DogCon is a big shindig RDSP holds every year to celebrate books, authors and all our supporters. It’s a chance for the RDSP family to get together, meet each other, show off the latest works and begin new creative ventures. DogCon 5 at Broadkill Beach At last year’s DogCon we announced that we were acquiring…
East City Bookshop was the perfect place to celebrate the Steel Magic book launch, second book in the Steel Empires series. This was our first visit to the store which just opened up in April. It’s bright and breezy, imminently browsable and has excellent staff picks. These people clearly know books! A Magical Celebration As…
Thanks to everyone who voted in our Reader’s Choice poll this time around! The poll phase narrows down all the books we published in 2015 to 4 titles for our reader/judges to evaluate. Here are the 4 Readers Choice Award finalists: Readers Choice Award Finalists for Books Published in 2015 All the Darkness in the…
RDSP is pleased to announce a two-book deal with a writing team from New Zealand—Lee Murray and Dan Rabarts. The first book in this dark detective mashup is titled Hounds of the Underworld and it launches The Path of Ra series. “Though the speculative fiction scene in New Zealand is small, it’s also vibrant and…
RDSP owner John Lawson‘s mother passed away early this week. She was great supporter of the press and also an avid reader. John’s love of reading and eye for a good story is likely inherited from her. The condolences and kind words have been pouring in and really do help, though I get the feeling…
Reader’s Choice 1st Round Voting This is the 3rd year for our Reader’s Choice Award and it includes all titles published by RDSP and its imprint Dog Star Books in 2015. The first step is a poll anyone can vote in. Help us by choosing your favorite 2015 release! This round of voting will narrow…
We are very pleased to announce that we’ve signed Maria Alexander’s second novel SNOWED continuing the productive collaboration that began with MR. WICKER which garnered a Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in a First Novel. It’s slated for release later this year and is sure to be a popular title for the winter holidays….
Title: Steel Magic Series: Steel Empires Book 2 Author: J.L. Gribble Genre: Urban Fantasy/Alternate History Release Date: July 6, 2016 Pre-order Link: http://amzn.to/1Rc17n2 Synopsis: Funerals are usually the end of the story, not the beginning. Newly graduated warrior-mages Toria Connor and Kane Nalamas find themselves the last remaining mages in the city when a mage…
A Bunch of Writers in Vegas, What Could Go Wrong? The first ever StokerCon was quite an experience. I have to say that it was very well run. Everything I participated in went smoothly and the volunteers were all friendly, helpful and professional. Next year’s StokerCon will be on the Queen Mary in Long Beach,…
On Publishing a Book that Will be a Movie Do you know what’s crazy surreal? Seeing something you wrote paraphrased and referenced in The Hollywood Reporter. Recently the news broke that Wraiths of the Broken Land, a novel written by S. Craig Zahler, published by Raw Dog Screaming Press, is going to be made into…
Today is launch day for the new poetry collection from Matt Betts. As editor Stephanie Wytovich will surely tell you Underwater Fistfight is like no other poetry collection you’ve read! Betts is a pirate-poet who takes science fiction and throws it in the brig with horror while he sits outside the cell, laughing as they…
Coming May 2016 Our 4th poetry collection from Stephanie M. Wytovich will be released in May. All the poems included are exclusive to this volume and have not been published elsewhere! Pre-order HERE The Brothel Theme Brothels are places that are constructed as—sometimes legal, but mostly illegal—houses to buy and/or pay for sex. Run by…
We’re excited to announce that two of last year’s releases have made it into the final ballot for the Bram Stoker Awards. An Exorcism of Angels, a poetry collection by Stephanie Wytovich, and While the Black Stars Burn, a short fiction collection from Lucy A. Snyder have both made the final cut. Congratulations to these…
RDSP has made a concerted effort to support women in horror and we consider it one of our biggest accomplishments to have had 3 releases from female writers on the Bram Stoker Ballot in the same year! This post is a round-up of interviews and conversations we’ve had on the subject of women’s contributions to…
Horror Novel Coming in 2016 RDSP is excited to announce that we will are scheduling the release of paperback and ebook editions of Stolen Away by Kristin Dearborn for June, 2016. Previously Stolen Away had only been available as an $85 limited edition from Thunderstorm Books and is now completely sold out. Brian Keene recently…
10 Great Books I Read in 2015 In 2014 I easily met my first reading goal of 52 books and had to move it up to 100. So for 2015 I challenged myself to 115 books. What was I thinking?! At one point I was 17 books behind schedule and considered giving up, but hate…
RDSP signs the sequel to STEEL VICTORY Raw Dog Screaming Press is pleased to announce we have signed a deal to release the sequel to J.L. Gribble’s debut novel Steel Victory. Book 2 of the Steel Empires urban fantasy/alternate history series, Steel Magic, will be released in 2016 under our imprint Dog Star Books. In…
Wytovich is the new Readers Choice Champ As part of DogCon IV, RDSP’s annual press party, we announced the winner of our 2nd annual Readers Choice Award. Mourning Jewelry, Stephanie M. Wytovich’s poetry collection from 2014, was the winner. We were lucky to have inaugural champion Matt Betts in attendance to pass the belt on….
K.W. Taylor Release Scheduled for 2016 RDSP is happy to announce that we’ve signed K.W. Taylor’s time travel novel The Curiosity Killers for release in 2016 under the Dog Star Books imprint. K.W. Taylor is the author of the urban fantasy Sam Brody series, about a dragonslaying disc jockey (The Red Eye and The House…
The Darkness Revealed Daniele Serra’s magnificent representation of the evil smoldering in the darkness of a small town is the perfect match for Andy Deane’s slow burning vampire apocalypse. Coming October 24th • pre-order now All the Darkness in the World will debut at DogCon (free and open to the public) in Philadelphia on…
What is DogCon? Every year RDSP throws a big shindig to celebrate books, authors and all our supporters. It’s a chance for the RDSP family to get together, meet each other, show off the latest works and begin new creative ventures. This year’s DogCon (IV) is being held in Philadelphia and promises to be the…
Baltimore Book Festival • September 25-27 Both John Edward Lawson and K. Ceres Wright will be on panels held at the SFWA tent during the Baltimore Book Festival. Here’s the schedule: Friday, Sept. 25, 2 pm • Blurring the Edges of Genre Writers of literary science fiction, poetry, horror, slipstream and weird fiction…
Confluence • July 24-26 Confluence is Pittsburgh’s premier Science, Fiction & Horror literary conference and this year it’s at the Doubletree by Hilton Cranberry. Three of our Dog Star authors, J.L. Gribble, Albert Wendland & K. Ceres Wright, will be on hand participating in panels, signing books and even doing their own kaffeeklatsch. Here’s their…
June 26, 7-9pm • Greensburg, PA As part of their writing workshop Seton Hill University hosts a massive author signing every June. Though you have to register for the workshop the signing is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC. This is the 4th year that Raw Dog Screaming Press and its imprint Dog Star Books…
Unveiling the Rainbow Artist Steven Archer has created a raw, textured cover to match B.E. Burkhead’s gritty, and unapologetic realism. In this poetry collection Burkhead shows readers what happens when they take off their rose-colored glasses and look at the world around them. Instead of fields of freshly grown flowers, he writes of alleys with…
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