Congrats

Stephanie Wytovich Graduates from SHU’s Writing Popular Fiction Program Huge congrats to RDSP author and poetry editor Stephanie Wytovich on receiving her M.F.A. from Seton Hill University in Writing Popular Fiction. Stephanie is one of the hardest working, enthusiastic and driven people we know, yet she still manages to be fun. We’re  proud to know…

Royce Icon has made a short film inspired by John’s poem “Raw Dog Screaming” which, of course, is also the inspiration for the name of our company. I guess John’s just an inspiring type of guy. Here’s the movie: I also had to laugh reading this critique of the interview d_j_l did with John: “Interview?…

Life-long resident’s fiction tale is Queens to the letter This is a really nice piece on Mickey Z.

About the Book Welcome to the garden. Here we poison our fruits, pierce ourselves with thorns, and rip off our skin under the light of the full moon. Mad and unhinged, we fall through rabbit holes, walk willingly into fairy rings, and as our hair falls out near the creek out back, we dance in…

One of the coolest things that happened recently is that Play Dead was reviewed in both Publisher’s Weekly and Booklist. This is only the second book we’ve had reviewed in PW and the first for Booklist. PW said:…this cautionary tale grows sticky with relentless gore as the victims pile up. I actually hate PW reviews…

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…