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 Fiction Collection for Soft Apocalypses which RDSP published in 2014. RDSP sees While the Black Stars Burn as something of a sequel to Soft Apocalypses and hopes to build on the momentum of the first book. This new collection is heavily influenced by Lovecraft and...

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 Lawson 1:00 PM African-American Spec-Lit From Afro-Futurism to Beloved John Edward Lawson 2:00 PM Stabbing Through the Glass Ceiling: Advice for Women Writers Starting Out Lucy Snyder 3:00 PM What Editors Are Looking For Now In Horror  Jennifer Barnes 4:00 PM Terrifying Top Trends in Specialty Press Publishing...

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 paperback on 4/23 and receive a $2 discount** Pre-order the Kindle ebook   About the Artist Steven Archer is an artist and musician living near Baltimore, MD. When not recording, DJing, or producing art, he and his wife, author Donna Lynch, tour with their dark...

  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 horror poetry and short stories to novels and illustrations our panelists will make you check under the bed, twice! For up to date info join the Facebook event. Ukazoo Books: Dulaney Plaza Shopping Center, 730 Dulaney Valley Road, Towson, MD To prepare for this event...

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 reading. All titles are available as ebooks and several as trade paperbacks. History of the Press Publisher Eric Campbell describes himself as a fan first and has always enjoyed crime fiction, hardboiled, noir and detective novels. In his search for great reading he befriended a...

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 learned the business while working as a Staff Accountant at a small book factory named Thomson-Shore. I saw the way traditional publishers did business and I thought I could do it better. Honestly, from the outside looking in, publishing looks pretty easy. I was so...

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 material. About the Magazine Apex Magazine is an online prose and poetry magazine of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and mash-ups of all three. Works full of marrow and passion, stories that are twisted, strange, and beautiful. Creations where secret places and dreams are put on display....

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 compelling narratives that feature memorable main characters. We publish books and regularly post original short stories, poems, literary essays and creative non-fiction on our website. What inspired you to go into publishing? Serendipity shined her bright light upon the publisher’s path on a journey he...

Our second publisher spotlight for Small Press Month is the dynamic Valancourt Books. Give a brief overview of what you publish. At Valancourt, we specialize in the rediscovery of rare, neglected and out-of-print fiction. We have a strong focus on horror and supernatural but also bring back classic works of literary fiction. What inspired you to go into publishing? James and I had an interest in rare Gothic literature from early on. We were amazed by the lack of texts available to academic, scholars and general readers. Aside from a handful of titles published by university presses, there was nothing...