Wytovich is the new Readers Choice Champ As part of DogCon IV, RDSP’s annual press party, we announced the winner of our 2nd annual Readers Choice Award. Mourning Jewelry, Stephanie M. Wytovich’s poetry collection from 2014, was the winner. We were lucky to have inaugural champion Matt Betts in attendance to pass the belt on….
K.W. Taylor Release Scheduled for 2016 RDSP is happy to announce that we’ve signed K.W. Taylor’s time travel novel The Curiosity Killers for release in 2016 under the Dog Star Books imprint. K.W. Taylor is the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series, about a dragonslaying disc jockey (The Red Eye and The House…
The Darkness Revealed Daniele Serra’s magnificent representation of the evil smoldering in the darkness of a small town is the perfect match for Andy Deane’s slow burning vampire apocalypse. Coming October 24th • pre-order now All the Darkness in the World will debut at DogCon (free and open to the public) in Philadelphia on…
What is DogCon? Every year RDSP throws a big shindig to celebrate books, authors and all our supporters. It’s a chance for the RDSP family to get together, meet each other, show off the latest works and begin new creative ventures. This year’s DogCon (IV) is being held in Philadelphia and promises to be the…
Baltimore Book Festival • September 25-27 Both John Edward Lawson and K. Ceres Wright will be on panels held at the SFWA tent during the Baltimore Book Festival. Here’s the schedule: Friday, Sept. 25, 2 pm • Blurring the Edges of Genre Writers of literary science fiction, poetry, horror, slipstream and weird fiction…
Confluence • July 24-26 Confluence is Pittsburgh’s premier Science, Fiction & Horror literary conference and this year it’s at the Doubletree by Hilton Cranberry. Three of our Dog Star authors, J.L. Gribble, Albert Wendland & K. Ceres Wright, will be on hand participating in panels, signing books and even doing their own kaffeeklatsch. Here’s their…
June 26, 7-9pm • Greensburg, PA As part of their writing workshop Seton Hill University hosts a massive author signing every June. Though you have to register for the workshop the signing is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This is the 4th year that Raw Dog Screaming Press and its imprint Dog Star Books…
Unveiling the Rainbow Artist Steven Archer has created a raw, textured cover to match B.E. Burkhead’s gritty, and unapologetic realism. In this poetry collection Burkhead shows readers what happens when they take off their rose-colored glasses and look at the world around them. Instead of fields of freshly grown flowers, he writes of alleys with…
The votes are in! The readers have voted and picked the books that will go on to the final ballot. The vote was supposed to choose the top 4 books, however, we had a tie for fourth place which resulted in 5 books moving on to the final ballot. These books will be read and…
So far we have hosted two writing retreats, both held at Bourbon Ridge in Hocking Hills, OH. I learned a lot about hosting writing retreats during our first one but there were new lessons discovered during the second. Here are a few of them: Every group is different Our second retreat had a totally different…
5-20-15 • Continuing a Successful Publishing Relationship Raw Dog Screaming Press is pleased to announce that it has signed a deal with Lucy A. Snyder to publish her next fiction collection titled While the Black Stars Burn. This deal comes on the heels of Snyder receiving the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a…
RDSP has had a few brushes with the Bram Stoker award in the past: 100 Jolts was a finalist for fiction collection in 2004, The Troublesome Amputee for Poetry Collection in 2006, Cursed was a finalist for novel in 2009 and Hysteria for poetry collection in 2013. I’d long ago learned to be happy with…
RDSP authors and editors will be attending this year’s World Horror Convention in Atlanta, GA. Here’s our schedule for the weekend: Thursday 8 PM Degrees of Dread: Horror Goes to College Michael Arnzen, Lucy Snyder Friday 9:00 AM Poe-etics: Setting Scene and Atmosphere in Supernatural Fiction Michael Arnzen 11:00 AM We Are Bizarro! John Edward…
Steven Archer’s cover for An Exorcism of Angels Today we’re revealing the cover and launching pre-orders for An Exorcism of Angels, the latest poetry collection by Stephanie Wytovich. Because she feels writing this book saved her life Stephanie has pledged to donate $1 out of every pre-order to SAVE: Suicide Awareness Voices of Education. **Pre-order the…
Meet Jeff Burk from Deadite Press March was Small Press Month, and during that time we ran a series featuring many of the other independent publishers in operation. These small press spotlights were so popular that we have decided to continue them as a regular feature, and today we bring you Jeff Burk of Deadite…
Andrea Marie on Horror Q: How did you first get into acting and modeling? Which do you prefer? I have always aspired to do both, but modeling came first when a photographer friend and I decided to put a portfolio together in 2006. Then in 2011, I started building up film and television contacts and it sort…
Omnium Gatherum Books joins us to discuss publishing as part of the Small Press Month celebration. Give a brief overview of what you publish. Omnium Gatherum publishes dark fantasy, weird fiction and literary thrillers. When selecting titles, I look for characters with distinct voices. Most have an unexpected point of view or explore a mythology…
Joining us for today’s Small Press Spotlight is Canadian publisher Dream Write Publishing. Give a brief overview of what you publish. Dream Write Publishing prides itself on publishing a wide range of genres from children’s picture books to poetry to fiction and non-fiction novels. We hold true to our mandate of aiding authors to realize…
We had scheduled this panel discussion in February for Women in Horror Month but it was postponed due to a snowstorm. However any month of the year is a good time for a Q&A with some of the most creative minds in the field, so we hope you’ll come out and join us. From…
Small Press Spotlight: Down and Out Books is bringing the hardest of hard-edged crime fiction to a new generation of readers The Down & Out Manifesto We are lovers of quality, well-written stories of crime. We look for and publish great writers … some you’ve heard of, some you haven’t. These are folks you should be…
Today’s spotlight is on Rooster Republic, a relatively new press in a relatively new genre, Bizarro. Give a brief overview of what you publish. Mostly bizarro but we’ve also dabbled in poetry and horror. As long as it’s strange (and good) it has a home at Rooster. What inspired you to go into publishing? I…
Small press month continues with a spotlight on science fiction publisher Apex Publications Overview of Apex Apex Publications encompasses Apex Book Company, which offers a broad selection of books, and Apex Magazine, an online pro-zine published monthly. Apex’s mission is provide quality stories for fans of genre fiction and to support budding authors through reference…
Publisher of the unexpected Anti-Oedipus Press joins us to discuss publishing in our Small Press Month series. Give a brief overview of what you publish. Anti-Oedipus Press is a publisher of literary “schiz-flows” that aspire to chart new boundaries in narrative and theory. Taking our cue from the poststructuralist writings of Deleuze and Guattari, AOP…
To continue our celebration of March being Small Press Month we shares some thoughts from Kriscinda Lee Everitt, founder of Despumation Press. Give a brief overview of what you publish. This is a little difficult, because we’ve only really just started. We began with a journal (Despumation) of short fiction and poetry based on, or…
The third entry in our Small Press Month series is the unusual literary publisher Atticus Books. Give a brief overview of what you publish. Our mission at Atticus Books is to deliver a first-class experience to the reader. Period. We specialize in genre-busting literary fiction—i.e., titles that fall between the cracks of genre fiction and…
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