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BOOK: A Miracle of Rare Design AUTHOR: Mike Resnick ARTIST: Bradley Sharp PUBLISHER: Dog Star Books GENRE: Anthropological Science Fiction SUMMARY: The best way to learn about an alien species is not only to live among them, but to become them in both physical form and function, but could a human really learn to think…

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…

11/27/12    Cast Your Characters hosted by Heidi Ruby Miller (Scott Thomas chooses a fantasy cast for FELLENGREY) 11/28/12    reKiosk features the FELLENGREY ebook as an exclusive 11/29/12    "Destroying Calenders and Resetting the Clock of Literary Fantasy" John Edward Lawson 11/30/12    Tribute Books Interview and book giveaway 12/03/12    Matt Betts hosts an excerpt…

This weekend we added another editor to the growing RDSP team. We are excited to announce that Stephanie Wytovich has signed on to be our poetry editor. In the past we have published a few memorable books of poems, however, poetry is not something that we have been able to fully pursue due to lack…

Today we are doing a cover reveal for the first Dog Star Books title, Cog by K. Ceres Wright. This amazing cover was done by Bradley Sharp of the UK and we have contracted with him to do the first 12 Dog Star Books covers. Visit the Dog Star blog for more info.

In front: Jason Jack Miller, Heidi Ruby Miler, Matt & Deena Warner and their son, Jennifer Barnes, Damian Walters Grintalis, K. Ceres Wright, Deanna Lepsch, Stephanie Wytovich, Leland Pitts-Gonzalez, Stewie Pattee In the back: Mike Mehalek, John Edward Lawson, Steven Archer, Donna Lynch, K. Ceres Wright, Chris Stout, Deanna Lepsch, Nathan Rosen, Stephanie Wytovich, Leland…

Honestly, you don't get many days like this in publishing. Days when someone sends you a link to a new review which you follow somewhat hesitantly, hoping that you'll be able to excerpt a decent quote, hoping you'll be able to send happy news to the author, instead of the 'sorry they didn't really get…

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…

The Blood Poetry Blog Tour Dates Monday, August 6 • Horror Book Pick at Book Marketing Buzz Tuesday, August 7 • Guest Blogging at Literarily Speaking Wednesday, August 8 • Guest Blogging at Moonlight Lace & Mayhem Friday, August 10 • Guest Blogging at Precious Monsters Monday, August 13 • Book Feature at Bunny’s Reviews…

It's been a great experience to be part of the HAZARD YET FORWARD project, a charity anthology put together by alumni from Seton Hill in support of one of their members, Donna Munro. Although we only talked to Donna a few times over the weekend we spent at the SHU conference she made quite an…

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…

Looks like Amazon has decided to do something about people who snag free content from the internet, format it as an ebook and sell it for Kindle. I blogged about this awhile back (http://raw-dog.livejournal.com/245555.html). I figured this kind of thing was behind the email we recently got explaining what type of content is acceptable for…

The Morgantown Poets reading with Jason Jack Miller and Michael Arnzen was the most fun event we've had in a long time. You can see the pics and report here.

This Friday, 7-9 pm, Morgantown Poets is hosting an RDSP book party with authors Michael Arnzen and Jason Jack Miller. The event is being held at the Monongalia Arts Center in Morgantown, WV. We've heard a lot of people are coming from out of state so we will be giving away a goody bag full of RDSP…

Several RDSP authors are featured in the newest issue of IWW Book Review: Larry Fondation—"Tear Down"Michael Gills—"Last Stand at Lonoke"Eric Miles Williamson—"Pay the Boy"

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…

Lately I've been thinking that publishing has become increasingly difficult. RDSP's 10-year anniversary is right around the corner and this is definitely not how I imagined things would be at this milestone. At first I thought I was just tired, burnt-out, in a rut and tried to shake it off. I figured it was not…

For the past two weeks RDSP has been featured on Heidi Ruby Miller's blog. Get to know our authors through some quick Pick Six interviews: Michael Arnzen Larry Fondation Michael Gills John Edward Lawson Jeremy C. Shipp Paul Toth George Williams D. Harlan Wilson Mickey Z. Also take a look at these follow up pieces:•…

The Suicide Girls blog is featuring one of Larry Fondation's short stories, "Dirty Girl." Read it for free!

D. Harlan Wilson tells it like it is in this interview with D.A. Bale. Here's an excerpt: "I'm not writing for a wide audience.  Not that I'm oblivious to a readership. I simply apply a heavy intellectual onus on readers and expect a lot from them. Not a popular thing these days – has it ever…

Lance Olsen has just been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship. Here's an article on his work and the award.

Architectures of Possibility has been getting a lot of press recently. Here are links to the most recent reviews and interviews. –HTMLGIANT interview Excerpt: "…for me, innovative writing represents a possibility space where everything can and should be attempted, challenged, thought, where every architecture should be explored.  In other words, we’re talking about the ideology…

Great interview of Lance Olsen by Ben Segal in Continent. Here's an excerpt: "Architectures of Possibility conceives of creativity as a possibility space, a locale just outside our comfort zones where we can and should take multiple chances in order to imagine in new ways, explore fresh strategies for finding and cultivating ideas, re-view what…

Wednesday, April 4th • 8 pm EDT Virtual Q&A with Steven Archer and Donna Lynchhosted here by ShinDig (the only thing you need to attend is internet access and Flash) Perhaps best known as the dark electronic rock band Ego Likeness (Metropolis Records), Archer and Lynch have also collaborated on an illustrated book of poetry,…