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I recently had to write a little description about RDSP and was surprised at how much there was to say about our press. I guess I don’t normally think about how far we’ve come, just how much further there is to go. The Dog’s Pedigree Raw Dog Screaming Press was founded in 2003 by John…

Just got the first blurb in for Worse Than Myself: “A strong collection with enough variation to keep readers riveted from the first story to the last. Worse Than Myself has the impulses of traditional horror but keeps things a little more open, inflecting the forms we’re familiar with and making them startlingly fresh again.”…

I’ve been trying to get a better handle on what’s been going on in the bizarro scene and also trying to partner with other bizarro authors to spread the word. So I recently read Andersen Prunty’s Overwhelming Urge and wrote a review of it: The Overwhelming Urge has a certain underlying rhythm to it, like…

Anybody got the inside scoop on this: http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/ It would seem to be in direct competition with the Stoker awards. I’ve got my theories but I’m just curious where this came from and whose idea it was. I guess it’s good to have another place to submit our books, so far we haven’t been too…

Congrats to Jeremy Shipp whose novel, Vacation, has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award in he category of first novel. Jeremy’s book has caused such a stir from so many different quarters that it’s a bit bewildering. In fact I just got an email from a reviewer who was very…

Jeremy Shipp’s novel Vacation is up for the best Horror novel of 2007 over at the Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll. If you want to cast your vote here’s a link: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelh.shtml You can also vote for Jeremy as your favorite author of 2007 (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml) and even Raw Dog Screaming Press as best publisher (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ebookpublisher.shtml)….

I just found out about a cool online zine running weird and scary short tales. Check it out: http://www.midnightinhell.com

A new online one-stop shop for horror is opening up on Halloween—Horror Mall. Shane Staley from Delerium Books and Larry Roberts fro Bloodletting are teaming up on this one. I’m so relieved to see someone trying to fill the void that opened up when so many online book dealers shut down recently. I really don’t…

The Oregonian recently ran an interesting article, mostly about Eraserhead Press but also covering bizarro in general. It’s cool to see the genre getting more press. http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonian/stories/index.ssf?/base/living/1190672708176070.xml&coll=7&thispage=1 Don’t forget we’ll be at the Baltimore Bookfest this entire weekend! I hope some of you locals will stop by. Rumor has it will be in attendance.

Jeremy Shipp’s signing for Vacation at the end of last month went really well. Vacation was the store’s bestseller of the week due to the interest generate by the signing. I’ve finally gotten some pictures of the event up here: https://rawdogscreaming.com/redlands.html I wish I could take some credit for this event but Jeremy set it…

A Bizarro angel named Shelby has offered to start up an RDSP book club in Arizona. I’m really excited about the possibilities. If we could get book clubs to catch on it would be a great way to spread the word about our books. I’m even envisioning sending our authors out on book club tours….

The Troublesome Amputee has made it onto the final ballot for the Stoker. Now I have to arrange for John to get to Toronto for the banquet. I’m so proud of him!

Text:Ur will be reviewed in a March issue of Publisher’s Weekly: Fantasy fans looking for familiar themes and names among the 20 stories in Aguirre’s boldly original anthology will be disappointed. Those who like experimental fiction that’s not always readily accessible will be richly rewarded. Highlights include Nadia Gregor’s enigmatic “Faure, Envenomed, Dictates,” Eric Schaller’s…

Well, it looks like John and David Tamarin’s movie might actually get made. I think it’s been a little over a month since David mentioned some real-life anecdote in an email to John. As is often the case John thought it would be a great inspiration for a story or movie and he said so…

rdsp‘s poem ‘The Marvels of Horror’ has been nominated for a Rhysling Award. Every year the members of the Science Fiction Poets Association nominate their favorite short and long poems of the past year. All the entries are collected in the Rhysling Anthology which members use to decide on which poems to vote for. ‘Marvels…

“You simply can’t be afraid to serve the world a big silver platter of F**K YOU now and then,” states Dr. Identity, a clone, to his human (but somehow lesser realized) counterpart Dr. Blah Blah Blah in D. Harlan Wilson’s dada-science fiction-freakout novel “Dr. Identity”: a major “fuck you” to authority, tradition and consumerism comparable…

Million-Year Centipede Originally uploaded by earsphere722. I whipped up this cover for The Million-Year Centipede yesterday. We don’t even have a page for it up on the web site yet. Guess I better get cracking on that. The RDSP newsletter continues to give me a headache. I apologize to anyone who received a ‘”Enter Your…

Happy Halloween everybody! I was looking forward to Ripley’s 2nd Halloween but it turns out there really isn’t anything we can do with him since he goes to bed so early. Everything seems to be at 7pm or later. We already got a few Halloween pics of him though.

AndyHat replied to my post yesterday with another cool site where you can catalog the books you own: Librarything. It’s a really nice looking site. So now, of course I have to encourage all of you to go there and catalog your fringe lit. It seems to be a bigger site but still doesn’t have…

Book Signing & Discussion with Matthew Warner & John Edward Lawson Friday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. The Bookstack 1 East Beverley Street Staunton, VA 24401 bookstck@cfw.com ph. 540-885-2665 I’m looking forward to this event at The Bookstack on Friday. I’ll be taking along the video camera so maybe some part of the event will…

It wouldn’t be the Stokers without Mike Arnzen. Play Dead has found its way on to the preliminary ballot as well as his poetry chapbook Freakcidents. The competition for best novel is especially tough but I hope the book at least gets ot the final ballot. It’s also cool to see that a Two Backed…

For awhile LJ was really giving me a lot of problems. The recent redirect thing they did made it so I couldn’t got to my friends list or anybody else’s journal. Really I couldn’t view much of anything and it’s no fun if I can’t read what my friends are up to. So I hope…

So John’s off to World Fantasy and it turns out that we’ll have more table space than we can shake a stick at since Wheatland Press is also letting us put some books on their table. So between Borderlands Books, Prime and Wheatland just about all our titles will be on display. I’m aaaalmost done…

Halloween is so fun we should have it twice a year. Don’t forget to check out the RDSP authors at World Fantasy this weekend Madison, Wisconsin, November 3-6, 2005 Programming • Forrest Aguirre, Michael A. Arnzen, John Edward Lawson, and D. Harlan Wilson: Autograph Reception, Friday 8:00-10:30PM, in Capitol & University • Michael A. Arnzen:…

With imaginative vigor, Aguirre explores the fluctuating boundaries that separate human from inhuman, terrestrial from extraterrestrial, and natural from supernatural in the 29 fantasies in his debut story collection. In “The Butterfly Artist,” a zoological illustrator discovers there’s more to life than he had imagined when he visits a postapocalyptic landscape where beautiful and dangerous…