Step into the LJ zone

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….

I’ve been spending a lot of time scoping out printer’s websites and getting estimates for both the custom playing cards and for possibly doing Play Dead as an offset title. It’s exciting but at the same time scary because I know it’s going to be a lot of money up front. Just how much still…

One of our biggest expenses is postage and the USPS is raising their rates this month. When we started the press it cost $1.42 to send a book media rate. Right now the rate is $1.59 but they’re raising the it to $2.13. 54 cents may not sound like much but it adds up. We…

I’ve been spending a little time over at The Internet Book Database http://www.ibookdb.net. It’s a cool little site that lets you create a “bookshelf” of all the books you own, or have read or want to read. I think it’s a relatively new site and a lot of ‘underground’ titles are missing from the database….

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…

“Speegle’s stories are impressively literate, intelligent and highly imaginative.”—Bookgasm Read the full review