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So, I did an interview on publishing and bizarro over at pretty-scary.net. Check it out here John’s usually the one who gets interviewed so it’s a bit of a different perspective.

FC2, A Small Press with a Big History March is Small Press Month so we figured that some posts to spotlight a few of the incredible small presses we know. Our first spotlight is on Fiction Collective 2 aka FC2. FC2 is a unique, author-run press with a long, accomplished history of publishing innovative fiction….

Writing in the Dark Raw Dog Screaming Press (RDSP) is pleased to announce a deal for Writing in the Dark, a non-fiction book on the craft of writing from Bram Stoker Award Winning author and professor of writing, Tim Waggoner. Writing in the Dark provides authors with the tools needed to produce original horror stories…

Jeremy Shipp’s novel Vacation is up for the best Horror novel of 2007 over at the Preditors & Editors Reader’s Poll. If you want to cast your vote here’s a link: http://www.critters.org/predpoll/novelh.shtml You can also vote for Jeremy as your favorite author of 2007 (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/author.shtml) and even Raw Dog Screaming Press as best publisher (http://www.critters.org/predpoll/ebookpublisher.shtml)….

The article "Picketing the Zeitgeist—Harold Jaffe’s 'Crisis Art'" appears in the most recent issue of American Book Review. Here's an excerpt: "Art that responds to a crisis is situational, hence created rapidly rather than painstakingly revised and refined…Crisis artists must swallow the poison in order to reconstitute it. Expel it as art." Unfortunately you can't…