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Matthew Warner was recently interviewed on The Augusta Free Press radio show. He had lots of interesting things to say about writing horror, censorship and networking. He also mentioned that he is a finalist for the Virginia Governor’s Screenplay award for the adaptation he did of Eyes Everywhere!

Booklist reviewed Isabel Burning! Lynch’s alternate/indie-rock music career serves her well in this lyrical first novel about some unsettling supernatural secrets that might be better left concealed. Isabel is a solitary young woman who burns with inner fires of intuition that guide her during life-altering decisions. One such fire urges her to accept a housekeeping…

And now the video you’ve all been waiting for! This one’s in two parts. If you want skip straight to the shocking “parts” just watch this one:

Whew, there is a lot of video footage from HorrorFind! I’ve gotten a few more up now like Mike Arnzen’s tribute to Raw Dog Screaming Press which includes a great snot story among many other treasures: We found out our application for the Radical Publishing Pavilion at the Baltimore Book Festival was turned down. C’mon!?!…

This was definitely the biggest HorrorFind for us between the huge block of readings, our 5-year anniversary party, so many of our authors attending and 3 books debuting. I was worried that things could go horribly wrong but everything went smoothly. The readings were well-attended and the authors did a great job, the party was…

I’m not quite done with the pics from HorrorFind but hope to have them up tomorrow. I did mail out a whole bunch of pre-orders yesterday though. I’ve uploaded a video of Matt Warner reading the Foreword from Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word. He also read the chapter about meeting his future-mother-in-law but leprechauns seem…

HorrorFind was ultra-awesome! I’ll have a full report later on and lots of video footage from the readings. But for now here’s a speech I made at the RDSP party:

Tomorrow is HorrorFind! I’m really excited because so many of our authors are going to be there. Plus we’ve got 3 books debuting: Isabel Burning, Blankety Blank and Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word Just about all the RDSP T’s are spoken for. Whew, they went quick! I’m hoping there will be enough interest to make…

Mickey Z., author of CPR for Dummies, recently gave a lecture in New York titled “Myth America: War, Elections, and Our Way of Life”. It’s now up on YouTube. There are 5 parts. Here’s the first one:

There’s a really nice article in Wicked Local about the release of Adam Golaski’s Worse Than Myself. Read the article. I love getting local coverage like this. In our area it’s next to impossible because even the samll-time writers here are best-sellers.

Donna’s appearance on The Lair of the Yak was quite entertaining. Part 1 http://www.blogstar.com/shows/154/episodes/4314 Part 2 http://www.blogstar.com/shows/154/episodes/4536 As always Cornelius and the rest of the crew ask the question that, well…no one else would ever ask!

There’s a fascinating mutual interview with Harold Jaffe and Terese Svoboda up at Mad Hatter’s Review.

D. Harlan Wilson responds to accusations of rampant randomness in his writing: “I stylize much of my writing in a fractal, schizophrenic way. I do this partly to reflect the mental, social, ideological, metaphysical, ontological and phenomenological texture of the science fictionalized human condition. But I also do it because conventional writing formulas bore me….

CPR for Dummies got a cool mention over at LitKicks.com: “…a novel about the end of the world that reads like a Stanley Kubrick movie of a Kurt Vonnegut novel cut into little pieces and spliced back together.” Read the whole review.

I’ve been holding onto this video of D. Harlan Wilson reading from Blankety Blank until closer to the book’s release. It’s a pretty hilarious chapter on the history of the handlebar mustache: I’m excited so many of our authors are reading at HorrorFind so I will be posting a lot more video footage in the…

This is a pretty entertaining review of Blankety Blank: “Throw a handful of Salvador Dali paintings into a large pot of boiling water, add the films American Beauty and A Clockwork Orange, sprinkle in a few Saturday morning cartoons (preferably Looney Tunes), this is as close of a recipe you will get to understanding how…

Another review for Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word is in: “Warner does a great job, throughout the book of tackling articles of interest to everyone with original topics and surprising angles that make you look at Horror and the field of writing in a different way. He covers aspects of what it is to be…

August 9th @ 9PM Eastern http://www.blogstar.com (I don’t think there’s a direct link yet but it shouldn’t be hard to find on the day of the show) This should be a great show. I guess its been scheduled for awhile but somehow I was oblivious. Anyway, it will be a cool preview for the debut…

You can now pre-order the Isabel Burning hardcover and paperback. The hardcover will be out in time for HorrorFind, the paperback won’t officially be out until January but, if you pre-order now you are likely to get the book much sooner than that!

Mickey Z. was recently interviewed about “lesser evilism” by Dissident Magazine. You can read the interview here: http://tinyurl.com/6yavn3 But if you want to learn much more about many kinds of evil while having a few good laughs I recommend reading CPR for Dummies!

Just finished reading an interview with Ron Malfi about Passenger, his upcoming release on Delirium Books. Check it out here: http://www.horrorgarage.com/horror/interview-ronald-damien-malfi.php It’s cool how Ron’s enthusiasm for writing always comes through in his interviews.

Mike Arnzen has started a very cool blog to promote his non-fiction book The Popular Uncanny. Here’s the blog address: http://www.gorelets.com/uncanny/ Mike is the king of weird and this blog, dedicated to serious study of such fascinating topics as doppelgangers, robots and the evil eye is really enlightening. In Other Mike News: the film based…

So we’re making t-shirts for our big RDSP 5-year anniversary bash. Anyone who comes to the con and will wear their shirt can pick one up for free. Anyone who wants a shirt mailed to them can have one at cost ($10 in the US, contact me about international postage). If you want a shirt…

Dark Scribe Magazine has a good review of Horror Isn’t a 4-Letter Word up: From his humorous look at why an aspiring writer might not want to hone his craft on company time to more serious matters, like his internship at Edit Ink, Warner covers a variety of topics that will interest not only genre…

Somehow in all the hubbub I never posted the awesome review of Isabel Burning that ZombieMall ran: “I know the Secret of Isabel Burning and I am going to tell you right here, right now what it is. Lean in close and let me whisper it in your ear… I lied… I cannot tell you…