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The first batch of the A Rhapsody for the Eternal limiteds recently came in. Each has a different, hand painted cover. I've shipped off all the copies but I just had to take a picture of them all together before doing that. I think they look so awesome this way! You can still order a copy here.

Thanks to ego_likeness for doing such a great job on these!

To see the full size image go here
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The Front Porch is a cool online literary journal. I recommend checking out the newest issue, #11, and I'm not just saying that because they reviewed two of our books in the current issue.

Here's what they said about Welcome to Oakland:
"…the novel’s greatest strength comes from the fact that no matter how low these men find themselves they can still create beauty out of their world. Whether it’s the Australian watchman of the Oakland dump who spends his spare time sculpting cities of garbage, or a parade of garbage scows carrying a wedding party, or a toothless trumpet player belting notes into the night, or a young T-Bird elevating revenge into an art form, Welcome to Oakland shows us the beauty people make out of the mundane moments and objects found around them."—Marc Watkins

Here's what they said about Unintended Consequences:
“In terms of craft, the sixty-five short-short stories in Unintended Consequences are superb examples of narrative compression, of finding decisive moments in fiction to develop characters in the least amount of space. Populated with gun-wielding bar mates, murderers, prostitutes, thugs, and homeless, these stories constitute an unflagging gaze at LA poverty and seediness. A street-wise tone, coupled with pleasantly jarring, borderline-surreal plot twists give Fondation’s narratives a pulpy feel, while his plain style makes him imminently readable.”—Josh Collins

We were recently approached by a German publisher about the possibility of translating some of our books. I hope it works out but I know these things take time and are never a sure thing.

Thirsty for a good book?


The reviews for our latest books keep coming in. Here's a snappy one for Welcome to Oakland:
"Prepare yourself: reading Welcome to Oakland is like drinking Everclear with a chaser of Drano."—PopMatters

Read the full review

An interview with Larry Fondation about Unintended Consequences has just gone up at Hobart.

Here's an excerpt:
"…I think all good art should be disturbing in some way — aesthetically, politically — in one way or another, it should upset the established order. It should not be safe."

Read the whole interview.

Nick Cato had this to say about A Rhapsody for the Eternal:

"RHAPSODY will be enjoyed by anyone with a thirst for truly different dark fantasy…or those with a desire to to see some fantastic writing employed in the strangest of settings."
—Horror Fiction Review

Read the full review here

D. Harlan Wilson reveals the true nature of Scikungfi, Lou Diamond Phillips and his master's degrees in Science Fiction. Read the interview here:
http://www.fictionfactor.com/interviews/dharlanwilson.html

Welcome to Oakland is now available! Amazon still has it as a pre-order but that should change to in stock any time now.

Here's a brand new review from Tony Rodriguez:

"Eric Miles Williamson is the mystic on the street corner, the one who promises his listeners better days to come. Only those locked into their daily cyclic movements will continue walking past his street corner. And those of us who will listen will be fulfilled because we’ll already be drawn in by Williamson’s fierce bravery to step away from conventional storytelling in order to release the wild beast contained in the narrative of Welcome to Oakland."—East Bay Literary Examiner

Read the full review here

Prick of the Spindle has reviewed Finale. Here's an excerpt:

"Paul A. Toth’s novel Finale concludes in a surrealist declension, in the sense of both the grammar and plot, which collides with all the fractal possibility and random order of a Jackson Pollock painting....Dramatic? Yes. Entertaining? In its entirety."—Cynthia Reeser

Read the full review.

Here's a cool trailer for Paul A. Toth's Finale.

Check out this awesome banner made by Deena Warner Designs for Technologized Desire.

If you are a sci-fi geek this book is a must have, but you gotta be hardcore about it.

Guide Dog Books, our non-fiction imprint, has just released its second title: Technologized Desire by D. Harlan Wilson

Here's the description:
In TECHNOLOGIZED DESIRE, D. Harlan Wilson measures the evolution of the human condition as it has been represented by postcapitalist science fiction, which has consistently represented the body and subjectivity as ultraviolent pathological phenomena. Operating under the assumption that selfhood is a technology, Wilson studies the emergence of selfhood in philosophy (Deleuze & Guattari), fiction (William S. Burroughs' cut-up novels and Max Barry's Jennifer Government), and cinema (Army of Darkness, Vanilla Sky, and the Matrix trilogy) in an attempt to portray the schizophrenic rigor of twenty-first century mediatized life. We are obligated by the pathological unconscious to always choose to be enslaved by capital and its hi-tech arsenal. The universe of consumer-capitalism, Wilson argues, is an illusory prison from which there is no escape-despite the fact that it is illusory.

Available on Amazon here

Every Writer's Resource did an interview with Harold Jaffe recently. You can read the full interview here: http://www.everywritersresource.com/haroldjaffe.htm

Here's a quote from Jaffe for new writers interested in social activism:

'And the advice I’d offer is to learn as much about the world as you can, keep your courage up, and try to recognize that the “returns” are going to be wildly incommensurate with your effort.'

I think that applies to publishing as well!

The filming of Party Girl (based on the short story from Lowlife Underdogs) is coming along. There are loads of cool pics from the set up on the MySpace page: http://www.myspace.com/eggfilm but this is my favorite.

I just finished reading a good interview with D. Harlan Wilson over at Midnight in Hell. Here's an excerpt:

"I can’t remember what specifically drew me to fiction writing. No doubt it had something to do with world-building. I’ve always found the real world somewhat boring and anticlimactic. Fiction writing allowed me to create new worlds and immerse myself in them. It still does. I suspect that’s why lots of people get into writing seriously. Especially in the speculative genres."

Read the full interview here: http://www.midnightinhell.com/index2/issues/3.1/

You can now follow all the developments of the making of Dustin LaValley's Party Girl by friending this myspace: http://www.myspace.com/eggfilm

Did I mention that John will be a victim in the movie? That alone is pretty much priceless!

Got the first, pre-release review for Finale today and it's a good one.

"Toth is a skilled writer who has selected words to paint pictures, or a movie, for each of the scenes. While the reader may get caught up in the story, one has to appreciate the beauty of the words on the page and how eloquent the descriptions and phrasing of the sentences are to this novel."
—Aldo T. Calcagno (aka Mystery Dawg) for FMAM


Read the full review here:
http://www.fmam.biz/reviews/june09.shtml#finale

'Party Girl', a story from Dustin LaValley's collection, Lowlife Underdogs, will be made into a short film this summer. The film is directed by Jayson Densman and filming will begin in July. Here's a teaser:

Chad Savage did an awesome job with the cover for D.D. Murphry, Secret Policeman. The details are really cool, though it's a bit hard to see them at this size.

I'm really looking forward to this one. Here's a description of the book:

D.D. Murphry has a way with words—or is it that words have their way with him? Work the clues alongside this unlikely sleuth to reveal an underground cabal of letters, a conspiracy of meaning, right below the surface of the everyday world.

Murphry is both hero and villain, an unforgettable personality who will have you cringing while you laugh and rooting for his every misguided plan. This is a clever tale told with a dexterity that allows for a gritty, noir feel, insight into the frailty of the human mind and the ability to see the absurdity in it all.

Ellen Datlow has released the table of contents for Best Horror of the Year and it includes a story by Adam Golaski from Worse Than Myself which we published last year. It's a very disconcerting story titled "The Man From the Peak".

Golaski has some other upcoming publications including a story in Exotic Gothic 2 and Strange Tales III (which I noticed is still accepting submissions).

Jeremy Shipp has launched a new subscription service called Bizarro Bytes

You receive one previously unpublished story per month plus you can customize your options to include getting your name mentioned in a story among other fabulous choices.

All the details are here: http://jeremycshipp.com/bizarrobytes.htm

Plus there is a lot of great Gnome art on this page!!