Health Agent
by Jeffrey Thomas

The hardcover is available on Amazon now for a 24% discount.

Punktown's health agents are charged with keeping the public safe from infectious disease. Between inter-planetary travel, super-mutant strains of bacteria and criminal genetic manipulation they certainly keep busy.

But for health agent Montgomery Black work is about to consume his life. While trying to prevent the spread of a deadly disease Black could lose everything that's important to him but there's no ignoring the suspicion that something far more sinister than the impartial hand of nature is behind this epidemic.

Independant film maker Martin Roberts is filming a movie on the life of Jeff Lint whose work was also the subject of RDSP's And Your Point is?

The movie will include interviews with many authors about the impact Lint's work has had on them. RDSP authors Steve Aylett and D. Harlan Wilson will appear in the film which will be released in 2009. View the trailer here.

Many book lovers braved the rain to attend the festival this year and there were lots of 'celebrities' including Ben Franklin, Mark Twain, Curious George and Clifford the Big Red Dog.

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The Wonderland Award for outstanding Bizarro fiction will be awarded for the first time this November 14-16 at Bizarro Con in Portland, OR. The nominees include several RDSP titles.

Novels:
"Dr. Identity" by D. Harlan Wilson
"Wall of Kiss" by Gina Ranalli
"Vacation" by Jeremy C. Shipp
"Sausagey Santa" by Carlton Mellick III
"Million Year Centipede" by Eckhard Gerdes

Collections:
"13 Thorns" by Gina Ranalli
"Misadventures in a Thumbnail Universe" by Vincent W. Sakowski
"Discouraging at Best" by John Edward Lawson
"This City is Alive" by Forrest Armstrong

RDSP editors participated in the publishing fair sponsored by Frostburg State University and the Frostburg Center for Creative Writing which included panels as well as a book sale.

More pics and details here.