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“Back when I was a schoolboy—wearing sailor suits and eating giant lollipops—I thought the publishing world was a magical place, where writers, readers, publishers, editors, and all the rest danced together in the Mystical Forest of Literary Ecstasy.”—Jeremy Shipp Jodi Lee’s recent interview with Jeremy for Apex Digest is pretty entertaining: http://www.apexdigest.com/Online/interview080201.shtml She also had…

Anybody got the inside scoop on this: http://www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/ It would seem to be in direct competition with the Stoker awards. I’ve got my theories but I’m just curious where this came from and whose idea it was. I guess it’s good to have another place to submit our books, so far we haven’t been too…

Steve Aylett’s LINT is in the final top 10 of World Book Day’s ‘Spread the Word’ competition. The winner will be chosen by vote so if you want to support LINT (and who wouldn’t) cast your vote: http://www.worldbookday.com/spreadtheword/books/book-detail-top-ten.asp?BookID=70

Is it sad when the only birthday wishes you get are from automated web sites and forums? I don’t even remember signing up to half of them. I hope when I get home there are cards waiting for me from my realtor, mortgage company and car dealership!

RDSP is excited to announce a follow-up to the first book we published 15 Serial Killers: Building on the mayhem created by the controversial but critically acclaimed collection 15 Serial Killers Jaffe’s Jesus Coyote goes one step further. This docufictional novel based on the Manson murders proves that, just like his coyote totem, the myths…

I have spent the last several hours trying to boil down the descriptions of our backlist titles to one or two lines. It’s painful!

Congrats to Jeremy Shipp whose novel, Vacation, has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award in he category of first novel. Jeremy’s book has caused such a stir from so many different quarters that it’s a bit bewildering. In fact I just got an email from a reviewer who was very…

We recently took part in a PMA mass mailing to college libraries that included a flyer with a bunch of our backlist titles on it. It was a gamble because the combined cost of printing the flyers and the fee for being included in the mailing was pretty high. But the flyer was going to…

Things are moving along with our 2008 releases. We’ve got almost everything together for Tom Bradley’s Lemur which will be out in May/June of this year. Damnation and Salvation in the American Food Services Industry! Spencer Sproul is a would-be serial-killing bus boy who can’t manage to murder, injure, or even scare anybody. He longs…

“If you had a time machine and could secure the living brains of James Thurber and Andre Breton ripped untimely from their skulls, run them through a juicer, then mainline the blended liquid neurons, you might become a writer like D. Harlan Wilson. In fact, I know with certainty that this is how he actually…

Jeremy Shipp’s novel Vacation is up for the best Horror novel of 2007 over at the Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll. If you want to cast your vote here’s a link: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelh.shtml You can also vote for Jeremy as your favorite author of 2007 (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml) and even Raw Dog Screaming Press as best publisher (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ebookpublisher.shtml)….

Check out this trailer for the short film ‘Egg’ brought to you by the bizarre mind of Jeremy C. Shipp. If you don’t watch this you will have a very bad year!!

Congratulations to RDSP author Tom Bradley whose book Fission Among the Fanatics (Spuyten Duyvil Press) was awarded Non-fiction Book of the Year 2007 by 3:AM Magazine. We’ll be publishing Bradley’s next novel, Lemur, in 2008.

I’m not sure if we’ll survive this Winter. Ripley has been sick with various colds pretty much every week since October. I thought when we got the antibiotic for a sinus infection that we would soon be on the road to recovery. That was short-lived. Since then he has had another cold and now a…

Hey book lovers, have you heard about Paperspine.com? It’s a service like Netflix for books. Their rates aren’t too bad and they seem to have a decent selection, at least they’ve got a bunch of RDSP books that you might not be able to find in your local library. Here’s all the RDSP books they…

It seems like we’ve been struggling through cold after cold with Ripley since September. This last one only he got it but we didn’t. It turns out this time he has a sinus infection. Hopefully once he’s over this the madness will end.

We’ve been doing our best to get things lined up for next year, lots of possibilities for releases. We’re definitely doing a book by Mickey Z. called CPR for Dummies and of course D. Harlan Wilson’s novel Blankety Blank has been lined up for a long time as well as Donna Lynch’s Isabel Burning. We…

Anybody here on StumbleUpon? Someone over on the Bizarro Central forum was mentioned it as a good way to get the word out on Bizarro. Basically it’s an app you can add to your browser that lets you rate sites and waste time (lots of time) by taking you to random sites that it thinks…

We were contacted by the HWA verifier about Jeremy Shipp’s novel Vacation and whether it is eligible for the first novel category. It does fit all the requirements for a first novel. It would be great to get a book from 2007 on the ballot.

I just found out about a cool online zine running weird and scary short tales. Check it out: http://www.midnightinhell.com

Another of our books that has just become available as an eBook on fictionwise is Discouraging at Best. The cover of this book often intrigues people but they’re just not sure what they’d be in for reading it. Well, you can hardly go wrong at just $5. Fictionwise also has discounts for members so you…

I’m just about finished with my drive to our newer titles up on Fictionwise. You can get almost all RDSP titles as ebooks (they have at least 10 different formats available). Right now Tempting Disaster is on sale for $4.25. Of course I think the best way to experience an RDSP title is to have…

Mike Arnzen was interviewed for an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette during Zombiefest. The article is online for anyone who might be interested in reading it.

HAPPY HAUNTING!

The pics from Zombiefest are up. There are a lot of great pics: https://rawdogscreaming.com/zombiefest.html The convention seemed to go very well. There was a TON of interest in A Child’s Guide to Death. People were actually coming up to the table and asking for it. Though it was on the smaller side as far as…