Meet the artist, Lynne Hansen RDSP was looking for a cover that captured all things Halloween and turned to artist Lynne Hansen, “I have over fifteen years of experience in marketing and promotions including art and design. I started creating book covers when my husband Jeff Strand decided to make his humorous horror novel The Sinister Mr. Corpse available as an e-book. Once people saw Jeff’s next e-book Wolf Hunt, I started to receive requests to design covers for other authors. Now I get to tell other people’s stories through the art of the book cover and I love every minute of it.”...

There’s a common saying about how a writer needs to get out a million “bad” words as practice before they can start writing the “good” ones. Good, in this specific context, referring to collections of words that could theoretically be published. Or at least words you wouldn’t be embarrassed to have anyone other than your cat see. The good news: I wrote those million words back in middle school and high school and college. I dipped my fiction-writing toes into the waters of online fan fiction and decided I liked it. I hit the deep end of the pool with...

Raw Dog Screaming Press is excited to present to you the cover for BLOOD OF THE SUN, the third book in The Path of Ra series by award-winning authors Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts! The beautiful, atmospheric cover is by internationally acclaimed artist Daniele Serra. We feel it captures the mood of the story perfectly. Take a moment to be drawn into the cover and then read on as Lee Murray explains the thoughts behind bringing The Path of Ra covers to life, including this most recent one. Blood of the Sun comes out November 4, 2020 preorder here The...

One of my best memories from my years as co-founder of Raw Dog Screaming Press is when author Leland Pitts-Gonzalez came down from New York City to spend the weekend strategizing with the RDSP team, drinking all our diet Dr. Pepper, and talking about the Situationist International influence on punk rock in the 1980s. We had just accepted his novel The Blood Poetry, and knew we had something special on our hands. While the book didn’t penetrate the mainstream it is still considered by some a benchmark for contemporary dark weirdness. If you haven’t read The Blood Poetry, yet now’s...

We are excited to hear that three of our titles have been included on the preliminary ballot for the Bram Stoker Award. Two of our poetry releases, The Apocalyptic Mannequin by Stephanie M. Wytovich and Choking Back the Devil, made the list along with the story collection On the Night Border by James Chambers. Thanks to all the readers and reviewers who have taken the time to check out these releases and post about them! Voting HWA members who haven’t had the chance to read any of these works can email us (books at rawdogscreaming.com) to request copies in these...

We accepted the Specialty Press award from the HWA during StokerCon(easily the highlight of our year!) We partnered with Night Worms to sponsor April’s subscription box AllAccessCon Was Fully Funded In addition to our usual activities three things stood out in 2019. StokerCon was a great event for us and receiving the specialty press award was a true honor. We were also honored to work with Night Worms in their inaugural year. If you haven’t checked them out yet put that on your to-do list for 2020. Another unexpected but awesome development was John Lawson founding and funding AllAccessCon as...

Order by December 20th to receive before Christmas in the U.S. Feel good about the gifts you’re giving. When you buy books from an indie publisher you support the press, the author and book culture yourself. Plus these books look amazing under the tree, on the coffee table and on the shelves of your favorite reader. Of course you don’t have to gift all three books, you may just want to keep one for yourself! ~Please CONTACT US FIRST for international shipping details.~ Dark Poets Bundle Give the decadent experience of tasting true darkness, exploring depthless new textures while lingering...

Cover Reveal for the Next Poetry Collection from Bram Stoker Award-winning Christina Sng Raw Dog Screaming Press (RSDP) is eager to present the beautiful cover by artist Steven Archer for Bram Stoker Award winning poet Christina Sng’s follow-up book A Collection of Dreamscapes. “I am absolutely thrilled and immensely grateful to have another Steven Archer painting as the cover of A Collection of Dreamscapes,” Sng said. “It is darkly rich with a deep air of mystery and symbolism, an apt combination for the tales unfolded in this collection.” A Collection of Dreamscapes will be released during StokerCon 2020 which is being...