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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…

Well, it looks like John and David Tamarin’s movie might actually get made. I think it’s been a little over a month since David mentioned some real-life anecdote in an email to John. As is often the case John thought it would be a great inspiration for a story or movie and he said so…

SkullRing.org does it again. Check out this very cool interview with Ron Malfi http://mattstaggs.blogspot.com/2007/01/interview-with-ronald-damien-malfi.html Thanks to d_j_l for doing the honors.

Atlanta’s surgery seems to have gone well. She’s sleeping a lot but when she’s awake she’s a lot more chipper than she was before. Thanks to everyone who wished her well! We won’t get the results back about whether the mass was benign for 2 to 4 weeks. Also, John didn’t have much time to…

rdsp‘s poem ‘The Marvels of Horror’ has been nominated for a Rhysling Award. Every year the members of the Science Fiction Poets Association nominate their favorite short and long poems of the past year. All the entries are collected in the Rhysling Anthology which members use to decide on which poems to vote for. ‘Marvels…

This isn’t about RDSP but the OG, the orignal dog, our Boxer Atlanta. It took all weekend to get to the bottom of the problem with her eye, including 4 trips total to two doctors (one of which is 45 minutes away) and a bunch of trips to at least 3 different pharmacies. The short…

The clock’s running down for getting these titles ready. Via Dolorosa will hopefully be to the printers by Monday. I just sent the proof to Larry for Fish, Soap and Bonds. I’ve done a lot of work on the dustjacket too so that shouldn’t be too far behind. Dr. Identity is ready to go, the…

“You simply can’t be afraid to serve the world a big silver platter of F**K YOU now and then,” states Dr. Identity, a clone, to his human (but somehow lesser realized) counterpart Dr. Blah Blah Blah in D. Harlan Wilson’s dada-science fiction-freakout novel “Dr. Identity”: a major “fuck you” to authority, tradition and consumerism comparable…

Celebrate the release of Last Burn in Hell: Director’s Cut, a novel about a state-sponsored gigolo. To enter, visit the official MySpace page of author John Edward Lawson and post a pickup line in his comments section. And remember folks: “Don’t hate a player, play a hater.” Rules—Visit http://www.myspace.com/hellmonger Scroll down to the bottom of…

We’ve had two requests to interview someone from RDSP so I’ve spent most of the day trying to formulate answers about the publishing business, small press vs big, agents etc. Suprisingly I do have a few interesting things to say on the topic. I’m not being sarcastic, I really didn’t think my answers would be…

2 cool things: John was asked to be a writer guest a SheVaCon. It’s not a big con but it’s still great anytime we’re approached for something rather than us going after it which is normally the case. Also, a book collector contacted us about putting in a standing order for all hardcover releases. This…

John’s (rdsp) got himself mixed up in some crazy movie project with David Tamarin. They’re working on a script together and they’ve been contacting indie movie directors, tech people, actresses etc about it. There seems to be a fair amount of interest in the script. It would be cool if this thing actually gets made,…

I have been working on catching our ebook releases up through Amazon and Fictionwise. Doing the ones through Amazon is pretty easy. I believe Pseudo-City should be up now and I just submitted Westermead but Fictionwise requires a lot more formatting so I’ve only been able to do Meat Puppet Cabaret because it’s laid out…

This is the most complex vid so far. I’m not as happy with it as the on for Via Dolorosa (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBF5reOEBeA). Somehow the animation didn’t come out as smooth and the piece as a whole just didn’t come together the way I’d hoped. I think it’s easier to do dramatic vids than energetic ones with…

The winners of the Bare Bone Dig Your Own Grave contest should be announced today and I’m anxiously awaiting the results. Actually I already know the winners but you don’t so you should be the one in suspense! The results will be posted here: http://www.myspace.com/bareboneantho whenever they’re posted. I love the internet and I love…

Tomorrow is the deadline to get your epitaph in! Contest rules: Here is your chance to not only win copies of Bare Bone issues #9, 7, and 6, but also have issue #10 dedicated to you and include your epitaph. All you have to do is write what you would like on your tombstone and…

Here’s a link to a very cool, atmospheric version of “Have Yourself a Merry Christmas (If the Fates Allow)” by ego_likeness. I’ve been listening to it all morning. It’s a free download! You can’t say I never gave ya nuthin’. http://www.egolikeness.com/xmas/Ego_Likeness_If_the_Fates_Allow.mp3

OK, here’s my teaser video for Via Dolorosa. I finally figured out a way to export the files so they don’t look super-awful on YouTube. I’m pretty happy with this one because it doesn’t give away much in the book but I think it makes it look like an interesting read. Next up: Last Burn…

We were contacted yesterday by a German publishing company interested in checking out Meat Puppet Cabaret for possible translation. I managed to get them interested in Terror-Dot-Gov and Dr. Identity as well. It would be really cool to see some of our titles translated.

Here’s a little video I made to promote The Troublesome Amputee. It’s the first project I’ve done like this but I’m hoping to do little videos to promote all our books. Making the video wasn’t that hard but getting it so that it would work on YouTube was a major hassle, plus it really wreaks…

Hard Bean Book Signing Originally uploaded by earsphere722. I never got a chance to post this pic from the Hard Bean Cafe book signing. It was a really cozy bookstore and the Annapolis Waterfront is a great place to spend the day. We plan to do another event there in early 2007 when Via Dolorosa…