Author: shaun (Shaun Ledgerwood)

RDSP is looking for a Blog Reviews Manager (Volunteer/Intern) This is an unpaid, volunteer position perfect for a student trying to build a resume in public relations or publishing. It would also be an excellent opportunity for an author who wants to develop a good relationship with reviewers. What we're looking for: -Someone who can...

Win an RDSP T-shirt by showing your love! Simply make a tribute to RDSP, or one of their books, online then send a link to books@rawdogscreaming.com by February 14th to enter. Possible ways to show your love: —Do a book review on Amazon.com or Goodreads.com—Post a picture of yourself with your favorite RDSP book—Blog about...

Raw Dog Screaming Press T-shirts are now available from Skurvy Ink!

RDSP's Top 11 of 2011 1. Farley's Bookshop in New Hope, PA began featuring indie presses including RDSP. The response from customers at Farley's has been tremendous and they now sell more of our titles than any other brick and mortar bookstore 2. Our release of 14 Fictional Positions by Eric Miles Williamson received the...

After reading Heidi Ruby Miller's blog about how her reading groove came back this year I got to thinking about my own reading year. Heidi mentioned that learning the craft of writing and critique had left her struggling to enjoy books and the same had happened to me after the first few years of publishing...

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't...

Larry Fondation was recently interviewed in the Industrial Worker Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Stream-of-consciousness went for the flow of the mind, of thought; I am trying for the flow of action, of events. I don't think most of us – especially in this "Information Age" – live our lives in a smooth and continuous...

14 Fictional Positions by Eric Miles Williamson: Kindle*Airplane Novel by Paul A. Toth: Kindle • NookAnti-Twitter by Harold Jaffe: Kindle*Codename Prague by D. Harlan Wilson: Kindle • NookConrad in Beverly Hills by Jake Fuchs: Kindle • NookCPR for Dummies by Mickey Z.: Kindle*Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp: Kindle • NookDiscouraging at Best by John Edward...

Many authors are waking up this morning to find that their work has been pirated in a giant Christmas themed anthology that can be downloaded at several torrent sites. It includes several of our authors but luckily nothing we've published. I imagine it took a fair amount of work to put this thing together and...

The Inflatable Volunteer by Steve Aylett is now available for Kindle and Amazon Prime members with a Kindle can check the book out from the lending library for free.

RDSP opened for submissions for the first time in six years this September. We weren't sure what to expect but based on our previous experience figured we were in for a lot of easy declines: fan fiction, typo-riddled first pages, works that weren't novels, weren't in our word-length range, weren't in English. Instead we got...

Art Opening: The Verminomicon • December 17, 2011 from 8PMParanormal Books • 627 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712 See the sculpture of Tony DeBartolis inspired by H.P. Lovecraft Also coming in 2012 from RDSP a collaboration between Tony and John Edward Lawson: Verminomicon—A Field Guide to the Vermin of Yuggoth: Abominations of...

Larry Fondation was recently interviewed in the Industrial Worker Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Stream-of-consciousness went for the flow of the mind, of thought; I am trying for the flow of action, of events. I don't think most of us – especially in this "Information Age" – live our lives in a smooth and continuous...

Each pre-order comes with a new, signed original broadside! TERRIFYINGLY TINY. DEVILISHLY DEEP. The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen's poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of the original Gorelets chapbook and his classic “refrigerator of the damned” online magnetic poetry experiment,...

Congrats to Michael Gills whose story, "Leviathan: Monster of the Deep" was recognized as one of 2010's best online stories with The storySouth Million Writers Award. Read the story See the list: Notable Stories of 2010

We are excited to announce that we will be releasing The Blood Poetry by Leland Pitts-Gonzalez in the summer of 2012. This is the first book we have signed from open submissions in years and it really knocked our socks off. For more about Pitts-Gonzalez and the book check out The Blood Poetry web site.

The new issue of The Dream People is now online and includes excerpts from both AIRPLANE NOVEL & GO LOVE, as well as fiction from Lofton Gitt, Cat Rambo and others.

AIRPLANE NOVEL by Paul A. Toth is listed by USA TODAY as one of the top 10 Indie books of 2011! See the full list.

New NOOK editions: You can now get GO LOVE by Michael Gills and LAWSON vs. LAVALLEY by John Edward Lawson & Dustin LaValley for the Nook.

Hellbender is now available for Kindle. We'll be releasing the paperback edition in March. We're so excited to be working with Jason Jack Miller on his Murder Ballads and Whiskey series.

Just got some postcards for GO LOVE. They look pretty nice!

The first ever AnthoCon was a smashing good time. John Edward Lawson and Dustin LaValley debuted their collaboration Lawson vs. LaValley. They particpated in several panels (Psychedelic Fiction, Martial Arts, Minorities in Fiction). Their faux demonstration on fighting zombies was the talk of the weekend. And to cap it all off LaValley received the Hiram...

LAWSON VS. LAVALLEY is now available for Kindle. Apparently the joint reading between John Edward Lawson and Dustin LaValley really rocked AnthoCon and they are likely to have more joint projects together.

Now available for Kindle: “Michael Gills’ vivid, headstrong characters brim with desire, blame,and—most of all—rich storytelling at its heartiest. Gills writes thesaga of the Stepwells with such breadth and depth that their lives seemboth historic and intimate. Go Love is a murderous, tender,swaggering tale that, in the end, is an unwavering argument in favor oflove—the...

Now available for pre-order, or you can pick up a copy at AnthoCon this weekend.