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This weekend RDSP publicity manager Jaym Gates and author Adam Golaski will be in the dealer’s room at Readercon. Be sure to stop by and say hello. There will be a raffle for all kinds of RDSP goodies including free books, a DVD and a T-shirt.

Dustin LaValley’s short film Party Girl will be shown in the Atlanta Film Festival this year. It will be included as part of the Paint It Black thriller shorts program on Friday, August 13th at 10:30 pm, Spring4th Center, 728 Spring Street NW, Atlanta, GA 30308.

Doing the American Library Association Conference was a real eye-opener! This picture doesn’t really do justice to the scale of the exhibitor’s room, this is probably just one-fifth of the room. In the past we’ve done fan/genre conventions and regional/general public events but ALA was something different altogether. Where else could you meet a literary…

Don’t miss this great interview with Eric Miles Williamson at the Huffington Post. Here’s an excerpt: "Working-class writers are publishing on small presses, but history won’t care where a book was originally published, and I venture that when the critics of the future look back at us, many of these writers will find their place in…

Thursday, July 22 @ 7:30 pmSt. Mark’s Bookstore reading series at Bar 82136 2nd Ave Street, NY, NYAdam Golaski, Julia Holmes, and Kira Henehan

Fatally Yours.com recently featured "Where the Heart Isn’t" and spoke with director Jayson Densman about the purpose of a "PoVid": "The idea is to mesh a poem (in this case, surreal/dark) with audio/visuals in a way that caters not only to the literary-appreciative bunch, but to those who may find a cool doorway into a world…

Coming in October In France, Eric Miles Williamson is known as “The Erudite Bukowski.” In America, he has been called “The Last Beat.” Best known for his internationally praised and stunning novels of the blue-collar world, with the publication of 14 Fictional Positions, Williamson now shows his readers he is much more than a chronicler…

Here’s the cover for the forthcoming German translation of Sheep & Wolves:

"… Bradley Sands understands how to write genre fiction (bizarro, new absurdist, splatterpunk, et cetera) while not forgetting that genre literature is still literature – these stories are not simple plot hacked open with violence but instead adjective stuffed phrases that twist in milked description." —Big Other

Director Jayson Densman has put together this awesome PoVid (poetry video) for "Where the Heart Isn’t" from The Troublesome Amputee by John Edward Lawson. The sound and voice-over was done by KEK-W. Creepy isn’t it?

You can now view the complete short film Egg online, written by Jeremy C. Shipp and directed by Jayson Densman.

Thanks to our new Publicity Manager Jaym Gates we now have a Twitter account! If you’re on Twitter please spread the word: http://twitter.com/RDSPress Jaym will be doing tweets live from ReaderCon and we hope to have live updates from other events as well.

July 28th at 7pmHarold Jaffe will be doing a reading and signing for Anti-Twitter at Books Inc in Berkley, CA

D. Harlan Wilson needs subs for the upcoming Bizarro issue of THE PEDESTAL MAGAZINE. Deadline for subs: June 14. "I’ve read some well-written and engaging stories, but few exhibit "different kinds of weird, absurd, horrific, uncanny, and/or grotesque speculative fiction between 250-1000 words," as the guidelines stipulate." Submission guidelines here: http://thepedestalmagazine.com/submitguidelines.php

Just put up a page for one of our upcoming releases, Conrad in Beverly Hills by Jake Fuchs. I’m getting ready to send review copies out now. here’s the synopsis: Professor Conrad Keppler is flummoxed by Kate, a colleague he likes who has shown an interest in him, but he doesn’t know how to respond. …

Simon Thalmann did a thoughtful interview over at Verbicide for My Heart Said No. Here’s an excerpt: "Yet even at length, Sands’ stories bleed enough potential symbolism to rival a Bob Dylan song. They are the kind of stories where you always almost have a handle on what’s going on, but only just almost…" Read…

Harold Jaffe will be speaking at South Texas College on April 28th at 4pm. Here’s an event announcement for more info:http://offtheshelf.southtexascollege.edu/?p=241

The debut of My Heart Said No, but the Camera Crew Said YES! at AWP seems to have gone well. Here’s a podcast of Bradley Sands reading at AWP courtesy of The Velvet.

Technologized Desire was reviewed in The New York Review of Science Fiction! "With this backdrop of science fiction, along with that of decades of culture, philosophy, politics, and history as its base, and expanding his science fiction data field to include cinema as the prevailing mass medium for such fiction, prolific fiction and non-fiction author…

Here’s the video from Mike Arnzen’s reading. Eating at Red Lobster will never be the same for me again. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=safZkJ9ozFQ

More video from the Backlist Books event: "The Storyteller" was absolutely hilarious!

Mickey Z. will be speaking at the Arlington Barnes & Noble Saturday, March 27 at 6:00 pm. This free event marks the release of: "Self Defense for Radicals: A to Z Guide for Subversive Struggle" http://www.pmpress.org/content/article.php?story=MickeyZ "Dear Vito"http://tinyurl.com/yj8oaxs Be there for an evening of radical provocation and stand-up tragedy… Barnes & Noble 2800 Clarendon BoulevardArlington, VA…

Getting some good blurbs in for this one. "There’s a place past all reason, most possibility, and all the jokes I can think of. A place shaped kind of like the human heart. Bradley Sands doesn’t write about this place, but he writes from it, pushing farther into the unguessable with each word, each scene."—Stephen…

I’ve started compiling the video footage from the Backlist Books reading. Here is John Edward Lawson reading "Burning Sylvia Plath’s Bra" from his forthcoming poetry book, SuiPsalms.Yes…he really did do that.

Here’s a new pic of John from the Backlist Books event (thanks to Bill for taking it). Also, if you want to know the "real" story of what happened at the event read Andersen Prunty’s blog: http://www.andersenprunty.com/2010/03/dinosaur-with-man-arms.html