The thing about emails is the more you write the more replies you get the more emails you have to write. It’s a vicious cycle I tell you! I’ve got the front and back covers done for Bare Bone #6 and I should be able to do a test print today. The ads are almost […]
Election? What election?
horrordiva just sent the link to a couple places where her review of Everybody Scream! is published. Check it out: http://www.gothicrevue.com/EverybodyScream.html Today it’s just been email after email to write. First I had to catch up on the correspondence from when we were gone, then do follow-up emails to people we met at the con. […]
One more before we go
So we’ll be out of touch for a few days (you’re saying ‘when was the last time those two were *in* touch). I think I will miss posting every day and keeping up with the lj community but hopefully we will meet a lot of those poor bastards who don’t have lj blogs. We’ve had […]
Packing, checking
catalogs—check mailing list—check boatload o’ books—check giveaways: sick bags, t-shirts, postcards—check Ok, almost everything is packed for World Fantasy…except our clothes. I think we’re reaching the end of the line with the Sick Bags. We bought 2 or 3 hundred pill bottles and there will probably only be 30 or 40 left after this trip. […]
Gratuitous dashes
The prep for WFC is moving along, got most of the books packed but it looks like we’re going to need another suitcase this time around. We’ve got quite a few new books on the horizon and I’m beginning to feel an avalanche of editing slowly building that may burst down upon me in a […]
Dangerous Red and alternate subjects
I can’t believe World Fantasy (and Halloween!) are right around the corner. I’m looking forward to an early Halloween party this weekend. It’s been a long time since John and I had costumes for Halloween. Plus I’m hoping to bake up a few spooky treats for the party. We’re also supposed to pick up a […]
card sharks
We got the coolest package from cakeearthhead in the mail the other day. It had tons of waacky stuff but my favorite was this piece of art inspired by the forthcoming Play Dead by Mike Arnzen. This piece is so cool. I also loved the home-made packaging created from the box for a “Rampaging Scorpian […]
It’s so design it’s InDesign
The InDesign class is going well but sitting and listening all day without email or lj makes me a little crazy. I was thinking today about how the success of promo opportunities like the Horror of Writing workshop and the chats can’t just be measured by how many people showed up. The beauty of these […]
The writing on the wall
I saw this handwriting analysis thing on blindsidepubs’s lj so I decided to try it myself. It’s pretty accurate and explains a lot about the way I do things with RDSP. Here’s the beginning, it’s long so I put a link in instead of posting the whole thing: Jennifer has a healthy imagination and displays […]
48 books lighter
The Horror of Writing was enormously successful! Check out the pics: http://www.angelfire.com/zine2/thedreampeople/rds/eventframe2.html Everybody seemed to have such a great time. The authors cleaned up so nice and had such intelligent things to say about writing, literature and horror. They really did me proud. John was an excellent moderator (he always asks the questions people are […]
I’m looking forward to the Horror of Writing thing tonight. It will be good to see Brian Keene and the Warners again. And it’s always cool to hang out with Ron Malfi. Supposedly his brother, Darin, will be there wearing a Raw Dog Screaming Press/Fall of Never T-shirt. That is too cool! I hope to […]
Will wonders never cease?
Ok, Sick has sold another bunch of copies through LSI this month which is great! But it’s also driving me nuts because I can’t understand the impetus behind all the sales. The book has been out for 10 months now. There are still occasionally reviews coming out like one that will appear in this issue […]
Busy week ahead
The Horror of Writing Workshop is this Thursday! It would be cool to see some lj’ers there. Get all the info here. Plus, don’t forget the Horror-web chat with Mike Arnzen and Darren Speegle on Sunday. I’m really looking forward to both of these events. Authors really are pretty interesting people to talk to when […]
$$? $$? $$? $$?
I saw something interesting a few days back on tj_crowley’s journal (the person who runs Gothic.net) about how much it costs to maintain that site. He mentioned that in six years he’d never had more than $100 worth of advertising per month but he’d spent $120,000 total over those six years to keep the place […]
LSI-POD-HELL
One thing I’ve been worrying about it that Lightningsource/Ingram, our printer/distributor, is instituting a “new stocking strategy”. They used to keep at least two copies of every book on hand so that the books would be listed as in stock. It’s important for the titles to be in stock because a lot of customers won’t […]
So are the days of the dead…
The bizarre horror issue of The Dream People is now online, go, read. Although this issue was rushed I think it actually came out great. This is the first time we’ve published Jon Hodges in TDP knowing_carrion also Craig Sernotti mr_graig as well as Holly Day, Lavie Tidhar, Ray Wallace and John Sunseri. I’m hoping […]
The Royal family
RDSP calculates royalties at the end of September and the end of March so we spent part of the weekend crunching numbers and writing checks. The new financial program we have makes this so much easier! It’s a good feeling to be able to send out checks, even if they aren’t huge ones. It calculates […]
eBay strikes again
If you haven’t heard about it already author Douglas Clegg is auctioning off the limited hardcover rights to his book The Abandoned on ebay. Check it out: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2492392403 The bid is already up past $1000 and apparently the auction itself is getting a lot of views. Clegg really knows how to stir the pot! I […]
Frantastic
Frantically trying to pull things together for the Halloween issue of The Dream People thanks to last-minute contributions from knowing_carrion and darren_speegle we’ve pretty much got the contents set. Though we could use one or two more dark poems. The main thing missing is art. I guess it will all come together in the end, […]
The Bare Bone fund
Bare Bone #6 will be available in October but unfortunately #5 didn’t sell as well as we’d hoped. We’ve been working on ways to make sure we’ll be able to continue putting Bare Bone out and have started selling a few ads in the back of the book. This will at least help offset the […]
Dos Reviews
Just got in an excellent review from Nancy Jackson, aka horrordiva, for Everybody Scream!. As far as I know it’s the first one and it will appear on 4 different sites. The first place it will go up is Dream Forge but it will also be in The Midwest Book Review, Gothic Revue and The […]
We need to have a chat
We’re pretty close to getting all the details worked out for another chat on Horror-Web.com. The first one, with John as the guest, was a big success and a really good time. Those people come up with the best questions and really research their topics! So it’s going to be Mike Arnzen and (hopefully) Darren […]