Author: Jennifer Barnes

Raw Dog Screaming Press is thrilled to announce the pre-order availability and cover reveal for Writing Poetry in the Dark, edited by Bram Stoker Award Winning Poet and Editor Stephanie Wytovich. The cover, created by C.V. Hunt, follows the Writing in the Dark brand image. Writing Poetry in the Dark is a craft book for speculative poets, by speculative poets, with a foreword by one of the genre’s most celebrated authors and creator of the Writing in the Dark brand, Tim Waggoner. This book meditates on craft, genre, style, and form as acclaimed SF/F/H poets come together to talk about their process, outlook, and approach to writing and incorporating the speculative into their poems. Preorder now to receive a free Writing Poetry in the Dark sticker “My hope is that…

Cover Reveal for Bram Stoker Nominated Author and Poet Cynthia Pelayo’s Crime Scene Raw Dog Screaming Press is thrilled to reveal the cover for a new dark poetry collection, Crime Scene, by Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo, an International Latino Book Award-winning and two-time Bram Stoker Awards® nominated poet and author. The ethereal, beautiful cover is by artist Don Noble and the collection will publish on October 13, but pre-order is open now. U.S. preorders come with a signed bookplate and limited edition stickerOrder Here "I immediately reached out to Don directly last year after he shared the image,” Pelayo said. “I was still writing the collection, but I needed that image. I needed her, this exquisite, sad thing wasting away there. It represents what I wrote about in Crime Scene, something forever…

We're excited to announce a finalized book deal for Van Essler’s debut novel, Vial Thoughts, to be published in 2023. In Vial Thoughts, which was Essler’s thesis at Seton Hill University, the city of Canimere is buried in the soot of its own slaving factories. Despite the Council's promise of a technological golden Age of Awareness, the constant ashfall coats everything in onyx filth. For a price, Aqua Peritia Cuffs allow anyone to inject knowledge straight into their veins, but information can’t keep the ashen powder from piling up at their doorsteps. Still… there are worse things that settle into the cracks of Canimere. A plague is sweeping through, causing an epidemic of insanity and tainting the city even darker. Ambitious Lenora Leahill wasn’t prepared for all the madness hidden…

Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is thrilled to release the cover for award-winning and highly nominated writer and author Eugen Bacon’s Afro-Irrealist Black speculative fiction collection Chasing Whispers, publishing September of this year. The stunning cover art was created by artist and book cover designer Lynne Hansen. “It’s so important to me that my art convey the style and tone of the book. With Chasing Whispers, I wanted to create something that invoked both a deep sense of longing and a desire to reach up and beyond,” artist Hansen said. “The patterns on the heroine’s back and arms hint at flames and give her a surreal, almost phoenix-like appearance. Eugen’s book will whisk you away to worlds you never realized you needed to visit, and I hope my cover helps you cross…

RDSP at StokerCon This year Raw Dog Screaming Press is a sponsor of StokerCon, authors Michael A. Arnzen, Matt Betts, James Chambers, J.L. Gribble, EV Knight, Daniel Kraus, Jessica McHugh, Lee Murray and Cynthia Pelayo and Brenda S. Tolian will all be on hand while Eugen Bacon and Jezzy Wolfe will participate virtually. Jennifer Barnes will be taking pitches and co-founder John Edward Lawson is a guest of honor. There are too many events on the schedule with our authors to compile everything so instead we've just put together John's schedule as Guest of Honor. Meet Guest of Honor John Edward Lawson • Horror University: Afro-Surrealism in Horror (May 12, 4 PM, Hopscotch 3rd Floor) Despite Black-centered horror going mainstream we have yet to see Afro-Surrealism incorporated widely to amplify aspects of…

Raw Dog Screaming Press is proud to be sponsoring the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference this year. AnnRadCon is held annually in conjunction with the Horror Writer's Association's largest gathering, StokerCon. This year's conference will be a hybrid event and anyone with a ticket for StokerCon can attend AnnRadCon. If you haven't signed up for StokerCon yet there's still time to get a ticket and we highly recommend attending either virtually or in person. While StokerCon's primary focus is fiction, AnnRadCon is a place for writers to explore the cultural importance of horror as a genre. In 2016 Michele Brittany and Nicholas Diak created the Ann Radcliffe Academic Conference to provide horror scholars with a venue to present their work. It's an opportunity for individuals to share completed research or work-in-progress…

Today we're launching the preorder for WRITING IN THE DARK: THE WORKBOOK! This volume is a follow up to 2020's Bram Stoker Award winning guidebook WRITING IN THE DARK. Now Tim Waggoner has put together a book filled with exercises to inspire and elevate your horror writing skills. He's taken the concepts from WRITING IN THE DARK and brought them to life Dr Frankenstein-style. To celebrate the preorder we're offering a FREE PDF DOWNLOAD of several exercises from the book. If you preorder from us (US shipping only) you will receive a limited edition Writing in the Dark sticker or button! We are also announcing the upcoming WRITING IN THE DARK SYMPOSIUM SPRING EDITION, April 28th-May 1st. It's a 3 day virtual event featuring workshops, lectures, extensive networking opportunities, and…

Preorder Girls From the County Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to reveal the cover for Girls from the County by Donna Lynch, which will be released August 2022. It is available for preorder now and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by the author. The cover art was created by acclaimed artist Steven Archer and Donna Lynch with contributions from Sarah Karinja. preorder now Book Description In the county, eerie stillness can be mistaken for stagnation. In the county, rumination on pain and guilt can be confused with omens and curses. In the county, feelings of claustrophobia stem from understanding what the encroaching darkness brings with it. You’ve heard of country girls, and city girls, but what of the forgotten girls from the in-between space of the county? Confronting the things too wild…

Blood Mountain Cover Art by Daniele Serra Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to reveal the cover for Blood Mountain by Brenda S. Tolian, which will be released summer 2022. It is available for preorder now and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by the author and limited edition swag. The cover art was created by acclaimed artist, and British Fantasy Award recipient, Daniele Serra. preorder now About the Book In this mosaic of Southwestern Gothic Horror, a primordial goddess awakens deep within the Sangre de Cristo Mountains. The mountain hungers for revenge as invaders leave her emaciated with their greed and brutality. She cries out for blood, infusing the minds of those who do not belong—twisting them outwardly into the dark forms of their true intentions. This composite novel of…

Girls From the County Coming Later This Year Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is happy to announce a book deal with Bram Stoker Award-nominated author and poet Donna Lynch for her poetry collection, Girls from the County. It’s set to release in 2022. Small towns, farms, open fields, and dark forests—they are all settings of folklore and rural legend. Also, they are locations of the lives of young women in Girls from the County: a poetry collection of true tales of the dark side of growing up rural in the 80s and 90s mixed with the legend, legacies, and tragedies of young county women from generations before.  From her own penned introduction: I’ve changed the names, but these poems are true stories. Some of them belong to me, some belong to…

RDSP Signs Poetry Collection Crime Scene by Award-winning Cina Pelayo Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to announce a finalized book deal for a new poetry collection, Crime Scene, by Cynthia “Cina” Pelayo, an International Latino Book Award-winning and two-time Bram Stoker Award® nominated poet and author. It is set to be published later this year. In Crime Scene, Special Agent K is called to the discovery of the skeletal remains of a child located in a forest. As the investigation unfolds, memory and grueling present are at conflict throughout this poem told in narrative verse, inspired by the classical styles of epic poetry of heroic journeys. Names, dates, people, and events are told in minimalist styles in Crime Scene, as placeholders for all the uncertainties and unknowns which occur during…

RDSP to Publish Writing Poetry in the Dark Handbook for SF/F/H Poets Edited by Stephanie Wytovich Raw Dog Screaming Press is thrilled to announce a book deal for Writing Poetry in the Dark, a craft book for speculative poets, by speculative poets. Edited by Bram Stoker award-winning author Stephanie M. Wytovich, with a foreword by one of the genre’s most celebrated authors, Tim Waggoner, this book meditates on craft, genre, style, and form as acclaimed SF/F/H poets come together to talk about their process, outlook, and approach to writing and incorporating the speculative into their poems. “I’ve had mentees and students asking me about craft books for poetry for years, and while there are tons of fantastic ones out there to recommend, there wasn’t something specifically for speculative poets, which…

RDSP to Publish The Ghost That Ate Us: The Tragic True Story of the Burger City Poltergeist by New York Times best-selling author Daniel Kraus in 2022 You remember this news story, don’t you? Maybe you had read it on Twitter, or a friend sent you a news clip. Maybe you watched an episode on it after flipping through your television one night you couldn’t sleep. True crime fanatics and paranormal investigating enthusiasts certainly will know because they probably haven’t had much sleep since learning about it. Which story you ask? You’ve read and watched so much true crime these days. On June 1, 2017, six people were killed at a Burger City franchise off I-80 near Jonny, Iowa. It was the bizarre end of nine months of alleged paranormal…

Raw Dog Screaming Press invites you to ride shotgun on a weird journey into the dark night. To rev the engine just take a look at the cover revealed below. The journey begins October 14th but you can preorder now. The book is available in hardcover and paperback. All copies ordered from us will come with a signed bookplate. “…the work really sings when its weirdness is married to narrative tropes readers know well. Readers searching for something unexpected will find a lot to admire in this ambitious, inventive collection.” —Library Journal "Bradley Sharp's cover for On the Hierophant Road beautifully captures one of the book's main themes: that something glorious and strange often awaits those who make a passage through darkness. I'm thrilled to have this collection of some…

Raw Dog Screaming Press and Anti-Oedipus to publish Eugen Bacon We are excited to announce that RDSP and its imprint Anti-Oedipus Press have each signed a book from Eugen Bacon to be released in 2022. Chasing Whispers is a stunning and unique collection of short stories to be published by Raw Dog Screaming Press. "In Chasing Whispers, I sought to write a collection of mostly original stories, transformative black speculative fiction of culture, diversity, unlimited futures, a collision of worlds and mythology," says Bacon. It's a boundary stretching collection that doesn't just describe the disjointed modern experience of minorities but makes you feel it. RDSP Managing Editor Jennifer Barnes says, "I was just so impressed with these stories. They are not quite like anything I've read before, at turns poetic…

Exposed Nerves is the forthcoming Poetry Collection by Award-Winning author Lucy A. Snyder Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is pleased to reveal the cover for Exposed Nerves by Lucy A. Snyder, which will be released in late September 2021. It is available for preorder now. and all copies will come with a bookplate signed by the author. The painting used for the cover is by acclaimed artist and illustrator Steven Archer. “I was really struck by Steven Archer's digital painting ‘The World Witch’ and I was glad that RDSP was able to use it for the collection's cover,” Snyder said. “Through its naked female figure, it conveys a mix of the beautiful and the grotesque, the agonizing and the serene, the vulnerable and the powerful, the mundane and the supernatural,…

Raw Dog Screaming Press to Publish Hardcover Attack from the ‘80s Anthology Illustration by Luke Spooner https://carrionhouse.com Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) has signed to publish the hardcover edition of the anthology Attack from the ‘80s, edited by Bram Stoker Award® winning editor Eugene Johnson and featuring over twenty Bram Stoker Award® winning and best-selling authors! Cover and internal illustrations have been done by Luke Spooner. This is just the first of several collaborations with RDSP and Johnson. Approaching soon, the book will be released early fall 2021 and pre-orders are open now! Johnson’s enthusiasm for the decade and the theme, as well as the process of putting this anthology together, shines through. “I grew up in the '80s, having been raised off and on by my grandparents,” Johnson said.…

Set in an alternate near future, Steel Justice is the sixth book in the Steel Empires series and the first time that part of the story is told from the perspective of warrior-mage Kane Nalamas. The world of Steel Empires is one where elves, vampires and shapeshifters co-exist openly with humans and where magic is just another natural force in the world like physics. This installment features magical tattoos, code breaking and robot dogs! Preorder from us and you will get a signed copyPreorder from Barnes and NoblePreorder from Amazon From the Back of the Book Warrior-mage partners Toria Connor and Kane Nalamas have reached the pinnacle of their mercenary career, known far and wide and offered their pick of jobs. Mixing business with friendship, they accept a long-term contract…

Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is honored and thrilled to announce that author and co-founder of RDSP, John Edward Lawson, has been selected as a guest of honor for StokerCon 2022, which will take place in Denver, CO, May 12 to 15 at The Curtis Hotel. Through RDSP John regularly helps authors find their audience, earn award nominations for the Stoker, Wonderland, and World Fantasy Awards, among others, and supports them with tips and tools to better their craft. In 2019 the press was recognized by the Horror Writers Association (HWA) with the Specialty Press Award. Lawson is also founder of AllAccessCon virtual events, Broadkill Writers Resort and workshops, and serves as Vice President of Diverse Writers and Artists of Speculative Fiction. He’s a strong voice for diversity in fiction and…

An amazing thing happened last night: RDSP books took home 3 Bram Stoker awards proving that even after a year of “unprecedented” we still have the capability of being stunned. It was an exciting kick off to see Christina Sng win a second Stoker for poetry with A Collection of Dreamscapes at the very beginning of the awards. Watch Christina Sng's moving acceptance speech We had barely caught our breath when Tim Waggoner received the Stoker for Short Non-Fiction with an article published in The Writer, though we didn’t publish the piece it came out of Tim’s work on Writing in the Dark (which we did publish) so that was cool. However, it made us extra surprised when, about 20, minutes later, Tim ALSO won the Stoker for Non-Fiction with…

Where to find our authors and editors during StokerCon You can register thru Friday! https://hopin.com/events/stokercon Michael A. ArnzenLIVE: Horror After COVID (Friday 11:30 AM)The HWA Archive at the University of Pittsburgh (Saturday 4:00 PM)RECORDED: Steel City HorrorDifferent Publishing Models author reading in Expo and Authors Jennifer BarnesWhat Makes a Good Book Cover (Saturday, 5 PM)Pitches (Saturday beginning at 10 AM) James ChambersLIVE: Professional Etiquette: The Business Side of Writing (Thursday 6:00 PM)Opening Ceremony (Thursday 8:00 PM)The King in Yellow (Friday 6:00 PM)Horror Comics and Graphic Novels (Saturday 4:00 PM)Closing Ceremonies (Sunday 11:00 AM)RECORDED: Beta Reading and Critique Groups, Horror Pods and Blogs Go Viral, Roots of Horror, HWA Chapters: What They Do and How to Start One, author reading in Expo and Authors EV KnightRECORDED: How Extreme is too Extreme?author…