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Excerpt from Freud: The Penultimate Biography by D. Harlan Wilson I spent years with Tibetan monks so that I could learn how to lower my pulse rate to zero and effectively stop my heart from beating. After awhile people thought I was dead and tried to bury me. Hence the expression: “Everybody’s gravedigger.” The experience was as exhilarating as…

RDSP Blog Series Kit ‘N Kabookle recently included us in a blog series from authors sharing their reader experiences. We were particularly glad to be included since that fits well for our Year of the Reader celebration. Several RDSP authors participated. Here’s a link roundup: Jake Fuchs Scott Thomas Michael Gills K. Ceres Wright Heidi…

Ladies and Other Vicious Creatures Now on Kindle Previously only available as a limited edition chapbook, we’ve now released Donna Lynch’s Ladies and Other Vicious Creatures in an ebook edition on Amazon. This edition does include the interior artwork from Steven Archer as well as a new cover from him. However, the limited edition comes signed and…

Kindle Countdown Deal for SICK Buy the eBook edition of Sick: An Anthology of Illness on sale at Amazon.com   From the Back of the Book Here the pen is not merely mightier than the sword; it is a plague heralding the apocalypse for convention, writing a dirge for complacency. Sick is an anthology compiled by editor…

Announcing 2014 as RDSP’s Year of the Reader We had so much fun celebrating our 10th anniversary all year long in 2013 that we didn’t want to end the party. But we decided we needed something new to celebrate and figured it should be the most important but sometimes forgotten part of the publishing equation—the…

D. Harlan Wilson is back with a trilogy of what, at first glance, appear to be biographies of famous historical figures. Don’t be fooled! They are, in fact, quite entertaining and only historical in a very loose sense of the word. The author failed to fold my laundry in the proper manner, so I am…

RDSP-Related Eligible Works to Consider for Nomination You can vote if you are registered for the World Fantasy Convention this year or were registered for 2012 or 2013. You can nominate up to 5 things in each category, you must nominate in at least two categories. The nomination form is here. Eligible for Nomination to the Ballot:…

Stephanie Wytovich Graduates from SHU’s Writing Popular Fiction Program Huge congrats to RDSP author and poetry editor Stephanie Wytovich on receiving her M.F.A. from Seton Hill University in Writing Popular Fiction. Stephanie is one of the hardest working, enthusiastic and driven people we know, yet she still manages to be fun. We’re  proud to know…

Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler Now Available Where to get your copy: -direct from the publisher -Amazon hard copies -Amazon Kindle –Barnes & Noble Who should be given a second chance at life?  Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface…

Schedule is Tentative and Subject to Change Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler •  January 7th Hitler: The Terminal Biography by D. Harlan Wilson • February 11 Freud: The Penultimate Biography by D. Harlan Wilson • February 25 Douglass: The Lost Autobiography by D. Harlan Wilson • March 11 Wasteland Blues (Dog Star Books)…

RDSP’s Roll Call for 2013 One of our goals for 2013 was to involve more people in the operations of the press. Looking back over the year to assess whether we met our goals it seems that this one might have been our biggest success. We added two editors and two interns plus many Dog…

13 Highlights from RDSP’s 10th Year Dog Star Books, our sci-fi imprint, was successfully launched Despite all odds (the original venue fell through) DogCon 2 was a smashing success Odd Men Out by Matt Betts received a starred review in Booklist and was reviewed in all 3 big review venues (Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist) RDSP was mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter We were…

Until the End of the Year (CLOSED) Get 3 books for $10! We need to make space on our shelves for our coming 2014 releases so now’s your chance to sample several RDSP titles. You’ll get at least 3 books (maybe 4 if we can fit them). Choose a genre (horror, bizarro, science fiction, literary)…

10 things we did in 2013 that we’ve never done before: one of our books received a starred review (Odd Men Out) RDSP was mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter one of our releases was reviewed in all 3 big review venues (Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist) attending Capclave which is in our very own state(!)…

Available now from Guide Dog Books  The Irreal Reader collects the best fiction from The Cafe Irreal Order direct or purchase from Amazon The Cafe Irreal: International Imagination, a pioneering web-based literary magazine, first went online in 1998 with the intention of publishing a type of fantastic fiction most often associated with writers such as Franz Kafka,…

  Of Mice and Men Meets The Odyssey in a Post-Apocalyptic Future Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission–to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of…

COVER REVEAL   Who should be given a second chance at life?  Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted. Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects…

Oct 25-26th, 2013 | Manassas, VA Michael A. Arnzen will be the featured guest writer at the 2013 Horrorfest Fiction Workshop held at NOVA — Northern Virginia Community College – Manassas Campus. A public reading event will be open to the public on Friday, October 25th, followed by a public signing. Books will be available…

Mr. Wicker RDSP is happy to announce that we have signed a deal to release Maria Alexander’s debut novel Mr. Wicker in 2014. Based on a screenplay that placed highly in the prestigious Nicholl competition, Mr. Wicker is an urban fantasy about a woman who is missing a deadly childhood memory. She must find that memory before it…

Saturday, October 19th, 1-6pm • Pittsburgh, PA We’ll be doing a one-day book tour of Pittsburgh with readings and signings at 5 different locations. Come to just one event or hop with us from store to store. Many of these stores will be offering discounts. 1PM Michael Arnzen at Carnegie Mellon Bookstore 5032 Forbes Ave, 15213 2PM Stephanie…

October 11-13, 2013 • Gaithersburg, MD The Raw Dog gang will be at Capclave on panels, doing readings and taking pitches. We will also be launching a Dog Star Books release, Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller! More info can be found at the official Capclave site. Friday Schedule 4:00p So You Want To Be A…

THE SEVENTH EQUINOX by Matthew Warner will debut on November 6th but the pre-order starts today and we’re celebrating with the reveal of the book trailer: “The best part of Warner’s easy-paced, almost pastoral tale is the friction between Bessie’s attraction to Robin, her longing to believe in magic, and her fear of trusting again—all of…

Kicking Against the Pricks Today is the cover reveal for Stephen M. Wilson’s poetry collection Kicking Against the Pricks. We were happy to get artist Steven Archer (EgoLikness.com) to create a very fitting cover! This book is scheduled for release on October 16th but you can pre-order it now! From the Back: First century tillers…

September 27-29, Mount Vernon Place We have a booth at this year’s Baltimore Book Festival Hours: Friday & Saturday noon – 8pm Sunday noon – 7pm For the full schedule of events, directions and parking details be sure to visit The Baltimore Book Festival site. Saturday we’ll have authors K. Ceres Wright, Jason Jack Miller…