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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…

Tom Bradley (Lemur author) has a very entertaining review of fellow bizarro author Jordan Krall’s Piecemeal June in the new issue of The Dream People. Here’s just one of his nuggets of wisdom: “…we will close Piecemeal June unable to forget what has been done to our heads. Shakespeare goofed. Krall has discover’d that country,…

There’s a new issue of Steampunk Magazine available. You can download it for free here or, if you’re really cool, you’ll purchase a hardcopy. This issue has a fabulous interview with but the thing I love about it is that it is so well laid out. I am allergic to zines with horrible layout!

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…

Every year at HorrorFind I’ve seen this person dressed up in this costume; a white dress, white make-up, super long fake silver fingernails etc. Is this a character from a movie? Or did this person just make this up? Hell, maybe they do their grocery shopping in this outfit.

We found out a few days ago that Shocklines is closing down. Matt’s made the public announcement so I can post about it now. It’s sad to see a staple of the scene shut down. Shocklines was the first to carry our books and I’ve enjoyed working with Matt since the beginning. I really admire…

One of our biggest expenses is postage and the USPS is raising their rates this month. When we started the press it cost $1.42 to send a book media rate. Right now the rate is $1.59 but they’re raising the it to $2.13. 54 cents may not sound like much but it adds up. We…

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…

We’ve had two requests to interview someone from RDSP so I’ve spent most of the day trying to formulate answers about the publishing business, small press vs big, agents etc. Suprisingly I do have a few interesting things to say on the topic. I’m not being sarcastic, I really didn’t think my answers would be…

Tomorrow is the deadline to get your epitaph in! Contest rules: Here is your chance to not only win copies of Bare Bone issues #9, 7, and 6, but also have issue #10 dedicated to you and include your epitaph. All you have to do is write what you would like on your tombstone and…

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…