To tell the truth I haven’t been feeling well for a little over a week now. It’s really cut down on my productivity for everything from RDSP work to house work. I finally heard back from reallyscary.com and they are interested in doing some reviews of RDSP titles and featuring some of our authors. I’ve…

Move over, Beatniks, here are the Bizarros! Four of the leading members of the hottest new literary movement in America will be reading from their at 7 pm, Thursday, July 10, at 1854 W. North Avenue in Chicago, in beautiful Wicker Park. Come meet and hear Bizarro Fiction writers Eckhard Gerdes, D. Harlan Wilson, Garrett…

It turns out there were two honorable mentions for stories for Text:Ur in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror “Bluecoat Jack” by Sarah Totton and “Strangers on a Train” by Tamar Yellin Thanks to who suggested using Amazon’s search inside feature to find the info!

There’s a new issue of Steampunk Magazine available. You can download it for free here or, if you’re really cool, you’ll purchase a hardcopy. This issue has a fabulous interview with but the thing I love about it is that it is so well laid out. I am allergic to zines with horrible layout!

“Back when I was a schoolboy—wearing sailor suits and eating giant lollipops—I thought the publishing world was a magical place, where writers, readers, publishers, editors, and all the rest danced together in the Mystical Forest of Literary Ecstasy.”—Jeremy Shipp Jodi Lee’s recent interview with Jeremy for Apex Digest is pretty entertaining: http://www.apexdigest.com/Online/interview080201.shtml She also had…

Lance Olsen has just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Here's an article on his work and the award.