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The cover that Bradley Sharp created for ODD MEN OUT by Matt Betts is a DaVinci Eye finalist! Congratulations to Bradley Sharp who works hard to infuse every cover he creates for us with the true essence of the book inside. He is also the single force behind the cohesive look and feel of Dog Star…

We have two amazing poetry collections up for pre-order this month. Pre-order both to get $3 off AND a set of our Fridge of the Damned poetry magnets for free! Mourning Jewelry by Stephanie Wytovich Embrace the Hideous Immaculate by Chad Hensley Fridge of the Damned poetry magnets$22 (includes shipping in the U.S.) If you have…

$11.95 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-935738-64-0 Pre-order here Embrace the Hideous Immaculate is an excursion through nightmarish landscapes, vast alien terrains and shallow earthly trenches. Within these realms of darkness await outer space monstrosities, ancient undead goddesses, serial killer prophets, and revenants from the Deep South and South Pacific. Bram Stoker Award nominee, Chad Hensley, pushes the reader…

Cover Reveal: MOURNING JEWELRY by Stephanie Wytovich This poetry collection is the follow-up to Wytovich’s Bram Stoker nominated collection, Hysteria. Both covers were painted by artist Steven Archer. Mourning Jewelry is scheduled to be released May 8th but you can pre-order now.   Mourning is the new black… The tradition of Victorian mourning jewelry began with…

  Reader’s Choice Ballot Announced Our Reader’s Choice poll, which narrows the field to 8 candidates, has closed. Now we will call in the 2nd round judges who will read all 8 books and nominate the 3 best. A celebrity judge will choose the final winner.   2nd Round Ballot Winners Announced: Martyrs and Holymen…

Narrowing the Field Once our Reader’s Choice Poll selects 8 books for judging we’ll need the help of some readers to come up with the top 3 candidates. Below is a list of our 2nd round judges. Once they’ve decided on the top 3 candidates we’ll bring in a celebrity judge to pick the winner….

Pre-order Now What could draw poet, explorer, loner and paranoid Mykol Ranglen away from the relative peace of his own ring-in-space habitat?  He has no choice in the matter as one by one acquaintances are murdered or disappear altogether. Propelled by ever changing and deepening mysteries Mykol embarks to uncover secrets which could make people rich…

The Biographizer Trilogy Excerpt #3 Read the first 7 chapters of Douglass: The Lost Autobiography (Book #3 in the Biographizer Trilogy) from D. Harlan Wilson here. Buy the book direct, from Amazon or on Kindle You can buy the complete trilogy, signed until Friday, March 13th for a discount here. (Publisher’s Note: The author failed to…

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…

We need your help! We are launching a Reader’s Choice Award for RDSP titles first published in 2013 (excludes reprints) but we need to narrow down the field. Help us by choosing up to 3 books that you think should be consider for the award. This round of voting will narrow the field down to…

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…

Chapter 5 • Hitler: The Terminal Biography by D. Harlan Wilson buy direct      buy from Amazon      buy ebook “I’m on the ledge! I’m going to kill myself!” I was in fact on a ledge and I had a knife. But I had no intention of committing suicide. She broke up with me and I…

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:…

Timed discount for Anti-Twitter ebook We’re currently running a deal on the Kindle edition of Anti-Twitter: 150 50-Word Stories by Harold Jaffe. It’s just .99 cents today, if you miss it the price will go up but it will still be discounted until Friday: download here. About Anti-Twitter These 50-word stories are based on “found”…

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…

Timed discount for Health Agent ebook We’re currently running a deal on the Kindle edition of Health Agent by Jeffrey Thomas. It’s just .99 cents today, if you miss it the price will go up but it will still be discounted until Friday: download here. Health Agent is a novel set in Jeffrey Thomas’ trademark…

You can enter to win a signed copy of Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler. This novel has just been released by our Science Fiction imprint, Dog Star Books and received a starred review from Booklist. People in ALL COUNTRIES are eligible to enter the contest. Goodreads Book Giveaway Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S….

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…