A Thought Crushed Our Minds

     A question to other publishers, booksellers, and self-marketing authors:

     Has anyone gone the route of sending their titles off to be sold at a book expo? And if so, what sort of experience did you have? Common sense tells me there's little to be gained by it if your company doesn't already have a name and bookbuyers aren't going to be specifically looking for your titles, but I don't want to be naive and ignore a potentially helpful marketing tool. Any personal experience or advice anyone has on the topic is quite welcome.
Mar. 28th, 2006 @ 10:23 am

     Have I mentioned over here that Amazon.com is now listing Blindside Publishing's debut novel A View from the Lake by Greg F. Gifune for only $9.72 (reg. $14.95)? I don't recall having done so, so consider this your warning. If you want this novel on the cheap, this is your opportunity. Do be sure to check it out.

     The novel is also available for purchase directly from Blindside Publishing for $12.95, domestic shipping included, Project Pulp for $13.95, also domestic shipping included, Shocklines for $14.95, Clarkesworld Books for $13.95, Barnes & Noble for $13.45, or Powells.com for $14.95. It's worth noting that Clarkesworld still has signed copies in stock and are the only source for those at this point. Borderlands Books was also carrying signed copies but they seem to have sold out only recently and I was told they would be placing all further orders for the novel through distribution rather than direct, but they don't seem to have re-ordered just yet.

     Advance review copies for Ronald Damien Malfi's novel Via Dolorosa will begin going out before long, I'm waiting for them to return from the printer. This is predominantly a literary novel and I'll be mostly seeking literary reviews, but any other reviewers interested in this novel, do contact me. I don't guarantee a review copy but I'd like to hear from you. It's to be a hardcover release this summer.
Mar. 23rd, 2006 @ 10:36 am

Two Die Four, Split Collection by Tim Curran & Tim Johnson
Silver Lake Publishing, $12.95 $10.95

     Two authors. Four stories. So many ways to die.

     "Tim Curran and Tim Johnson are the future of horror. Johnson's work reminds me of a young Stephen King, and Tim Curran is a natural storyteller whose tactile characterization ensnares the reader in tales that are simply too good to put down. The two together make for an exciting combination, and simply put, a bloody great read!"
     --James R. Cain, Editor of Dark Animus

     "Though originality is oftentimes hard to come by, a reader tends to come by it quite often in works by Mr. Curran and Mr. Johnson. Highly recommended."
     Kevin L. Donihe, Author of Shall We Gather at the Garden?


     Project Pulp Radio, accessible from the upper-right corner of any screen on Project Pulp, has also been updated with 12 new tracks: 22-20s, "Such a Fool"; A Whisper in the Noise, "Seeing You"; Red Harvest, "Internal Punishment Programs"; Job for a Cowboy, "Suspended by the Throat"; Hope of the States, "66 Sleepers to Summer"; Green Carnation, "Dead but Dreaming"; Engine Down, "The Walk In"; Dexter's Moon, "Voodoo Girl"; Vaux, "Plague Music"; The Loveless, "All the Same"; The Eternal, "To Drown"; and Music77, "Kameror."

     And lastly, a new addition to the Project Pulp catalogue:

To the Mountain of the Beast, Novel by Christopher Stires
Carnifex Press, $12.25

     And I owe a few Blindside/Project Pulp related e-mails. If you don't hear from me tonight, you will tomorrow.
Mar. 21st, 2006 @ 04:43 pm