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I created a deviant art account recently to put up some projects I’ve done that were never used for book covers or anything else. It’s here: http://earsphere.deviantart.com/ I’ve found the site a little frustrating to use though. For instance, I know a lot of people that do art and some of them must have deviant…

John and I will be at the Hard Bean Coffee and Booksellers this Sunday from 1:30 to 4:30 p.m. with Ronald Damien Malfi signing books and causing mayhem. According to brotherrabbit “Hard Bean is that cozy independent bookstore right in Historic Annapolis, down by Ego Alley. For more information, they can be contacted at 410-263-8770,…

Never FAIL Originally uploaded by earsphere722. The Dig Your Own Grave Contest to promo Bare Bone #9 seems to be going very well. There’s already been a score of amusing entries over at http://www.myspace.com/bareboneantho and Bare Bone now has lots more friends. Plus this gives me an excuse to post some of the great graveyard…

Dig Your Own Grave Originally uploaded by earsphere722. Announcing the Bare Bone Dig Your Own Grave contest! 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…

Million-Year Centipede Originally uploaded by earsphere722. I whipped up this cover for The Million-Year Centipede yesterday. We don’t even have a page for it up on the web site yet. Guess I better get cracking on that. The RDSP newsletter continues to give me a headache. I apologize to anyone who received a ‘”Enter Your…

We’ll be releasing a hard cover edition of The Fall of Never this December with a cool new cover, discussion questions and a foreward that will reveal all of brotherrabbit‘s secrets. You can pre-order it at Shocklines.

IMG_2017 Originally uploaded by earsphere722. I realized that I never posted this fabulous picture of rdsp and brotherrabbit at the Capital Bookfest. I’ve been trying to send out the RDSP newsletter for about a week now and it’s just not working. I use this free site to manage the email list and send out the…

Thanks to d_j_l the Bare Bone series now has a MySpace: http://www.myspace.com/bareboneantho The series has gotten lots of critical acclaim but I don’t think it’s reached the audience it deserves yet. However, I’m hoping d_j_l will be able to spread the word. If you’ve never read an issue consider checking #9 out. According to the…

IMG_2114 Originally uploaded by earsphere722. So we had a 3 person Halloween Party last night:-Ripley danced to The Monster Mash-I decorated a small pumpkin-We all wore funny hats-We had pumpkin flavored pudding and apple cider

DogsHead Originally uploaded by earsphere722. The Guide Dog Books web site is now online. http://www.guidedogbooks.com This is our non-fiction imprint. We’re looking for books on pop-culture criticism, particularly stuff about film, horror, bizarro etc.

Happy Halloween everybody! I was looking forward to Ripley’s 2nd Halloween but it turns out there really isn’t anything we can do with him since he goes to bed so early. Everything seems to be at 7pm or later. We already got a few Halloween pics of him though.

armwrestling Originally uploaded by earsphere722. brotherrabbit is my hero! He actually arm-wrestled this girl into buy his book. She was a great sport. The Whitemarsh event was a blast. We met lots of cool people and sold a bunch of books plus we left many signed copies at the store. So if you couldn’t make…

So, I did an interview on publishing and bizarro over at pretty-scary.net. Check it out here John’s usually the one who gets interviewed so it’s a bit of a different perspective.

Whitemarsh Flyer Originally uploaded by earsphere722. I’ve been feverishly bouncing back and forth between writing press releases, designing flyers/posters, working on layout and answering emails, emails and more emails! You know you’re in trouble when your to-do list starts spawning. I’m serious, I look away for a few minutes, look back and it’s on to…

gdb Originally uploaded by earsphere722. We’re starting an imprint to do non-fiction titles called Guide Dog Books. My cousin made some cool logos for it and this is one of them. There’s a web site which will be up soon and there’s already a MySpace page. More info soon… Don’t forget Mike Arnzen is chatting…

Hey, the chat with rdsp and D. Harlan Wilson was really fascinating. There’s a transcript up here. The Lost and the Damned message board is really doing a great job with these chats. Bare Bone #9 is almost done. Check out the cover art by Carlton Mellick III.

IMG_1996 Originally uploaded by earsphere722. It’s been a long time since I posted a pic of Ripley and I finally signed up for flickr so I figured I’d test it out.

AndyHat replied to my post yesterday with another cool site where you can catalog the books you own: Librarything. It’s a really nice looking site. So now, of course I have to encourage all of you to go there and catalog your fringe lit. It seems to be a bigger site but still doesn’t have…

I’ve been spending a little time over at The Internet Book Database http://www.ibookdb.net. It’s a cool little site that lets you create a “bookshelf” of all the books you own, or have read or want to read. I think it’s a relatively new site and a lot of ‘underground’ titles are missing from the database….

There’s nothing like a small town bookstore for events. Staunton was great and the reading/signing went really well. There are pics and even some video available here

So today we’re headed to Staunton, VA for the Bookstack reading. Hopefully everything will go fairly smoothly. Traffic getting away from this area on a Friday is always brutal. Wish us luck!

One thing we learned from Mike Arnzen is when you set up a bookstore appearance always bring your own books just in case. There was a bit of a panic yesterday when Matt Warner discovered that The Bookstack did not have books for the reading on Friday. But not to worry! We’ve got plenty of…

Book Signing & Discussion with Matthew Warner & John Edward Lawson Friday, Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. The Bookstack 1 East Beverley Street Staunton, VA 24401 bookstck@cfw.com ph. 540-885-2665 I’m looking forward to this event at The Bookstack on Friday. I’ll be taking along the video camera so maybe some part of the event will…

I recently started up an RDSP newsletter and the second update went out today. I’m posting an abreviated version below (I took out the newsletter-only special discount). I try to keep the newsletter brief, interesting and always include a giveaway or special discount. If anyone wants to sign up for the newsletter just go here:…

What! brotherrabbit FINALLY has a web site! Welcome to the modern age Ron… http://www.ronmalfi.com