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I picked John up from the subway station about 9:30 last night. He was exhausted but full of WHC stories, too many to tell in one night. And, like most of the people at the con, he now has his own Harlan Ellison story. I was disappointed to hear that he didn’t do his story…

I just got the pictures from Jeff Thomas’ signing for Everybody Scream! earlier this year. I’ve made a page on the site for them http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thedreampeople/rds/events/tatnuck.html I talked to John yesterday and he said the party at WHC was a smashing success. Everybody from Joe Lansdale and Stephen Jones to Brian Keene was in attendence. But…

I heard from John last night and things at the con seem to be going well. He says there’s already as many people there as attended WHC last year and Thursday is usually just a warm-up day. Of course there were lots of minor hiccups, like how they screwed up the reservation at first (we…

OK, it’s ridiculous to already be up and and at work at this hour. John and his 50+ pounds of luggage have been dropped off and hopefully he will be on the bus to NYC in a few minutes. Anybody in the NYC area you’re welcome to attend the RDSP, Two Backed Books, Eraserhead Press…

I just realized I never posted the links to pre-order Play Dead! It’s available now on Shocklines: http://store.yahoo.net/shocklines/pldenobymiaa.html and ProjectPulp: http://www.projectpulp.com/item_detail.asp?bookID=440765699 Also, if you attend WHC you will be able to get the first peek at the Play Dead Grimoire. It’s only a mock-up but it looks damn scary. I’ll be getting up bright and…

I got so caught up in getting the files done for the upcoming releases and then getting everything ready for WHC that I forgot to say THE DREAM PEOPLE’s April issue is now online!! http://www.dreampeople.org This issue’s theme was Mutating Angels and the guest editor was Efrem Emerson. A freaky-good time was had by all.

I’ve spent the weekend playing catch up with the RDSP finances. It’s time for royalties again! This time around we had to pay out quite a lot of money total because there are more authors being owed. Luckily we had enough money to cover it all in the checking account so no problem. The only…

We can now officially say that one of books has been nominated for the Stoker. That’s right 100 Jolts has made it on to the final ballot for the Stokers. Lots of works get recommended for a Stoker but only a few make it to the final ballot and we are quite pleased to get…

Hey, they extended that promotion through April. If I had known I wouldn’t have had to work my poor little fingers down to nubs to meet today’s deadline. But heck, nubs are in these days. Since I have most of those titles done and am not under a crazy deadline I was able to finally…

Although we had both initially planned to attend WHC it looks like John is going to make the trip alone. As many of you know we’re expecting a baby in July. Normally it’s fine to travel but the doctors have prescribed a cut back in my activities and more bed rest. I knew I couldn’t…

Whew! Every time I think I’m going to get a break from getting these titles ready something else comes up. There was a problem with one cover that I uploaded which I took care of today. The deadline is Thursday so I’ve only got a couple days left. Out of the 9 files that I’m…

So John’s been working with three different publishers who are releasing his stuff and it’s definitely been weird to be on the other side of things. It’s tough giving up control of everything from cover art and layout to content. All the publishers have been fairly collaborative and open to ideas but some have been…

John tells me the proof for Pseudo-City has arrived and it looks fantastic. Did I mention we decided to do this one as a hardcover and then later in the year we’ll release a paperback version? Well it’s true! The hardcovers are always fun to do and seem that much more classy. The main reason…

Glad to see people like the sample Play Dead playing cards. Shame on me for not mentioning the name of the artist: Dave Lipscomb. He’s the one who illustrated John’s chapbook Psych Noir. He also did the bookplate for the Everybody Scream! grimoire and he’s done a lot of art for us at The Dream…

Here are two of the cards for the special edition deck that goes with the PLAY DEAD grimoire.

As of yesterday 100 Jolts was the number one seller at Fictionwise in the Horror category and 15 Serial Killers was number one in True Crime. Cool! John thinks he’ll have Everybody Scream! ready to send to them soon. I’ve been having trouble keeping up with lj, trying to get too many books ready for…

Congratulations to Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle, both of their collections have made it on to the preliminary ballot for Best Fiction Collection of 2004. Here’s the ballot http://www.horror.org/stokerballots.htm Also, congrats to steve_vernon whose collection Nightmare Dreams and a story from it are on the ballot. Usually it’s the novel categories that have the toughest…

I don’t know why but it looks like most of our books are 15% off at Amazon. I checked Sick, 100 Jolts, Dirge and 15 Serial Killers. They’re even running a deal where you can get Jolts and the Thackery T. Lambshead Guide (Night Shade Books) for $27.33 which is a damn fine deal and…

4 of our books are now available in ebook versions at Fictionwise: 100 Jolts http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29597.htm 15 Serial Killers http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29598.htm Sick http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29599.htm A Dirge for the Temporal http://www.fictionwise.com/ebooks/eBook29545.htm They are all also currently 15% off so if you’ve been meaning to check out any of these titles but just weren’t sure you wanted to spend the…

Still didn’t get Tempting Disaster to the printer yet but hopefully will send the file later on tonight. I’m starting to work on the first aid kits we’re going to use to promo Tempting Disaster. They will be somewhat like the Sick Bags but come in a box instead which will contain a pill bottle,…

So things just got that much more hectic for March. Looks like we’ll be trying to finish up a lot of files to get to the printer in order to take advantage of a deal they’re running. I don’t know why it seems to take just as long to put together the back cover and…

I’ve enjoyed reading a lot of people’s lists of things they’ve done so here’s my list: Some Things I’ve Done that People on my LJ Probably Haven’t + Performed live in a planetarium with the stars swirling (the acoustics in a dome are crazy!) + Reported several dozen rolls stolen and described them to the…

After much difficulty we’ve finally managed to get things going with Fictionwise to have our books sold in ebook format on their site. John’s been doing the formatting which is rather tedious and has sent them a bunch of files. They will convert them into 8 or so different ebook formats and then add those…

I can’t remember if I already mentioned that we’ve decided to do a hardcover of Westermead in the fall and hold the paperback until 2006. You can pre-order either version. Pseudo-City is now available for pre-order at: Shocklines http://store.yahoo.com/shocklines/pscobydhawib.html ProjectPulp http://projectpulp.com/item_detail.asp?bookID=1132738817 We also just got word that there’s a review of Everybody Scream! up at…

I’m pretty excited about the Westermead limited edition we’re going to do. It’s been somewhat up in the air because I hadn’t been able to keep the printing cost down low enough but I think I’ve finally found a way! It’s not going to be a Grimoire but I think it’s going to be just…