Midnight in Hell

It wouldn’t be the Stokers without Mike Arnzen. Play Dead has found its way on to the preliminary ballot as well as his poetry chapbook Freakcidents. The competition for best novel is especially tough but I hope the book at least gets ot the final ballot. It’s also cool to see that a Two Backed…

Jeremy Shipp’s signing for Vacation at the end of last month went really well. Vacation was the store’s bestseller of the week due to the interest generate by the signing. I’ve finally gotten some pictures of the event up here: https://rawdogscreaming.com/redlands.html I wish I could take some credit for this event but Jeremy set it…

13 Highlights from RDSP’s 10th Year Dog Star Books, our sci-fi imprint, was successfully launched Despite all odds (the original venue fell through) DogCon 2 was a smashing success Odd Men Out by Matt Betts received a starred review in Booklist and was reviewed in all 3 big review venues (Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, Booklist) RDSP was mentioned in The Hollywood Reporter We were…

Pre-order Now What could draw poet, explorer, loner and paranoid Mykol Ranglen away from the relative peace of his own ring-in-space habitat?  He has no choice in the matter as one by one acquaintances are murdered or disappear altogether. Propelled by ever changing and deepening mysteries Mykol embarks to uncover secrets which could make people rich…

These are in no particular order except that #1 was definitely the top: 1. DogCon was legendary and we have the pics to prove it! It was way more fun and went way better than we expected. 2. Plans were laid for a new Science Fiction Adventure imprint, Dog Star Books, with author and editor…

I’ve been trying to get a better handle on what’s been going on in the bizarro scene and also trying to partner with other bizarro authors to spread the word. So I recently read Andersen Prunty’s Overwhelming Urge and wrote a review of it: The Overwhelming Urge has a certain underlying rhythm to it, like…