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Gentlemen, behold… another one of my promo shorts. This one is for Audiovile and was way more complicated to do than the rest. I’m no Brandon Duncan, that’s for sure, but I think this is a fun piece.

In between projects—it’s a dangerous place for me. This time around I’m extra gun-shy of starting up new projects. I really wore myself out with that last bunch of books and somewhere along the way I’ve lost a lot of my enthusiasm for working with new authors. I’m definitely excited about doing D. Harlan Wilson’s…

I think I’ve finished doing all the books we’re going to do for the Search Inside program at Amazon. I noticed that when the search inside feature goes live it seems to drive up the Amazon ranking even if there aren’t any sales. It appears to be helping the sales as well. Lots of our…

Woah, check out what Brandon Duncan’s done now:

So I’ve seen a few people post a link to Jeff Vandermeer’s new website http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/ and figured I’d jump on the bandwagon. I haven’t had too much contact with Jeff but he has always been very generous with his time, reading many of our releases, writing reviews and doing blurbs. I also saw on his…

I never pictured myself as a member of the spelling police. In fact, I’m not a very good speller at all. But I’ve seen my future as an old & decrepit crone complaining about how the internet ruined the English language. One mistake I’m seeing all over the place lately is people giving ‘advise.’ No,…

From an interview introduction: Jeremy C. Shipp is one of them — that new breed of bright, witty, angry young writers with something to say about the world. His novel Vacation is the highly-touted new release from Raw Dog Screaming Press. Slices of his menacing prose can be found at Chizine, The Harrow and Blood…

“…experimental, literate, at times cerebral, and overall well-crafted strangeness.”—Tangent Online Read the full review. This is a REALLY in-depth review. I think it’s great when reviewers take a lot of time with a book but it’s always tough to do an anthology review without giving away too much about the stories. I tend to skim…

Things have finally started to slow down a bit so I’m trying to catch up on all the stuff that fell between the cracks while we were dealing with that last bunch of releases. One thing I’ve been doing is trying to submit our titles for the Search Inside the Book program at Amazon. It’s…

We found out a few days ago that Shocklines is closing down. Matt’s made the public announcement so I can post about it now. It’s sad to see a staple of the scene shut down. Shocklines was the first to carry our books and I’ve enjoyed working with Matt since the beginning. I really admire…

Audiovile is Michael Arnzen at his weirdest and, well, most vile. Known for his entertaining and over-the-top readings he now takes it one step further with the addition of some musical madness. This is not so much an audiobook as it is an album of flash fiction, a truly unique experience. Most of the 16…

Recently John and I have both taken on freelance editing. I’m hoping this money will help improve the RDSP cashflow. It’s crazy how performing a service gets you so much more money than selling a product. When you’re selling books you might get a big check but once you subtract what it cost to make…

Jeremy Shipp was recently interviewed by the devil about his book Vacation. The things our authors do for us! Here’s an excerpt: Devil: First of all, let’s get this out of the way. Do you dislike to avoid abstaining from not eating babies? Jeremy C. Shipp: What? D: Just answer the question! JCS: No. D:…

One thing that I have not utilized much for promotions is message boards. I don’t really like ’em and there are not many I go to. The only one I’ve really read much of is Shocklines but it seems to be more for authors than readers. So does anybody know message boards where readers hang…

I’m learning a lot from this five promo things a day experiment. First, it’s harder than it looks. I feel I’ve really been using Amazon as a crutch because everything on there can be done pretty quickly and a lot of days I just don’t have any new ideas. I’m posting the things I do…

Discouraging at Best is now available in both hardcover and trade paperback. Amazon’s got a decent discount on the paperback $10.17 or order a signed copy of the hardcover directly from us for $20.95 shipping included! Promo Five post DAB cover on LJ research possible awards email online store email about award Amazon click thrus

Well, the postal rate increase is way more heinous than I thought. I was shocked to discover that the postal service has based the hike on a proposal by Time Warner which gives mega magazine publishers a big break while charging small publications 2 to 3 times more. This doesn’t affect book publishers as much…

Yesterday I discovered a new feature on Amazon.com, the Search Suggestion. I’m not sure yet the best way to utilize it yet but I did it anyway. 5 Things for 5-11-07 1. emailed the reviewer to let her know the package is on the way 2. made a search suggestion for Discouraging at Best on…

I can’t remember where John came across this but he read a promotions strategy once that said to do 5 things every day to promote your book. Well, I’ve never really tried it and I’m not sure he has for an extended period of time either. That’s one of the bad things about releasing books…

One of our biggest expenses is postage and the USPS is raising their rates this month. When we started the press it cost $1.42 to send a book media rate. Right now the rate is $1.59 but they’re raising the it to $2.13. 54 cents may not sound like much but it adds up. We…

There is a great article on Malfi’s recent appearance here: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/04_30-31/CBN April was a blur of taxes, royalty calculations & payments and dealing with Bare Bone #10 (contributor’s copies, checks etc.) Somehow I also managed to edit two manuscripts Health Agent by Jeffrey Thomas and Isabel Burning by Donna Lynch. Can it really be May…

What do you do when the excitement’s gone? Most everyone I know on LJ is into some sort of creative endeavor whether they are writers, artists or what have you. So I want to know what you guys do when the heady phase of dreaming and imagining has ended and you’re left with the drudge…

The Cocktail Party, a short film based on a story by D. Harlan Wilson, has won first place at the Kansas City Filmmakers Jubilee in the student film category! Over 500 films were submitted in this category. Here is the Jubilee’s write-up of the film: “A brooding man in a black hat flies into a…

I have been remiss! I should have posted that the new issue of The Dream People is up at http://www.dreampeople.org days ago. Also Text:Ur has been reviewed in Booklist: “Aguirre’s prolific editing ventures led to a World Fantasy Award for Leviathan 3 (2002). Judging by the high caliber of the selections in his latest anthology,…

I did make the deadline for submitting all those titles by the end of March. In fact, we actually got one extra edition through. I realized that in the past five weeks alone we’ve done 4 conventions and at least 9 editions. While we were working on those things we kept telling people we’d have…