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Hey, my full interview on the current and future state of publishing can be found here: http://conversationsinthebooktrade.blogspot.com/ I’m looking forward to WHC. I hope I have time to meet new people and catch up with lots of others that I haven’t seen in a long time. But I’m not going to be there for the…

Part of the interview I did originally for Conversations on the Book Trade is in the March issue of Brooklyn Rail which I believe is in print but is also online here. The full version will also be up on the Conversations blog soon. I’ll post another link when it is.

A Bizarro angel named Shelby has offered to start up an RDSP book club in Arizona. I’m really excited about the possibilities. If we could get book clubs to catch on it would be a great way to spread the word about our books. I’m even envisioning sending our authors out on book club tours….

I’m feeling the weight of a many-headed deadline beast bearing down on me. There are way more details to deal with for having a dealer’s table for WHC because it’s in Canada. The customs quagmire is both ridiculous and expensive. To tell the truth you can’t really make money on a dealer’s table if you…

Bare Bone #10 is just about done and should be out by early April. The TOC is pretty impressive. I’m really excited about this issue because I think these are all writers doing cool things and well worth reading. Fiction: When Sussurus Stirs • Jeremy Robert Johnson These Hands, Those Feet, This Heart • Mark…

We’re back, did you miss us? AWP was great, lots of opportunities and lots of new people to meet. There are pictures up from the event here: http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/awp.html but I’m posting one here that isn’t on that page. Mostly I spent my time carting Ripley around the hotel while John manned the table. In order…

We’ll be heading out for AWP tomorrow and we’re taking Ripley with us. I hope everything works out with bringing him to the conference. These things are usually pretty hectic so it might be an act of pure madness to drag a 19-month-old along. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. Here’s our signing schedule…

It’s too early for many details but I’m really excited about a novel we’ve signed for 2008, Isabel Burning, by Donna Lynch. Here’s a teaser image: I so wish that I could take credit for the brilliant design but this actually came from artist Steve Archer and the author. He’s got some awesome paintings up…

The chat transcript for the release of Via Dolorosa with Ron Malfi is up now. Fascinating stuff! Ron and John are heading out to SheVaCon tonight so anyone driving south from the D.C. area should take that under advisement. Also Ron’s brother Darin will be going along. I’ve posted this pic of Ron just for…

A letter to John from Drew Morse, Ph.D. Chair, 2007 Rhysling Poetry Awards: Congratulations. Your poem “Demands of the Voluptuous Virginal Sacrifice” has been nominated for a 2007 Rhysling Poetry Award (in the short form category). The Rhysling Awards recognize the very best speculative and fantastic poetry published during the previous calendar year. This is…

There’s an interesting review of And Your Point Is? in The Zone which begins: “Like God, if Jeff Lint didn’t exist then mankind would have to invent him. And, like God, Jeff Lint doesn’t exist but it didn’t take the whole of mankind to invent him…” Read the whole review.

The chat transcript for D. Harlan Wilson’s appearance on The Lost & The Damned is up here: http://lostdamned.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1687 I just read the whole chat, it was really interesting even though I already know all about Dr. Identity

The Troublesome Amputee has made it onto the final ballot for the Stoker. Now I have to arrange for John to get to Toronto for the banquet. I’m so proud of him!

Text:Ur will be reviewed in a March issue of Publisher’s Weekly: Fantasy fans looking for familiar themes and names among the 20 stories in Aguirre’s boldly original anthology will be disappointed. Those who like experimental fiction that’s not always readily accessible will be richly rewarded. Highlights include Nadia Gregor’s enigmatic “Faure, Envenomed, Dictates,” Eric Schaller’s…

A personal invitation from brotherrabbit to you: For many of you who find themselves snowed in for the remainder of the week, I’ll let you know that tonight, at 10 p.m., I’ll be involved in a live chat at The Lost and the Damned website, where I’ll be discussing writing, Via Dolorosa, and how to…

Amazon’s got lots of good prices on our books right now. For instance Via Dolorosa is available for only $19.77. And, even though these books don’t technically debut until March 1st Amazon’s already got ’em: Text:Ur is $10.85 Dr. Identity is $10.17 Fish, Soap and Bonds is $11.16

I forgot to mention that D. Harlan Wilson will be chatting tonight over at The Lost & the Damned at 10pm EST, http://lostdamned.com/board/. If you go ask him to recommend a good jet-pack mechanic.

Here’s a teaser I made for Text:Ur—The New Book of Masks. Unfortunately I think we’ve got too many books coming up for me to do a teaser for each one. It’s fun making these but I wonder how much interest they generate. Obviously a lot depends on people actually seeing the movie. Anyone who posts…

Royce Icon has made a short film inspired by John’s poem “Raw Dog Screaming” which, of course, is also the inspiration for the name of our company. I guess John’s just an inspiring type of guy. Here’s the movie: I also had to laugh reading this critique of the interview d_j_l did with John: “Interview?…

March is Small Press Month. We’ve never done anything particular for it but maybe this year would be a good year to start. We’ve got almost all our major releases scheduled for AWP which is at the end of February and the beginning of March so we’ve got lots of books to push. Here’s a…

D. Harlan Wilson will be making another appearance in Second Life on Saturday, Feb. 10 at the Starfleet Command auditorium in the Galaxy sector. There will be a reading from Dr. Identity and then afterwards a Q&A. Time: 1:00 – 2:30 SLT (which means 10 – 11:30 EST). This is a screen-shot from his first…

And now for some good news… The Troublesome Amputee has made it onto the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker award. The interview that I did for The Reading Experience is going to appear first in the print publication Brooklyn Rail and then on the blog. This means the interview will be appearing a bit…

We had to take Atlanta in to the emergency vet on Wednesday night because she seemed to be in pain. They couldn’t really say what was wrong with her but apparently she’d eaten a whole bunch of leaves and other things outside and her stomach was really full. Unrelated to that we got a call…

This just in: Raw Dog Screaming Press contains absolutely no trans fats!! So you can purchase both of Ronald Damien Malfi’s hardcover novels Via Dolorosa and The Fall of Never together for a $20 DISCOUNT and still avoid trans fats. But you have to use this link: http://tinyurl.com/3exy9l

I was reading an interesting blog entry on The Reading Experience about the future of publishing which also referenced this article at Backspace by Richard Curtis. Both are good reads if you’re interested in the topic. Normally I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about the future of publishing because I am too busy…