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August 2-4, Columbus, OH We as human beings often don’t stop to think about measures of time in relation to our average lifespans. Either an event occurs so long ago that we think of it as history, or it is coming towards us through the aether of the future and often barely registers as “impending.”…

Bexley Public Library Reading Saturday, August 3rd, 4:00-5:30 As part of the DogCon 2 festivities day two will involve a mass Bexley Public Library reading. Come out to see support fantastic fiction from these authors: Michael Arnzen Matt Betts Donna Lynch Heidi Ruby Miller Jason Jack Miller D. Harlan Wilson K. Ceres Wright Stephanie Wytovich…

Friday, August 2nd, 7-9 pm Kafe Kerouac • 2250 N High St  Columbus, OH 43201 Run away and join the RDSP Literary Circus! Our band of merry authors will be reading poetry and short fiction at Kafe Kerouac. Readers include: Michael Arnzen Matt Betts John Edward Lawson Donna Lynch Heidi Ruby Miller Jason Jack Miller K….

To celebrate the cover reveal for Greenshift, the e-book will be temporarily 99 cents at Amazon! A tale set within the world of Ambasadora. Mari’s rare eye color makes her a pariah within Upper Caste society, which is why she prefers plants to people…except David, the former Armadan captain who shuttles scientists around on a…

  THE REVELATIONS OF PRESTON BLACK BY JASON JACK MILLER Coming June 2013 from Raw Dog Screaming Press Cover Art by Brad Vetter Preston and Katy face a new darkness…. Sometimes a battle between good and evil doesn’t look much like the ones they show in movies. The good guys don’t always wear white, and…

These are in no particular order except that #1 was definitely the top: 1. DogCon was legendary and we have the pics to prove it! It was way more fun and went way better than we expected. 2. Plans were laid for a new Science Fiction Adventure imprint, Dog Star Books, with author and editor…

Today is the official launch day for HELLBENDER and I am excited! It's been a long journey to get here. Longer than usual because we had a lot of fun stops on the way. The whole concept of having a book launch on one day is weird to me. Authors are always asking what the…

Raw Dog Screaming Press is quickly approaching its 10th year of publishing so I've been thinking a lot about how much things have changed during the business in those 10 years. For such a long time the same Agent-Publisher model was in place where, in order to be published, authors needed to get an agent…

I've met them before, Seton Hill alum or students. They seem normal (well as normal as authors can be anyway) until you mention the Seton Hill Popular Writing program and they all break out into the same goofy grin. I've been hearing about Seton Hill since we first published Mike Arnzen in 2004. He's on…

Back cover text is one of  the most important elements for selling a book. However writing it is not easy, even for the author, or maybe, especially for the author. If they could have said everything they needed to in a couple of paragraphs then why write a book? Since good back cover text is…

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…

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…

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…

1. RDSP was include in the Huffington Post’s Top 15 Fiesty Presses 2. Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp was a finalist for the Bram Stoker Award 3. Bizarro Day at Backlist Books with D. Harlan Wilson, John Edward Lawson, Andersen Prunty & Michael Arnzen 4. RDSP signed a deal with Chengdou Rights for representation of…

"Shipp offers readers a tightly written story of suspense and occult horror…Using Nicholas’s idiosyncratic voice and fondness for lists, Shipp effectively conveys the claustrophobic world of people caught up in events beyond their control." Publisher’s Weekly, (Nov.)

A Rhapsody for the Eternal (Lettered Edition) The lettered edition of Darren Speegle’s new story collection will be limited to 26 copies (A-Z). An original painting by Steven Archer will be on the cover of each book. No two cover paintings will have the same image but they will all be in the same style…

It turns out there were two honorable mentions for stories for Text:Ur in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror “Bluecoat Jack” by Sarah Totton and “Strangers on a Train” by Tamar Yellin Thanks to who suggested using Amazon’s search inside feature to find the info!

Three stories from Bare Bone #10 received honorable mentions in The Year’s Best Fantasy & Horror 21: “Watching” by Jeremy C. Shipp, “Questionnaire” by Paul Finch and “Red Soil” by Robert Dunbar. Another Shipp story, “Those Below”, which will be part of the forthcoming collection Sheep and Wolves received an Honorable Mention as well. Congrats…

ForeWord Magazine has an awesome review of Blankety Blank in this month’s edition. It’s our first review in ForeWord so we’re very pleased. Take an existential dive into the near-future’s “irreality” before the author sells out to Hollywood over a seemingly inevitable Gamehater movie. Read the full review

And now the video you’ve all been waiting for! This one’s in two parts. If you want skip straight to the shocking “parts” just watch this one:

Icons of Fright will be running a very detailed review of Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades (John’s collection that was put out by Afterbirth Books.) It’s a really cool piece because Scott Lefebvre is the reviewer who best understands where John’s work is coming from. The review isn’t up yet but I’ll post a link…

Our children’s imprint, Imaginary Books, now has a home on the web: http://www.imaginarybooks.net. I threw the site together pretty quickly. I’m happy with the look but, as always, the navigation/organization could be better. Right now there’s not too much content and it’s hard to build a site that can grow.