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Today we’re launching the preorder for WRITING IN THE DARK: THE WORKBOOK! This volume is a follow up to 2020’s Bram Stoker Award winning guidebook WRITING IN THE DARK. Now Tim Waggoner has put together a book filled with exercises to inspire and elevate your horror writing skills. He’s taken the concepts from WRITING IN…

Here’s a new pic of John from the Backlist Books event (thanks to Bill for taking it). Also, if you want to know the "real" story of what happened at the event read Andersen Prunty’s blog: http://www.andersenprunty.com/2010/03/dinosaur-with-man-arms.html

We’re excited to be able to announce the novellas we’ve signed from our open call in March. Sonora Taylor really spooked us with her story Errant Roots. Because it has themes that explore family dynamics, heritage and birth rights this story fit right in to our novella line. The quick pace delivers an immersive reading…

To tell the truth I haven’t been feeling well for a little over a week now. It’s really cut down on my productivity for everything from RDSP work to house work. I finally heard back from reallyscary.com and they are interested in doing some reviews of RDSP titles and featuring some of our authors. I’ve…

We are excited to announce that we’ve signed a deal with Linda D. Addison and Jamal Hodge for their collaborative poetry project titled Everything Endless. It contains 55 science fiction poems, in 4 sections that explore the universe from its biggest bangs to its tiniest discoveries. We haven’t seen a collaboration with this much star…

One of Jeremy Shipp’s stories from Sheep and Wolves, “Camp”, is up on Pseudopod. If you haven’t heard of Pseudopod it’s a horror podcast magazine that does an excellent job of presenting short fiction in mp3 format. You can check out Jeremy’s story here: http://pseudopod.org/2009/05/15/pseudopod-142-camp/ It’s extra creepy in stereo!