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RDSP Signs J.L. Gribble Raw Dog Screaming press is pleased to announce we have signed a deal to release J.L. Gribble’s debut novel Steel Victory in 2015 under our  imprint Dog Star Books. Originally a thesis novel from Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction graduate program, Steel Victory is an alternate-history urban fantasy. The independent…

July 25-27 • Four Points Sheraton Pittsburgh North Each DogCon has had its own personality and this one was no exception. This time around we worked with Confluence and did a con-within-a-con an approach we hadn’t taken before. Many thanks go to Kevin Hayes and the Confluence crew for making us feel welcome! To open the weekend John Edward…

Confluence • Friday, July 25th This weekend at Confluence we announced the winner of the RDSP Readers’ Choice Award, ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts. Followers of our blog may recall that initially we had 15 books released in 2013 that were eligible and we used an internet poll to narrow that down to the top 8: Cog…

July 25-27, Four Points by Sheraton Pittsburgh North This year DogCon 3 is being held during Confluence. Many of our authors will be involved in the regular programming. We will also have a rapid-fire reading, announce the winner of this year’s Readers’ Choice award and host an End of the World launch party for Lucy Snyder’s Soft…

Cover created by artist Ryan Rice Debuting 9/16 • PRE-ORDER for $2 off Mr. Wicker by Maria Alexander Alicia Baum is missing a deadly childhood memory. Located beyond life, The Library of Lost Childhood Memories holds the answer. The Librarian is Mr. Wicker — a seductive yet sinister creature with an unthinkable past and an agenda just as…

June 26-29 • Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA  Every year Seton Hill hosts a writing workshop that includes classes on various professional writing topics, guest lectures and workshops from industry professionals, pitch sessions a massive book signing (free and open to the public) and a costume ball. This is an excellent way for writers to…

Raw Dog Screaming Press May Update Our May newsletter has gone out but you can get a peek at it here. Back issues are archived in our Press Room. This month we’ve added a new feature, Writer’s Corner from John Edward Lawson, which collects links to exciting author opportunities like grants, residencies and classes. The newsletter is the…

May 30th-June 1st at Uniontown Mall in Uniontown, PA The Pennsylvania Literary Festival will feature industry exhibitors, author appearances, signings, readings, live music, a charity auction, cooking demos, free writing and publishing workshops, storytellers, writing contests, activities for kids, live tapings and interviews with FCTV and GoingLIVE, and a variety of food and beverages. Several…

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…

Congratulations to Dog Star Books author Albert Wendland who was recently named Professor of the Year by Seton Hill University. Wendland received his award during Spring Convocation and was also honored to give the keynote speech. In true writerly fashion he told a story instead. You can read the text of the speech here. Wendland…

We were extremely excited to hear that Publishers Weekly has given The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes by Albert Wendland a starred review and made it the Pick of the Week! This is the first time one of our titles has received a starred review from Publishers Weekly. “In Wendland’s intricately plotted, character-driven debut, pulp…

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE RAW DOG SCREAMING PRESS ACQUIRES ANTI-OEDIPUS PRESS Raw Dog Screaming Press has acquired worldwide rights to publish all future and backlist titles from Anti-Oedipus Press under the imprint of the same name, effective immediately. Dedicated to publishing high-quality fiction and nonfiction, Anti-Oedipus Press was founded in Fort Wayne, Indiana in 2013 by novelist, editor and…

The cover that Bradley Sharp created for ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts is a DaVinci Eye finalist! Congratulations to Bradley Sharp who works hard to infuse every cover he creates for us with the true essence of the book inside. He is also the single force behind the cohesive look and feel of Dog Star…

$11.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935738-64-0 Pre-order here Embrace the Hideous Immaculate is an excursion through nightmarish landscapes, vast alien terrains and shallow earthly trenches. Within these realms of darkness await outer space monstrosities, ancient undead goddesses, serial killer prophets, and revenants from the Deep South and South Pacific. Bram Stoker Award nominee, Chad Hensley, pushes the reader…

  Reader’s Choice Ballot Announced Our Reader’s Choice poll, which narrows the field to 8 candidates, has closed. Now we will call in the 2nd round judges who will read all 8 books and nominate the 3 best. A celebrity judge will choose the final winner.   2nd Round Ballot Winners Announced: Martyrs and Holymen…

Pre-order Now What could draw poet, explorer, loner and paranoid Mykol Ranglen away from the relative peace of his own ring-in-space habitat?  He has no choice in the matter as one by one acquaintances are murdered or disappear altogether. Propelled by ever changing and deepening mysteries Mykol embarks to uncover secrets which could make people rich…

The Biographizer Trilogy Excerpt #3 Read the first 7 chapters of Douglass: The Lost Autobiography (Book #3 in the Biographizer Trilogy) from D. Harlan Wilson here. Buy the book direct, from Amazon or on Kindle You can buy the complete trilogy, signed until Friday, March 13th for a discount here. (Publisher’s Note: The author failed to…

Excerpt from Freud: The Penultimate Biography by D. Harlan Wilson I spent years with Tibetan monks so that I could learn how to lower my pulse rate to zero and effectively stop my heart from beating. After awhile people thought I was dead and tried to bury me. Hence the expression: “Everybody’s gravedigger.” The experience was as exhilarating as…

RDSP Blog Series Kit ‘N Kabookle recently included us in a blog series from authors sharing their reader experiences. We were particularly glad to be included since that fits well for our Year of the Reader celebration. Several RDSP authors participated. Here’s a link roundup: Jake Fuchs Scott Thomas Michael Gills K. Ceres Wright Heidi…

Ladies and Other Vicious Creatures Now on Kindle Previously only available as a limited edition chapbook, we’ve now released Donna Lynch’s Ladies and Other Vicious Creatures in an ebook edition on Amazon. This edition does include the interior artwork from Steven Archer as well as a new cover from him. However, the limited edition comes signed and…

Kindle Countdown Deal for SICK Buy the eBook edition of Sick: An Anthology of Illness on sale at Amazon.com   From the Back of the Book Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it is a plague heralding the apocalypse for convention, writing a dirge for complacency. Sick is an anthology compiled by editor…

Announcing 2014 as RDSP’s Year of the Reader We had so much fun celebrating our 10th anniversary all year long in 2013 that we didn’t want to end the party. But we decided we needed something new to celebrate and figured it should be the most important but sometimes forgotten part of the publishing equation—the…

D. Harlan Wilson is back with a trilogy of what, at first glance, appear to be biographies of famous historical figures. Don’t be fooled! They are, in fact, quite entertaining and only historical in a very loose sense of the word. The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am…

RDSP-Related Eligible Works to Consider for Nomination You can vote if you are registered for the World Fantasy Convention this year or were registered for 2012 or 2013. You can nominate up to 5 things in each category, you must nominate in at least two categories. The nomination form is here. Eligible for Nomination to the Ballot:…

Stephanie Wytovich Graduates from SHU’s Writing Popular Fiction Program Huge congrats to RDSP author and poetry editor Stephanie Wytovich on receiving her M.F.A. from Seton Hill University in Writing Popular Fiction. Stephanie is one of the hardest working, enthusiastic and driven people we know, yet she still manages to be fun. We’re  proud to know…