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posted by rdsp As writers we should all be able to type out a great press release in no time flat. Right? Okay, so maybe it’s not the most fun in the world, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t exciting. What’s the difference, you ask? Fun = setting your own schedule, discovering the fate of…

Only big wigs need business cards, right? Don’t you only give them out at boardroom meetings? Don’t they have to be super-expensive in order to be of any use? As authors and editors business cards are as important for us as any other professionals. You can (and should!) give them out anywhere, anytime, because they…

posted by rdsp One of the most overlooked areas in book publishing is promotion. While all companies will engage in some level of promotion, few—if any—have the resources, time, and staff available to capitalize on every possible promo opportunity for each book. Even the large publishing houses fall into this category; the promo reps are…

Well Sick didn’t make it onto the Shocklines bestseller list this week but then again I see that it is out of stock so all the copies they had have sold! That’s even better than being on the list because they’ve order another bunch of books from us. Also Sick is now listed at Barnes…

I’ve been meaning to mention that Darren and I have finished the editing on A Dirge for the Temporal and I’ve started on the layout of the book. I’m trying to do a story or two per night. I had already set up a template with all the font properties for the story titles and…

I was too depressed to do a journal entry yesterday. After thinking that Sick should be appearing any day on Amazon.com for several days we finally inquired and found out that it was not listed for distribution. During the initial panic we thought there might be no way to correct this but eventually John was…

2004 looks like it’s going to be a pretty good year for the Raw Dog because he’s got what dog’s love most-more than a few things to chew on! Now that Sick is out we hope to spend the beginning of the year promoting that. So far the response has been good, it will be…

In my last entry I mentioned that I had typed a few more pages of Everybody Scream! which got me thinking about how unique the whole process has been with this novel. When we first approached Jeff Thomas about releasing something of his on RDSP he told us he had a completed novel, possibly his…

How do people ever keep up with their blogs? Most of the blogs I visit people write in every day, sometimes even more than once per day. Somehow I manage to only get something up every week or so. Of course a lot of people’s blogs are peppered with chores they should be doing, chores…

Finally the layout for our second book, Sick, is complete! After a huge sigh of relief I began to contemplate the totally thankless nature of book layout. If you do it right, no one should notice. The recent boom in self and small press publishing has been great for variety but is often hard on…

Experts say that for a small press to succeed it needs to have a distinct identity and cater to a specific niche of customers. That’s why small presses thrive in genre communities like sci-fi, fantasy & horror. Since RDSP is just starting out we are struggling to define our press and reach out to an…