Paul Toth will be reading from AIRPLANE NOVEL this Sunday at 2pm in commemoration of 9/ll at BookStore1Sarasota, 1359 Main Street,Sarasota, FL.

I’ve been working on a chapbook of poems by Donna Lynch titled Ladies and Other Vicious Creatures. We’ll be using it to promo her novel Isabel Burning. I like doing layout for boutique projects like this because there’s lots of space to make things look real spiffy. Plus it has great illustrations from artist Steven…

Today we’re revealing the cover for the second book in our novella series, The Selected Papers for the Consortium for the Study of Anomalous Phenomena. Yes, it’s a mouthful! Lynne Hansen has done a wonderful job capturing the gritty background for L. Marie Woods’ strange tale. PREORDER NOW TO GET $1 OFF YOUR SIGNED COPY…

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…

More video from the Backlist Books event: "The Storyteller" was absolutely hilarious!

Finally the layout for our second book, Sick, is complete! After a huge sigh of relief I began to contemplate the totally thankless nature of book layout. If you do it right, no one should notice. The recent boom in self and small press publishing has been great for variety but is often hard on…