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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…

We got a request from Tim Janson, who is a top 100 reviewer over at Amazon.com, for some review copies of books. He’s already posted a review for Bare Bone #5 and Spider Pie He does a good job of reviewing and cross posts his reviews to B&N and a few other sites. It’s really…

This blurb just came in for Meat Puppet Cabaret from Michael Moorcock: “I’ve been reading Beard for some time and enjoying his brand of fiction along with other discerning readers with a taste for the visionary. My guess is that Meat Puppet Cabaret is going to be his big breakthrough novel, which will reach the…

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…

I finished the layout for Eyes Everywhere. Gary Braunbeck did a cool afterword that really puts the book in perspective. Now I need to work on the dustjacket and coming up with the details for a special edition. I have an idea for having the book come in a box with original artwork on the…

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…

It looks like we may be doing a Punktown Guide Book with Jeffrey Thomas. He was so impressed with the special edition I put together for Westermead that he was immediately inspired to come up with some great material. Of course this is still in the planning stages but Jeff is definitely fired up about…

For anyone counting yesterday marked the 15th year John and I have spent together. It really doesn’t seem like it’s been that long. The whole Bizarro thing motivated me to try to get more reading done. So I burned through Jeremy Robert Johnson’s Angel Dust Apocalypse and really enjoyed it. I haven’t done any reading…

The new issue of The Dream People (http://www.dreampeople.org) guest edited by Royce Icon is now online. This time I wound up doing the work to put the thing together. I tell you, getting that thing up can be a hassle. I don’t know when I’ll get around to sending out the announcement that it’s gone…

It sounds like Forrest had a great time at WisCon last week and did an excellent job of representing RDSP. He gave us a full report right after the con but I just haven’t had the chance to do an update until now. Apparently lots of people were interested in our press but hadn’t heard…

The files for Play Dead went off to Thompson-Shore yesterday! Working with them has been so much different (and better) than my past experiences with printers. Of course the job is barely started but so far it’s been great. We actually got to pick out the jacket cloth, foil stamp color and headband color. All…

Since the cover artist for John’s book now has internet access I figured it’s time to slap a picture of his novel up here and let you know it is available for pre-order from Shocklines for a special $2 discount. http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/labuinhebyjo.html Although the book doesn’t have a lot in the way of supernatural happenings it…

I’ve spent the weekend playing catch up with the RDSP finances. It’s time for royalties again! This time around we had to pay out quite a lot of money total because there are more authors being owed. Luckily we had enough money to cover it all in the checking account so no problem. The only…

We can now officially say that one of books has been nominated for the Stoker. That’s right 100 Jolts has made it on to the final ballot for the Stokers. Lots of works get recommended for a Stoker but only a few make it to the final ballot and we are quite pleased to get…

Hey, they extended that promotion through April. If I had known I wouldn’t have had to work my poor little fingers down to nubs to meet today’s deadline. But heck, nubs are in these days. Since I have most of those titles done and am not under a crazy deadline I was able to finally…

Glad to see people like the sample Play Dead playing cards. Shame on me for not mentioning the name of the artist: Dave Lipscomb. He’s the one who illustrated John’s chapbook Psych Noir. He also did the bookplate for the Everybody Scream! grimoire and he’s done a lot of art for us at The Dream…

Still didn’t get Tempting Disaster to the printer yet but hopefully will send the file later on tonight. I’m starting to work on the first aid kits we’re going to use to promo Tempting Disaster. They will be somewhat like the Sick Bags but come in a box instead which will contain a pill bottle,…

I’ve enjoyed reading a lot of people’s lists of things they’ve done so here’s my list: Some Things I’ve Done that People on my LJ Probably Haven’t + Performed live in a planetarium with the stars swirling (the acoustics in a dome are crazy!) + Reported several dozen rolls stolen and described them to the…

It’s cool to see a positive response to the Pseudo-City cover. I just love these jetpack, bowler-hatted guys the artist made. I can’t stop using them for stuff! One thing I’ve added to the site is a specials section on the catalog page. Right now you can order A Dirge for the Temporal and Bare…

I spent the weekend and Monday doing the website over to get rid of the frames. So now I can post links directly to any page and you can too! The site doesn’t look too much different though for all the time it took. However, the sidebar now changes depending on which page you go…

I finally got mr_graig’s blurb for Spider Pie up on the page about the book. I was excited about his response: “These stories will bitchslap your sensibilities and molest your pets. Each macabre absurdity is better than the last. I laughed, I winced, I bled spontaneously from every orifice. With Spider Pie, Alyssa Sturgill firmly…

WHC is shaping up to be pretty cool this year. It will definitely be cool to hang out with Michael, Jen and Oliver from Cthulhu Sex again. But we’ll also get to meet wretlind and he’s promised to give us a one-of-a-kind, home-brewed, leather bound chapbook of his work that’s been trimmed with a hacksaw….