Author: shaun (Shaun Ledgerwood)

Raw Dog Screaming Press signs Jason Jack Miller RDSP is pleased to announce a multi-book deal with author Jason Jack Miller for his Murder Ballads & Whiskey series. The first book to be released, Hellbender, will come out in March 2012 with The Devil and Preston Black to follow at the end of the year....

You can now pre-order: Lawson vs. LaValley will debut this weekend at AnthoCon. John Edward Lawson and Dustin LaValley will be in attendance to launch the book. Here's their schedule of events: Nov 11 – 13 AnthoCon • RDSP will be in the dealer's room all weekend Nov 12 • 10AM Psychedelic Fiction (Dustin LaValley...

We just received the official letter saying that Eric Miles Williamson will be receiving a PEN Oakland-Josephine Miles Literary Award for 14 Fictional Positions. It's an award that was "created to honor writers of exceptional works often not acknowledged by the mainstream literary community." We’re thrilled to see Williamson’s work recognized in this way and...

GO LOVE is now available and on sale through Amazon for more than 20% off. Ignore the extraordinary shipping time listed, it will only take a few days to fill the order.

John Edward Lawson was recently featured on Heidi's Pick Six.

Tonight is the next stop on Michael Gills' book tour for GO LOVE: NOV 3 • 7PMUNCG Faculty Center on College AvenueUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroGreensboro, NC

PsychologyToday.com features Michael Gills' GO LOVE: Q: You really focus in on the details of your story, Michael, so everything feels utterly real. How do you manage that? Fred Chappell taught me that a writer must know what's going on in the sevendirections at every given instant in the piece: above, below, in front,behind, on...

Thanks to Sharon Moran we've got some great pictures from the GO LOVE launch party this past weekend at The King's English Bookshop in Salt Lake City. See all the photos here.

Tomorrow is the official launch of GO LOVE at The King's English Bookshop. All royalties from this event will be donated to the Salt Lake Arts Academy as a general scholarship fund for the 8th grade science trip to the Tetons. More details here.

SPIKE ran a great review of LINT: The Movie. Here's an excerpt: "Appropriately disrespectful of power, institution and instruction, Aylett is a writer who makes it look as if he is at play, before cunningly twisting on you with sudden twists of truth which make Lint, in all his forms (man/book/movie), true originals." Read the...

The GO LOVE launch party is this Friday followed by a book tour: Help Michael Gills celebrate the release of his first novel GO LOVE: OCT 28 • 7pmGo Love launch party, King's English Bookshop1511 South 1500 EastSalt Lake City, UT 84105 NOV 3 • 7PMVisiting Writer ReadingUNCG Faculty Center on College AvenueUniversity of North...

LIBRARY JOURNAL, September: "In his first short story collection, Williams (Degenerate) shows a darkly comic sensibility more akin to that of the filmmaking Coen brothers (think Barton Fink) than to more obvious literary influences. His swift, choppy dialog (no quotation marks), quickly shifting scenes, and peculiar interest in archaic religious weaponry (armor, swords, and shields)...

The Small Press Fest this weekend was great! Below are a few pics from the event, the rest are posted to the RDSP website.

John Edward Lawson, Michael Arnzen and Jennifer Barnes will all be attending the Frostburg Small Press Fest tomorrow. We'll be selling books at the book fair and are on several panels including script writing, children's books and self-promoting.

You can now pre-order Michael Gills' GO LOVE through our website. Josephine Stepwell Harvell is certainly not lucky in love; from BuddyWasher, the Arizona mistake, who got her pregnant and then got arrestedtrying to smuggle weed in the belly of a Santa Claus suit, to O.W., atruck driving brawler who pawns everything including her sewing...

To celebrate Halloween we're putting the Kindle edition of EVERYBODY SCREAM! by Jeffrey Thomas on sale for .99 cents until the end of October.

Michael Gills will be doing a book tour in support of Go Love. Here's info on one of the stops: Thursday, November 3rd, at 7:00 PM Michael Gills Fiction Reading | UNCG – MFA Writing Program

Our favorite bookstore, Farley's, got some well-deserved national coverage for their spotlight on indie presses. This is a great article that explains exactly how they do it: Farley’s Bookshop Goes Big With Small Presses.

There were some great photos from Paul A. Toth's reading on 9/11 at Bookstore1Sarasota. You can view them all here.

"THE COFFIN BALL" Art Show & Masquerade Location: Talleyville Frame Shoppe Gallery & Gifts Time: ‎5:00PM Friday, October 7th BETTER HAUNTED HOMES & GARDENS artist Kristen Margiotta is part of another great art show. If you're near DE on Oct 7th definitely check it out.

This week only get Paul A. Toth's AIRPLANE NOVEL ebook for only .99 cents for Kindle and for Nook.

Paul Toth will be reading from AIRPLANE NOVEL this Sunday at 2pm in commemoration of 9/ll at BookStore1Sarasota, 1359 Main Street,Sarasota, FL.

After many years of being closed to submissions, RDSP is accepting subs for novels that are 40-85k words long. For all the details on how to submit visit our guidelines page.

We’re looking to sell off a bunch of display copies. These books have minor imperfections and shelf wear but nothing that effects the interior. Imperfections are typically scratches, creases or nicks in the covers. While supplies last. Check out the inventory here.

We're looking forward to attending the Western MD Small Press Fest again this year and excited that Michael A. Arnzen will be there too. We'll be on panels and selling books at the book fair. It will be Saturday, October 15th 10:30 to 4:30. If you're in the Frostburg, MD area come out and say...