Sands understands how to write genre fiction (bizarro, new absurdist, splatterpunk, et cetera) while not forgetting that genre literature is still literature – these stories are not simple plot hacked open with violence but instead adjective stuffed phrases that twist in milked description." —Big Other

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…

Did some correspondence with authors and sent out some postcards about our books and other promo materials this weekend. One thing we’ve been working on is getting blurbs for A Dirge for the Temporal. I don’t know what it is but it’s like pulling teeth for me to ask strangers for the favor of a…