A Talented Family

We got a request from Tim Janson, who is a top 100 reviewer over at Amazon.com, for some review copies of books. He’s already posted a review for Bare Bone #5 and Spider Pie He does a good job of reviewing and cross posts his reviews to B&N and a few other sites. It’s really…

We took a short spontaneous vacation on Tuesday evening and Wednesday. It’s hard to plan getaways because we never know when we’re going to be busy so it worked well just to take off on the spur of the moment. One piece of news that has kept me happy for days is that we were…

I just discovered that Matt Staggs who used to be involved in the ultra cool SkullRing.org now has his own blog and boutique publicity company. I found his entry on Book Publicity Tips to be particularly interesting. The whole blog is cool, especially if you’re into books, so I definitely recommend checking it out: http://entertheoctopus.wordpress.com

Looks like Amazon has decided to do something about people who snag free content from the internet, format it as an ebook and sell it for Kindle. I blogged about this awhile back (http://raw-dog.livejournal.com/245555.html). I figured this kind of thing was behind the email we recently got explaining what type of content is acceptable for…

There is an awesome study of Lemur up at Unlikely Stories, by Jonathan Penton When Spencer Met Hannibal: Recreational Cannibalism in the New American Century. Here’s an excerpt: “[Spencer] is the shadow following every American youth; too pathetic to be an Everyman, he is nonetheless what Everyman sees when we look in our bathroom mirrors…

First blurb is in for Horror is Not a 4-Letter Word: Witty, edgy, and on-the-mark, Matthew Warner shares an insider’s view of the Wide World of Horror, from writing horror fiction to the misconceptions of outsiders to finding the “fun in morbidity” right in one’s own backyard. —Elizabeth Massie, Bram Stoker winning author of Sineater,…