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I was recently asked to comment on the economy and how it’s affected our press for a blog: http://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/the_education_of_oronte_churm/small_press_month I was interested to see that many of the respondents had similar perspectives about the small press and most were really positive.

I enjoyed this recent interview with Mickey Z. As always, it’s entertaining and controversial! http://tinyurl.com/dh75h7

There is an imminently entertaining interview with Tom Bradley done by Mikael Covey over at Dogmatika.

I just heard from Ronald Damien Malfi about a radio show he will be doing today. Here’s the details: “This is just a real quick note to let folks in the Baltimore-metro area know that I will be appearing on the radio show ‘The Signal’ (88.1 FM) today, reading a selection from my novel PASSENGER….

Jodi Lee has done an interesting interview with Jeremy Shipp which you can read here.

Avant-Garde for the New Millennium is now available for pre-order at Amazon. This is our first title to show up as a pre-order. The ways of Amazon.com are a mystery to me because I didn’t do anything different than usualy. This is very cool because for the past year I’ve had to set everything up…

The current issue of Rue Morgue Magazine has a review of Worse Than Myself. Here’s an excerpt: “Golaski excels at evoking everyday situations that take subtle and sinister turns into strange territories…Adam Golaski’s distinctive brand of quiet horror embeds itself deep in the reader’s subconscious. Worse Than Myself bears strange and terrible fruit indeed.”

I was on a hot streak there for awhile where I was posting something almost every weekday. But posting recently has been feeling like a chore. So instead of posting anything RDSP related here’s something I recently learned from the internet: If you have a jacket zipper that comes undone from the bottom you don’t…

For all you Shipp fans out there I’ve got two new links. The first is a review of Sheep and Wolves: http://davidagranoff.blogspot.com/2009/02/book-review-sheep-and-wolves-by-jeremy.html The other is an interview: http://llsoares.blogspot.com/2009_02_01_archive.html#879005021953501098

The East Bay Literary Examiner is running a very thorough review of Jesus Coyote: “One of the true architects behind the ‘docufiction’ genre, Harold Jaffe again injects and paralyzes his readers with infectious prose in his most recent novel Jesus Coyote. Though the novel is of course fiction, readers are artistically placed in the middle…

Tom Bradley always has something interesting to say. Here’s a new interview at 3AM: The Evil Glee: An Interview With Tom Bradley

The pre-order for Red King Black Rook is going well. (Mostly I just wanted an excuse to post this illustration from the book). If you want one of the Deluxe Limiteds which include a piece of the original art then I recommend ordering right away.

Another Chicago area reading and this one’s a doosie! February 13 • 8 PM Eckhard Gerdes reading along with Ralph Berry, Adam Jones, Steve Katz, Lance Olsen, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Lidia Yuknavich Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art 2320 West Chicago Avenue Chicago, IL 60622

Just set up a pre-order for a chapbook written and illustrated by Steven Archer: Red King Black Rook is a steampunk fable for the modern age. It tells the story of a king’s court and what happens when a crafty avian advisor, the Rook, gains the king’s ear. Written and illustrated by Steven Archer it…

Sheep and Wolves has made it on to the preliminary ballot for the Stokers. We’ve got some great compnay, the Collection category is really competitive this year but I’d love to see it on the final ballot. Superior Achievement in a Collection The Number 121 to Pennsylvania by Kealan Patrick Burke (Cemetery Dance Publications) Mama’s…

Larry Fondation is a 2008 Isherwood Fellowship winner! “The main purpose of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation is to contribute significantly to the flourishing of American letters by awarding grants to published novelists and to Isherwood scholars. These $4,000.00 grants enable writers to devote time to writing projects and provide funds for research.” Larry’s submission to…

Today is the last day to vote in the Preditors & Editors reader’s poll. To vote for Sheep and Wolves click here: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelh.shtml To vote for My Landlady the Lobotomist click here: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novel.shtml You can also vote for RDSP as a press here: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ebookpublisher.shtml

The current issue of Amercian Book Review has a feature review on Jesus Coyote. In fact, it’s a 2-page spread which is a lot of space to devote to one review! Here’s an excerpt: Jaffe’s novel superbly methodically deconstructs Manson’s self-created mythology of being “too beautiful to be set free.” By the end of this…

Pulse Magazine recently ran an article on Jeffrey Thomas: “Author Jeffrey Thomas, a Westborough native, is most likely deeply disturbed, as many artistic geniuses are. What else could explain the harrowing, mind-bending, pulse-pounding fiction that he pumps out on such a regular basis?” Read the full article

Though it’s a bit behind schedule the Health Agent limited editions are on their way to us from Jeff and I’ll soon be able to fill all the orders. Jeff even added an extra special detail for these. From his blog: “Well, a few days ago I opened up the first box of these suckers…

I’m excited that both Eckhard Gerdes’ novel My Landlady the Lobotomist and Jeremy Shipp’s collection Sheep and Wolves are in the running for best book of the year in their respective categories in the annual Preditors and Editors Poll. Last year both authors’ books were in the top ten but I’d love to see them…

HorrorNews.net had this to say about Lowlife Underdogs: “This is one of those collections you need to own. The stories grow even better after the first reading, you are going to want to thumb through it again and again. I love this collection of stories by Dustin LaValley and I can’t stay enough good about…

‘Egg’ has been submitted to 3 film festivals so far: http://www.paranoiafest.com/ http://www.barebonesfilmfestivals.org/ http://www.afidallas.com/ I’m sure there will be more but I also know that application fees to these things can add up. I’d love to sell a bunch of copies of the DVD and send that money to the director to help with the application…

Give them the creeps for X-mas! Here’s a great quote about Sheep and Wolves: “How often does a book give you the creeps or the willies? How often do you find yourself at a loss for words after reading story after story? “Sheep And Wolves” takes my words away from me and brings them back…

The new issue of Canadian Stories has a review of Fish, Soap and Bonds. It’s a print mag so I don’t have a link but here’s an excerpt: “In the last stretch of Fish, Soap and Bonds the characters find themselves in Hollywood. The narrator knowingly comments on a “plan to build a permanent home…