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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…

Today I found out that we were supposed to do an ad trade with someone for Bare Bone #8 but I didn’t put the ad in the book. John arranged the trade and I don’t know if he forgot to mention it to me or if I just don’t remember it. But either way it…

I’ve been promising John a decent looking web site for a long time and I finally finished it. Check it out: http://www.johnlawson.org My favorite part is “The Word” a dictionary ‘lawsonisms.’

RDSP closed to subs at the end of the year. I think we were only accepting subs for about 3 months. Our long-suffering intern, Philip Overby, still has more than 50 to get through and I know he’s already done quite a few. I figure we must have received 70+ manuscripts. And we were only…

John’s been using MySpace to try to make new connections with readers. http://www.myspace.com/hellmonger I wish I had time to do that for RDSP too. There actually is a MySpace for Raw Dog hosted by Philip Overby but it’s not too extensive. I never liked MySpace before but now I see the potential for seeking out…

The new year means it’s time to start thinking about the taxes. We have to send out 1099-MISC forms to all the people we paid royalties to. I find it strange that for royalties you have to report anything over $10 for one time payments it’s a few hundred. Last year the fact that we…

Here are the details for the Orphan Leaf contest:   Announcing your chance to win a copy of Pseudo-City by D. Harlan Wilson signed by the author.  To enter write what appears to be the final page from a novel (350 words max). The following words should each appear once or more: salesman  |  Dr…

We were contacted yesterday by a The Orphan Leaf Review about running a contest with a signed copy of Pseudo-City as the prize. An Orphan Leaf is “a single page apparently torn from a book. The page exists, the rest of the book may not. Read to the end of the page. Let your imagination…

I only had to send out one email this morning. What am I going to do with the rest of my day? I hadn’t realized just how busy taking over almost all of the email duties from John had made my mornings. But it’s a relief not to be snowed under for once. Actually we…

Cameron Pierce, intern-at-large, has been working on getting our books more play at Amazon.com. He’s been trying to link up certain titles with other similar titles by searching. You can play too!!! Simply search for Last Burn in Hell on Amazon, click to view the title then search and view each of these books: Naked…

Forget what I said about BookExpo America. We’ve decided not to do it. I think John will probably attend to see what its like but we’re not going to have a table. Just thinking about all the stuff we would have had to do to get ready was already stressing us out. It’s unlikely that…

It appears that The Library Journal has reviewed Westermead Library Journal A little girl who sees things others can’t saves the life of a stranger and unleashes a monster in “Four Bronze Sisters,” while an unnatural beast haunts the countryside in “The Frost Mare.” Through these and other tales, anecdotes, and bits of local lore,…

We’ve been considering doing the BookExpo America convention since it’s in DC this year. BookExpo is totally different than the fan cons we normally do. It’s not genre specific and it’s all publishers exhibiting for book sellers and libraries. A table at BookExpo is like 5 or 10 times more expensive than a usual convention…

Here’s a pic of John, Mike Arnzen, Forrest Aguirre & D. Harlan Wilson, they sure look like they’re having fun! Since I didn’t go to WFC we don’t have any pics but this one came courtesy of Mike. Other WFC tidbits: It sounds like Night Shade Books is back with a vengeance. They went through…

WFC is over and John has returned. However his flight back was delayed twice, he got back so late that I haven’t heard too much about how it went. One thing he did mention was that he ran into someone from Bantam Books and they had actually heard of RDSP so that was cool. I’m…

So John’s off to World Fantasy and it turns out that we’ll have more table space than we can shake a stick at since Wheatland Press is also letting us put some books on their table. So between Borderlands Books, Prime and Wheatland just about all our titles will be on display. I’m aaaalmost done…

THE PRIMORDIAL REVIEW A Journal of Metaphysical Literature All genres (and non-genre writing) welcome, but “cosmic horror” is preferred. Keep in mind, the work must be metaphysical or mystical in some way. Maximum word count for fiction and essays is 7,500 words. There is no minimum, so feel free to submit prose poems, flash fiction,…

Halloween is so fun we should have it twice a year. Don’t forget to check out the RDSP authors at World Fantasy this weekend Madison, Wisconsin, November 3-6, 2005 Programming • Forrest Aguirre, Michael A. Arnzen, John Edward Lawson, and D. Harlan Wilson: Autograph Reception, Friday 8:00-10:30PM, in Capitol & University • Michael A. Arnzen:…

Bare Bone #8 is almost done. It includes a story by jeffstrand written specifically for this issue under a strict deadline. That Donihe is a taskmaster! Andbrotherrabbit makes his second Bare Bone appearance and plattcave debuts. I haven’t read either story yet but I’m looking forward to it. The cover will look something like this:…

“Westermead, a collection of tales by Scott Thomas (Shadows of Flesh), depicts an inviting fantasy world of both loveliness and horror through the four seasons.” —Publishers Weekly Consider this your personal invitation: Amazon.com has theWestermead hardcover at an introductory discount right now of $20.43 And the Fugue XXIX hardcover is a mere $19.77. A person…

Check it out, the first book available from blindsidepubs new venture. Does the cover look slick or what! Don’t make me remind you all that I did the logo for Blindside Publishing, OK? Now I wonder if we should be going with more photo-real style covers. I really dig this one. Check out the site…

With imaginative vigor, Aguirre explores the fluctuating boundaries that separate human from inhuman, terrestrial from extraterrestrial, and natural from supernatural in the 29 fantasies in his debut story collection. In “The Butterfly Artist,” a zoological illustrator discovers there’s more to life than he had imagined when he visits a postapocalyptic landscape where beautiful and dangerous…

The Dream People has had a pretty long and colorful history for an online zine and now it will be reinvented yet again. D. Harlan Wilson is taking over editorial duties and has already put together a new site. He’s looking for submissions so head over and check it out. http://www.msu.edu/~dhw/dreampeople/home.html I’m kind of sad…

Warning: this post contains self-defeatist language and gratuitous self-pity. If you don’t need any more negativity in your day (and who does) then do yourself a favor and skip this entry. -open vent- I’ve just about had it. You would think that high demand for a book would be a good thing but this Play…