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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!

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…

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't…

Larry Fondation was recently interviewed in the Industrial Worker Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Stream-of-consciousness went for the flow of the mind, of thought; I am trying for the flow of action, of events. I don't think most of us – especially in this "Information Age" – live our lives in a smooth and continuous…

14 Fictional Positions by Eric Miles Williamson: Kindle*Airplane Novel by Paul A. Toth: Kindle • NookAnti-Twitter by Harold Jaffe: Kindle*Codename Prague by D. Harlan Wilson: Kindle • NookConrad in Beverly Hills by Jake Fuchs: Kindle • NookCPR for Dummies by Mickey Z.: Kindle*Cursed by Jeremy C. Shipp: Kindle • NookDiscouraging at Best by John Edward…

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…

The Inflatable Volunteer by Steve Aylett is now available for Kindle and Amazon Prime members with a Kindle can check the book out from the lending library for free.

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…

Art Opening: The Verminomicon • December 17, 2011 from 8PMParanormal Books • 627 Cookman Avenue in Asbury Park, New Jersey 07712 See the sculpture of Tony DeBartolis inspired by H.P. Lovecraft Also coming in 2012 from RDSP a collaboration between Tony and John Edward Lawson: Verminomicon—A Field Guide to the Vermin of Yuggoth: Abominations of…

Larry Fondation was recently interviewed in the Industrial Worker Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Stream-of-consciousness went for the flow of the mind, of thought; I am trying for the flow of action, of events. I don't think most of us – especially in this "Information Age" – live our lives in a smooth and continuous…

Each pre-order comes with a new, signed original broadside! TERRIFYINGLY TINY. DEVILISHLY DEEP. The Gorelets Omnibus collects all the bloody little bits of Michael Arnzen's poetry written in the past 10 years into one big volume. From the contents of the original Gorelets chapbook and his classic “refrigerator of the damned” online magnetic poetry experiment,…

Congrats to Michael Gills whose story, "Leviathan: Monster of the Deep" was recognized as one of 2010's best online stories with The storySouth Million Writers Award. Read the story See the list: Notable Stories of 2010

We are excited to announce that we will be releasing The Blood Poetry by Leland Pitts-Gonzalez in the summer of 2012. This is the first book we have signed from open submissions in years and it really knocked our socks off. For more about Pitts-Gonzalez and the book check out The Blood Poetry web site.

The new issue of The Dream People is now online and includes excerpts from both AIRPLANE NOVEL & GO LOVE, as well as fiction from Lofton Gitt, Cat Rambo and others.

AIRPLANE NOVEL by Paul A. Toth is listed by USA TODAY as one of the top 10 Indie books of 2011! See the full list.

New NOOK editions: You can now get GO LOVE by Michael Gills and LAWSON vs. LAVALLEY by John Edward Lawson & Dustin LaValley for the Nook.