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The promo for Eyes Everywhere is going well. Matt Warner keeps me busy with lots of promo opportunities. Tomorrow I’ll be announcing a contest where you can win a copy of the limited edition. I’ll be starting on the promo for Meat Puppet Cabaret today too. I’m glad we got that postage meter! I’ve been…

Been working on a really cool project today that could take RDSP into new territory! But I probably won’t be able to talk about the details for awhile.

We got a request from Tim Janson, who is a top 100 reviewer over at Amazon.com, for some review copies of books. He’s already posted a review for Bare Bone #5 and Spider Pie He does a good job of reviewing and cross posts his reviews to B&N and a few other sites. It’s really…

We’re going to be sending out a lot of review copies of books in the next few months and I’m dreading those sweaty trips to the post office (our local branch doesn’t have air-conditioning!?!). So I’m looking into getting a postage meter. They don’t seem to be too expensive to rent but I’m guessing the…

I finished the file for the review copies of Meat Puppet Cabaret. I think I posted the cover art here before but not the actual cover, so here it is. I was pretty happy with the back too. I spend an inordinate amount of time on the back covers of books. It’s probably not necessary…

The pics from World Horror Con are up: http://www.rawdogscreaming.com/whc2006.html Thanks to Deena Warner for taking ’em! We weren’t able to attend the con but Michael Arnzen, Darren Speegle and Matt Warner were all there. It was also the launch of the Bizarro Starter Kit with custom brewed bizarro beers on hand to celebrate.

Bust Down the Door and Eat All the Chickens #4 is out! I actually haven’t had time to read it but it looks great. I have read the poem that did, Curiosity Killed the Donald, and it’s very entertaining. The issue also includes pieces from D. Harlan Wilson, Kevin Donihe & Cameron Pierce. Order a…

John was recently invited by Lance Olsen to participate in blog that discusses alternative fiction and publishing over at http://nowwhatblog.blogspot.com/ Here’s a snippet from Lance’s first post at Now What Blog: “Three behemoth media corporations dominate Manhattan publishing. These Brobdignagians employ the print arms of their swollen conglomerates as tax write-offs, considering low sales figures…

This blurb just came in for Meat Puppet Cabaret from Michael Moorcock: “I’ve been reading Beard for some time and enjoying his brand of fiction along with other discerning readers with a taste for the visionary. My guess is that Meat Puppet Cabaret is going to be his big breakthrough novel, which will reach the…

Our new web site design is up and running! http://www.rawdogscreaming.com I think the evolution of the site is emblematic of the evolution of the company. Onwards and upwards. Deena Warner really did a great job with the redesign and it’s so great having her taking care of the updates. I was getting so behind on…

Check out Matthew Warner being interviewed on The Pod of Horror!!!!! http://www.horrorreader.com/horror_reader/2006/04/pod_of_horror_1_1.html I’ve finished the ARC for Eyes Everywhere, got the proof and it looks great. Been knee deep in the final editing for Meat Puppet Cabaret and Steve Beard has been great to work with.

The response to the Eyes Everywhere limited edition has been really good so far. It was the #1 seller this week at Shocklines. I’ve been happy to note that people see the limited as a decent deal. Special edition books are always expensive but when people get an RDSP limited I want them to feel…

“…to arrive at that space where there is no past or future, just the vibrating hellish present…”—Harold Jaffe interviewd by Alterpraxis. Read the whole interview here: http://www.thrae.com/alterpraxis/substance/interviews/jaffekillers.html Royalties have been calculated and most of them have been mailed out. Still need to get one package and 2 checks to the post office. Work on the…

“A five-year-old accidentally won a copy of Spider Pie at the raffle at our family reunion, which was immediately confiscated by his parents.” Read the whole interview with Alyssa in Alterpraxis http://www.thrae.com/alterpraxis/substance/interviews/sturgillpie.html

John will be taking it to the air waves tomorrow on WIDR 89.1FM, Western Michigan University’s radio station in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From 5:15-5:45 he’ll be interviewed by Ron Riekki in support of his short story collection Pocket Full of Loose Razorblades with Afterbirth Books. You can check out the station at http://www.widr.org/

I’ve seen a rough draft of the new design for the RDSP site and I love it! It looks very professional and doesn’t paint the press into any particular genre corner. I wish I had more time to update this journal and more news to put in it. Somehow when you do it every day…

I’m relieved to say that we’re hiring Deena Warner to re-do our website and handle updates. When I first designed the site we only had a couple releases in mind and weren’t even sure if we would get past the first 3 books. Well I guess we’ll be sticking around and we’ve got more releases…

It wouldn’t be the Stokers without Mike Arnzen. Play Dead has found its way on to the preliminary ballot as well as his poetry chapbook Freakcidents. The competition for best novel is especially tough but I hope the book at least gets ot the final ballot. It’s also cool to see that a Two Backed…

Shocklines has started a Bizarro section which features a lot of the RDSP titles plus some great stuff from Afterbirth Books and Eraserhead Press. It’s cool to see this movement growing from that first discussion on John’s LJ so long ago! http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/bizarrostore.html

So things have calmed down since John’s MySpace account was hacked. Someone sent out a bogus message from his account saying that anyone who’d bought his books was a fool and he was retiring from writing. I don’t think anyone who actually knew John took it seriously but he has been trying to use MySpace…

I’ve finally made a significant dent in the Play Dead grimoires needing to be shipped out. Of course all the grimoires aren’t completed yet and there are still quite a few that need to be packaged up and put in the mail. You wouldn’t think it would be so much work to number them and…

I finished the layout for Eyes Everywhere. Gary Braunbeck did a cool afterword that really puts the book in perspective. Now I need to work on the dustjacket and coming up with the details for a special edition. I have an idea for having the book come in a box with original artwork on the…

raw_dog — [adjective]: Similar to butter in texture and appearance ‘How will you be defined in the dictionary?’ at QuizGalaxy.com Play Dead is sold out at Shocklines. They’ll have more copies in pretty soon I imagine.

For awhile LJ was really giving me a lot of problems. The recent redirect thing they did made it so I couldn’t got to my friends list or anybody else’s journal. Really I couldn’t view much of anything and it’s no fun if I can’t read what my friends are up to. So I hope…

From the Locus site, in Matt Cheney’s “Best of 2005” summary: “Numerous other worthwhile collections appeared in 2005, including Fugue XXIX by Forrest Aguirre, Cultural Breaks by Brian Aldiss, Willful Creatures by Aimee Bender, Greetings by Terry Bisson, Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz, Under the Dam by David Constantine, I Live with You…