A Talented Family

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…

"Shipp offers readers a tightly written story of suspense and occult horror…Using Nicholas’s idiosyncratic voice and fondness for lists, Shipp effectively conveys the claustrophobic world of people caught up in events beyond their control." Publisher’s Weekly, (Nov.)

Things have been moving along quite well. The authors have gone over the PDFs for Pseudo-City and Spider Pie and sent back minor changes. We’ve got someone working on the Pseudo-City cover and the preliminary images have been very cool. The ARC’s should be coming for Play Dead in the next couple weeks and I’m…

This has nothing to do with publishing but I woke up this morning, got ready to go and then looked outside to see a big empty space where the car had been parked last night. I’m not sure why anyone would want to steal that seven-year-old Dodge. It’s a fine car but a little worn…

Mike Arnzen’s eye-opening article, “What Corrupted Me” is now up on ReallyScary.com. It amazes me that Mike’s non-fiction is just as fascinating as his fiction. For example his essays in The Goreletter are filled with disgusting tangents and sick images but his point is always well argued and unique. He’s put a lot of thought…