COVER: Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

 

Of Mice and Men Meets The Odyssey in a Post-Apocalyptic Future

Having only ever known the uncivilized wake of nuclear and biological apocalypse, three friends and their wheelchair-bound hostage set out on a perilous fool’s mission--to cross from one side of the devastated United States to the other, in the desperate, half-believed hope of finding a rumored haven. 

Spurred by a dark vision and the murder of their father, rageaholic Derek Cane and his over-sized, simple-minded brother, Teddy, flee the only home they've ever known, a struggling shantytown on the edge of the vast Wasteland. Heading ever eastward, they are accompanied by their friend, John, an orphan brought up by a fanatical religious order, and Leggy, a crippled old drunk who brags that, in his youth, he once traversed the Wasteland as a scavenger.

Wasteland Blues by Scott Christian Carr and Andrew Conry-Murray

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Post-Apocalyptic novel  coming from Dog Star Books in March 2014

Many thanks to our participating bloggers:

Cary Caffrey
Deanna Sjolander Lepsch  

Heidi Ruby Miller

Jason Jack Miller 
Johanna Gribble
John Edward Lawson
Kit 'N Kabookle
Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts

Mike Mehalek
K.Ceres Wright

T. K. Toppin

 

Dog Star Books Author: Scott Christian Carr

Scott Christian Carr has been a radio talk show host, editor of a flying saucer magazine, fishmonger, spelunker, psychonaut, journalist, medical/pharmaceutical writer, TV producer, and author. He is a Bram Stoker Award nominee, Scriptapalooza 1st Place Winner for Best Original TV Pilot, and in 1999, he was awarded The Hunter S. Thompson Award for Outstanding Journalism. Scott is a contributing editor and columnist for Shroud Magazine, and a 2010 Choate Road “Spotlight Scribe” - But his most satisfying and rewarding job is that of “Dad.” He lives in a home once owned by George Hansburg (inventor of the pogo stick) on a secluded mountaintop in New York’s Hudson Valley with his two children.

Scott Christian Carr’s latest novel Hiram Grange & the Twelve Little Hitlers is currently available from Shroud Publishing, Amazon.com, and at Barnes & Noble near you. Lloyd Kaufman (President of Troma Entertainment and Creator of the Toxic Avenger) calls it, “More fun than a barrel full of Hitlers... The best novel since Don Quixote!” His upcoming novels Hiram Grange & the Twelve Steps and Matthew's Memories (illustrated by Danny Evarts) are scheduled to be released in 2013.

Scott’s first novel, Champion Mountain, was recently selected for distribution on Amazon’s Kindle digital bookreader. His other publications include the anthologies Sick: An Anthology of Illness (which features an excerpt from his novel Believer), Death Be Not Proud, Desolate Places, Beneath the Surface, Demonology: Grammaticus Demonium, Scary! Holiday Tales to Make You Scream, and the upcoming Terror at Miskatonic Falls. Scott’s fiction has appeared in dozens of magazines and publications, including Shroud Magazine, The Dream People, GUD, Pulp Eternity, Horror Quarterly, The MUFON Journal, Weird N.J. and Withersin. His novella A Helmet Full of Hair was recently translated and reprinted in the prestigious French quarterly, Galaxies: La Revue de Référence de la Science Fiction.

Carr is an award-winning writer and producer of film/television. He is the Sr. Writer/Co-Creator of The Learning Channel (TLC) television series Dead Tenants. As Head of Development for both the Emmy Award-winning Triple Threat Television and the Academy Award-nominated Fredric Golding Productions Scott developed original programming for MSNBC, ESPN, CNBC, A&E, The Hallmark Channel, Discovery Networks and The Learning Channel.

Scott is the creator and executive producer of the post-apocalypse scifi film The NUKE Brothers (featured at DragonCon the World's Largest Scifi & Fantasy Film Festival and the 2012 AnthoCon Speculative Art & Fiction Conference) and writer of the tie-in comic book The Continuing Adventures of Fat Man and Little Boy...

He is currently pushing his latest novels Believer and The First Time We Died out into the world, and diving into his next: [PAUSE] and his first historical novel Woodstock, Baby…!, as well as adapting for the stage his unpublished novel The Apocalypse Will Be Televised: A Reality Television Tragedy. He is also hard at work on his nonfiction memoir of the worst divorce in the history of the planet, Congratulations, I'm Sorry, Good Luck...! (the book won’t be finished until the real life story is).

He writes every day.

Wasteland Blues (co-written with Andrew Conry-Murray) is Scott's first novel with Dog Star Books. It will be released in late 2013.

Dog Star Books Author: Andrew Conry-Murray

Andrew Conry-Murray was born in Boston, MA, and lived in the area until age sixteen, when his family moved to New Jersey, and then to California. He attended Caldwell College, where he met Scott, his co-writer of Wasteland Blues, their first novel with Dog Star Books. After college, Scott and Drew moved to Boston. He earned a master’s degree in education from Boston College, but decided not to go into teaching.

Instead, he got a job as an editor at a small publishing company that specialized in books on Chinese martial arts and mediation. He also studied martial arts and meditation with the publisher’s founder, Dr. Yang Jwing-Ming. Drew trained with Dr. Jwing-Ming for four years.

In 1998 Drew got married and moved back to California because his wife was starting a Ph.D. program at Berkeley.

He got a job as an editor at a technology magazine for IT professionals. Over time, he moved up from editing to full-time writing. The company was acquired a couple of times, and he stayed on through each iteration. He's now editor of a technology website called Network Computing.com.

He and his wife lived in California for eight years, and both their sons were born there.

In 2006 they moved to Rochester, NY, where his wife got a post-doctoral position at the University of Rochester. They spent two years there before moving to Pennsylvania, where they currently reside.

EVENT: Mike Resnick and Matt Betts at Millennicon 27

Dog Star Books authors Mike Resnick and Matt Betts were guests at Millennicon 27 in Cincinnati last month. Here are some of the fun things they did:



Panel with Tim Waggonner, Eric Flint, and Mike Resnick



Steampunk panel with Matt Betts, Sally Van Eycke, and Sarah Hans



Mike Resnick reading

EVENT: Heidi Ruby Miller speaks at Citizens Library

EVENTS

Dog Star Books author and editor Heidi Ruby Miller discussed the changing climate in publishing with Jason Jack Miller as part of the Evening with Friends series at Citizens Library in Washington, PA.

EVENT: Dog Star and RDSP Authors and Editors to Teach Workshop at Confluence 2013

EVENTS


FREE RDSP WORKSHOP AT CONFLUENCE 2013
As part of the DogCon2 celebration at Confluence 2013, award-winning editors and authors from Raw Dog Screaming Press will offer a free 3-hour writing basics workshop on Saturday morning. The event is open to all registered convention participants on Saturday, July 20, 2013. Pick and choose from 6 different 1/2 hr. sessions or attend them all.

The workshop will run from 10:00 AM until 1:00 PM

CRAFT
10:00-10:30 AM - CHARACTER with Matt Betts
10:30-11:00 AM - DIALOG with John Edward Lawson
11:00-11:30 AM - PLOT with Michael A. Arnzen
11:30–NOON - SETTING with D. Harlan Wilson

BUSINESS
NOON–12:30 PM - PUBLICATION OPTIONS with Deanna Lepsch
12:30-1:00 PM - BRANDING AND PROMOTION with Jason Jack Miller

To register for CONFLUENCE 2013, click the link below:

AUTHOR NEWS: Mike Resnick Edits Galaxy's Edge

AUTHOR NEWS

Mike Resnick is the editor of the new bi-monthly Science Fiction magazine, Galaxy's Edge.

The first issue is online at http://www.galaxysedge.com. Below is the table of contents:


The Editor's Word, by Mike Resnick

FICTION
The Shoulders of Giants, by Robert J. Sawyer
Schrödinger’s Cathouse, by Kij Johnson
Creator of the Cosmos Job Interview Today, by Nick DiChario
Just a Second, by Lou J. Berger
Act of God, by Jack McDevitt
Requiem for a Druid, by Alex Shvartsman
The Bright Seas of Venus, by Stephen Leigh
The Spinach Can's Son, by Robert T. Jeschonek
Think Like a Dinosaur, by James Patrick Kelly

SERIALIZATION
Dark Universe (Part 1), by Daniel F. Galouye

COLUMNS
From the Heart's Basement, by Barry N. Malzberg
Something Different, by Horace Cocroft
Book Reviews, by Paul Cook

Deanna Lepsch Named as a New Dog Star Books Editor

NEWS

Dog Star Books and Raw Dog Screaming Press would like to welcome its newest editor, Deanna Lepsch!

Deanna Lepsch grew up in a small town in western Wisconsin. There wasn't much to do there, but she found at an early age she could escape into adventures courtesy of her local library and the books stocked there. When she was twelve, she tore into her first Romance novel, laying waste to any that crossed her path for years to come. Her senior year of high school, while working at the local Barnes & Noble, she rediscovered science fiction and fantasy literature.

After zipping through about five college majors, she ended up focusing on English and attaining a Bachelor of Arts in English at University of Wisconsin LaCrosse. While in school, she took several writing courses, solidifying what she knew would be ultimate career. She also worked on the school's literary journal, The Steam Ticket, which gave her just a taste of the publishing business. It was enough to get her hooked.

Six months later, Deanna attended Seton Hill University's Writing Popular Fiction program earning a Masters of Arts in 2004.

Deanna is currently outlining and researching several projects including a time travel romance, adventure sci-fantasy romance and a YA adventure sci-fantasy. Her current focus is on finishing her contemporary romance, Bass desires.

Some of her interests include (but aren't limited to):

•   Social Dancing - especially Swing and Polka. (Yes, polka! She's originally from the land of beer, cheese, and German music. That would be Wisconsin.)

•   Screen Printing

•   Sewing

•   Reading

•   Writing

•   Travel

•   Music - both listening and performing

•   Vintage clothing - Mid-Century is her favorite.

She can be found most Sundays curled up on the couch enjoying both new and favorite movies such as: Harry Potter, Bottle Shock, V for Vendetta, The Marvel Movies, Notting Hill, Love Actually, The Day After Tomorrow (and other terrible disaster flicks) and the Shawshank Redemption, for example. Lately, she's been all about Dr. Who, Torchwood and Lost Girl.

She enjoys reading many different genres and non-fiction topics but her current favorites fall into one of these categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy, Romance or Young Adult. Some of her favorite authors are: Douglas Adams, MaryJanice Davidson, Gail Carriger, Charlaine Harris, Maria V. Snyder, Sarah Addison Allen, Rick Riordan, JK Rowling, and Mercedes Lackey.

Deanna believes anything worth doing is better with a soundtrack. She thrives with a beat in the background and her musical tastes are all over the place. Her current favorites include: Muse, Green River Ordinance, Mumford & Sons, The Cab, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Bobby Darin, Regina Specktor, A Fine Frenzy, fun., Youngblood Hawke, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals, and more.

Deanna lives in Minnesota's gorgeous Twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul with her husband and two mischievous dogs, Brigs and Holly. She currently works for Allina Health in Minneapolis as an Operational Trainer for Electronic Medical Records.

Read her blog Actively Pursuing an Insomniac Lifestyle.
Twitter: @dlepsch

Winner: Maria Hammarblad Gets a Dog Star Books T-shirt

WINNERS

Congratulations to Maria Hammarblad!

She was the random blogger to win the Dog Star Books T-shirt (as modeled by Matt Duvall of Really Cranky Dad fame) for blogging about the cover reveal for Mike Resnick's A Miracle of Rare Design. This makes Maria a new member of the Dog Squad! Maria is also an author. Check out her novel Kidnapped.