RDSP Update July
The IYWM Writing Workshop at Seton Hill University was an eye-opening experience for us. We attended as publisher guests and gave a couple classes, spoke on a panel and took pitches. But we also hung out, ate lots of great food and attended the Gatsby Costume Ball. It was both fun and a great learning experience. For all the details check out our blog post here.
You can also see more pics on our site.
RDSP and Hellbender by Jason Jack Miller were even mentioned in an article about the Gatsby Ball here.
Leland Pitts-Gonzalez is RDSP's newest author and his debut novel, The Blood Poetry, is coming August 8th. It will launch during Phantasmagoria: Faith-Healing at the Slaughterhouse, a unique reading that will incorporate elements of theater and film and will feature Brian Evenson, Grace Krilanovich and Rachel Sherman as well as Pitts-Gonzalez himelf.
The event will be hosted by The KGB Lit Bar in NYC from 7-9pm on August 8th.
giveaway
Enter to win a copy on GoodReads.com
SuiPsalms, the newest poetry collection from John Edward Lawson, will debut during a reading at the Monongehela Arts Center in Morgantown, WV. Both John Edward Lawson and D. Harlan Wilson will read Thursday, August 16, 7 pm.
SuiPsalms is the follow-up to Lawson's first, acclaimed poetry collection, The Troublesome Amputee. Exploring the subject of suicide from all angles, this collection challenges pre-conceived notions and both poetry and suicide. Drawing on influences from Sylvia Plath to Ian Curtis this book is never quite what you expect.
Although the Collins clan is steeped in Appalachian magic, Henry has never paid it much attention. But when his younger sister dies mysteriously Henry can't shake the feeling that the decades-old feud between his family and another is to blame.
Strange things are happening at the edge of reality, deep in the forests and mountains of West Virginia. Let Jason Jack Miller take you to a place where love is forever even when death isn't, where magic doesn't have to be seen to be believed, where a song might be the only thing that saves your soul.
Jason Jack Miller's Murder Ballads and Whiskey series is a unique blend of dark fiction, urban fantasy and horror. It's Appalachian Gothic, Alt.Magical.Realism, Hillbilly Horror. It's American Gods meets Justified. True Blood with witches. It's Johnny Cash with a fistful of copperheads singing the devil right back to hell.
For a limited time, the Kindle editions of the first two installments in D. Harlan Wilson's Scikungfi trilogy, Dr. Identity and Codename Prague, are for sale at Amazon for $2.99.
The third installment, The Kyoto Man, comes out at the end of the year as a limited hardcover edition followed in 2013 by a standard hardcover, paperback and ebook.
July 12-15
ReaderCon • Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA
RDSP will be in the Dealer's room
John Edward Lawson reading Saturday, pm, panels: Thur. 8pm, Sat. 9pm, Sun. 2pm
July 27-29
Confluence
Doubletree Hotel Pittsburgh Airport
Jason Jack Miller & Heidi Ruby Miller
August 8 • 7-9 pm
Phantasmagoria: Faith Healing at the Slaughterhouse
featuring Brian Evenson, Grace Krilanovich, Leland Pitts-Gonzalez, Rachel Sherman
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St, NYC
August 16 • 7 pm
The Morgantown Poets host John Edward Lawson and
D. Harlan Wilson reading
Monongalia Arts Center
debut of SuiPsalms
August 31-Sept 2
WorldCon
The Hyatt Regency Chicago
151 Wacker Drive
Chicago, IL 60601
John Edward Lawson, D. Harlan Wilson
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