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

BUY WASTELAND BLUES TODAY IN BOTH TRADE PAPERBACK AND E-BOOK!

 

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

 
 

COVER REVEAL AND PRE-ORDER: Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Finally, the much-anticipated re-release of the book that gave us the Ambasadora-verse, reworked with a new beginning, cover and foreword.

If everyone told you love wasn’t real, would you still be willing to die for it?

Sara Mendoza and Sean Cryer are.

In their multi-partner, caste-ruled society, love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. Relationships and conceptions in this world obsessed with celebrity, beauty, and power are based on DNA and lineages…or should be. But not everyone believes in the ruling traditions of the all-powerful Embassy. A quiet rebellion prowls the dark underground of this shiny world where techno-militants calling themselves fraggers grow in numbers and bravado. The Embassy intends to silence the fragger movement before the heresy of equality spreads throughout the system.

Sara Mendoza is part of the Embassy’s plan. Captured, tortured, and falsely accused of treason, she is given a chance to win back her freedom. She only needs to charm information from one of the fragger leaders, then kill him. But by the time she figures out the Embassy’s intel is flawed and that Sean Cryer is her true mark, she’s already in love with him.

Sean knows why Sara is on his ship from the start, but as a lonely, anti-social doser, he doesn’t value his life, only his ideology within the fragger organization. Against his better judgment, he becomes her protector, each day caring more about a future he was always afraid to hope for.

Ambasadora: Marked by Light by Heidi Ruby Miller

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Foreword by Jenna Bennett

Space Opera Paperback coming from Dog Star Books in April 2014

PRE-ORDER NOW FOR A SIGNED COPY, A FREE EBOOK, AND TO BE IN THE RUNNING FOR A BASKET FULL OF HEIDI'S FAVORITE THINGS

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What They’re Saying About Ambasadora: Marked by Light
"Ambasadora has a lot to say about the human spirit and it says it well."
—Mike Resnick, Nebula and Hugo Award-winning author

"With an anthropologist’s eye for world building and an engaging fast-paced style, Heidi Ruby Miller hurtles her characters through a dystopian labyrinth in which hollow beauty is revered and love a virtual crime."
—Christopher Paul Carey, author of Exiles From Kho

"Beautifully vibrant and intricately textured, Heidi Ruby Miller’s Ambasadora explores the value of true humanity, the limitless power of desire and the triumph of the individual soul. Amidst edge-of-the-seat action, Miller effortlessly incorporates the conflicts of the modern woman inherent in upholding feminist sensibility. Ambasadora is a banquet of sumptuous words, a truly exciting adventure that fans of science fiction are sure to enjoy."
—Mary SanGiovanni, author of The Hollower series

"[Sara]’s a heroine for the ages, and living proof...that sacrifice for love is more honorable than sacrifice for duty. She risks it all, and wins it all, and in the process, helps to change her world for the better."
--Jenna Bennett, NYT Bestselling author of Fortune's Hero and lots of mysteries

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Also from The World of Ambasadora and Dog Star Books:
Greenshift
Starrie (coming July 2014)

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

 

COVER REVEAL: Corpus Chrome, Inc. by S. Craig Zahler

COVERS

 

Who should be given a second chance at life? 

Decades in the future Corpus Chrome, Inc. develops a robotic body, dubbed a “mannequin,” that can revive, sustain and interface with a cryonically-preserved human brain. Like all new technology, it is copyrighted.

Hidden behind lawyers and a chrome facade, the inscrutable organization resurrects a variety of notable minds, pulling the deceased back from oblivion into a world of animated sculpture, foam rubber cars, dissolving waste and strange terrorism. Nobody knows how Corpus Chrome, Inc. determines which individuals should be given a second life, yet myriad people are affected. Among them are Lisanne Breutschen, the composer who invented sequentialism with her twin sister, and Champ Sappline, a garbage man who is entangled in a war between the third, fourth and fifth floors of a New York City apartment building.

In the Spring of 2058, Corpus Chrome, Inc. announces that they will revive Derek W.R. Dulande—a serial rapist and murderer who was executed thirty years ago for his crimes. The public is horrified by the decision, and before long, the company’s right to control the lone revolving door between life and death will be violently challenged….

Corpus Chrome, Inc by S. Craig Zahler

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Cyberpunk/Transhumanism novel  coming from Dog Star Books in January 2014

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What They’re Saying About S. Craig Zahler

“Zahler’s a fabulous story teller whose style catapults his reader into the turn of the century West with a ferocious sense of authenticity.”
—Kurt Russell, star of Tombstone, Escape from New York, Dark Blue, and Death Proof

“If you’re looking for something similar to what you’ve read before, this ain’t it. If you want something comforting and predictable, this damn sure ain’t it.  But if you want something with storytelling guts and a weird point of view, an unforgettable voice, then you want what I want, and that is this.”
—Joe R. Lansdale author of Edge of Dark Water

 Many thanks to the supporters who participated in the Corpus Chrome, Inc. Cover Reveal:
Cary Caffrey
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
Johanna Gribble 
John Edward Lawson
K. Ceres Wright
Maria Hammarblad 
Mary DeSantis
Matt Betts
Mike Mehalek
RDSP
Stephanie Wytovich
T. K. Toppin
Theodore Webb -  winner of a Corpus Chrome, Inc. paperback!

EVENT: Dog Star Books Authors at Capclave 2013

Capclave Schedule

October 11-13, 2013 • Gaithersburg, MD

The Raw Dog gang will be at Capclave on panels, doing readings and taking pitches. We will also be launching a Dog Star Books release, Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller! More info can be found at the official Capclave site.
Friday Schedule

• 4:00p So You Want To Be A Writer? Matt Betts
• 5:00p
  -Saturday Morning Cartoons Matt Betts
  -Diversity In Fiction John Edward Lawson
  -New to Conventions? Start Here K. Ceres Wright
• 6:00p
  -Buy My Book Jennifer Barnes, John Edward Lawson
  -Space Marines and Goblin Troopers K. Ceres Wright
• 7:00p
  -Doctor Jerky and Mr. Hide: Private & Public Personas Jennifer Barnes
  -Are Prose Superheroes Still Novel? Matt Betts
  -New Media, New Markets, New Business Models K. Ceres Wright
• 8:00p
  -Perishing Publishers Jennifer Barnes, K. Ceres Wright
  -Grim or Grin? Jason Jack Miller
• 9:00p Amazon, Hero or Villain? John Edward Lawson
• 10:00p Nice Shoes Jason Jack Miller
• 11:00p Strange Adventures — The Sub-genres of Science Fiction Action Adventure Matt Betts (M), Heidi Ruby Miller, K. Ceres Wright

Saturday Schedule

• 9:00a
  -Reading Heidi Ruby Miller
  -Fire the Literary Canon? K. Ceres Wright
• 9:30a Reading: Jason Jack Miller
• 10:00a When the Dark (Fiction) Comes Rising Jason Jack Miller
• 12:00p Lightening Students’ Backpacks: Text Books in the Digital Age Heidi Ruby Miller
• 1:00p Kickstarter: The Pro’s and Con’s Jennifer Barnes
• 3:30p Reading K. Ceres Wright
• 6:00p Reading Matt Betts
• 7:30p Mass Signing Matt Betts, John Edward Lawson, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller, K. Ceres Wright

Sunday Schedule

• 9:00a Author’s Table Matt Betts
• 11:00a Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture Matt Betts
• 12:00p Self Publishing and You / DIY Publishing Jennifer Barnes, Jason Jack Miller
• 12:30p Reading John Edward Lawson
• 1:00p Pitch Sessions Jennifer Barnes, John Edward Lawson, Heidi Ruby Miller

Dog Star Books Author: Albert Wendland

An early interest in astronomy, the comic books Strange Adventures and Mystery In Space, and the Sunday comics of Flash Gordon, led Albert Wendland to a life-long fascination with science fiction. Science projects, early efforts at art, and “creativity exercises” all had an SF vein, and the first novels he read were by Andre Norton, Poul Anderson, Arthur Clarke and Robert Heinlein.

His dream career was to do astronomy in the day and write science fiction at night, but majoring in physics at Carnegie-Mellon (as preparation for graduate work in astronomy) was not satisfying or inspiring enough, so he double-majored by adding English with the intention of eventually teaching literature and writing. In graduate school at the University of Pittsburgh, he wrote one of the first dissertations on science fiction, and his interest in both mainstream literature and popular culture brought him to the attention of Seton Hill University (a College then), which hired him. He taught there happily for many years, pursuing his interests in the contemporary novel, Romanticism, the sublime in art, the graphic novel, popular fiction, and, of course, science fiction, while getting many of his poems accepted in the school’s award-winning literary magazine, publishing articles on science fiction. Then a call for graduate programs led him to co-create the MFA in Writing Popular Fiction, which—unique in academic writing programs—focuses solely on the popular genres. This experience in developing and eventually running the program, and the ongoing communal inspiration provided by its students and faculty, encouraged a return to the thrill of writing SF novels, which he excitingly is continuing now.

Albert's debut novel, The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes, is due out with Dog Star Books in June 2014. Contact him at AlbertWendland@gmail.com.

COVER REVEAL: Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller

COVERS

To celebrate the cover reveal for Greenshift, the e-book will be temporarily 99 cents at Amazon!





A tale set within the world of Ambasadora.


Mari's rare eye color makes her a pariah within Upper Caste society, which is why she prefers plants to people...except David, the former Armadan captain who shuttles scientists around on a refurbished pleasure cruiser.


But someone else is interested in Mari and her distinctive look--an obsessed psychopath who tortures and murders women for pleasure.


When the killer chooses Mari as his next victim, the soldier inside David comes alive, but it is Mari who must fight for her own life and prove she isn't as fragile as the flowers she nurtures.


Greenshift by Heidi Ruby Miller


Cover Art by Bradley Sharp


Foreword by Dana Marton


Space Opera/Science Fiction Romance paperback coming from Dog Star Books in August 2013




Many thanks to the following supporters who participated in the Cover Reveal for Greenshift:

Jennifer Barnes
Cary Caffrey
ChristopherPaul Carey
D.A.Bale
D.Harlan Wilson
DanaFaletti
DeannaLepsch
Hanna Gribble
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
JC Cassels
John Edward Lawson
Jon Sprunk
K.Ceres Wright
Katherine Ernst
Kriscinda Everitt
Lee Allen Howard
Leslie Davis Guccione
Liz Coley
Lyndi Alexander

Many Genres
Marcus Christian
Maria Hammarblad
Mary DeSantis
Mary SanGiovanni
Mary Sutton
Matt Betts
Mercedes Yardley
Micael Chadwick
Michael A. Arnzen
Mike Mehalek
Patrick Stutzman
Patti Maccini
Sabrina Benulis
Sally Bosco
Stephanie Wytovich
Susan Abel Sullivan
T.K. Toppin
Ted Webb
Wayne Basta

EVENT: DogCon2

DogCon 2 • Columbus, OHio

August 2-4

HOTEL INFORMATION

Red Roof Inn Downtown
The hotel is near downtown and close to the Short North. It is just a few blocks away from the North Market. The DogCon rooms rate is $85 per night. You must book by July 2nd to receive this rate.

Making Reservations:
Individuals may call the Red Roof Inn Columbus Downtown direct at (614) 224-6539 or email Jim Greenhalge, Director of Sales at jgreenhalge@redroof.com. Please refer to the Group Code DOGCON when making reservations.
Amenities: Free Continental Breakfast, Free WiFi, a Free Airport Shuttle is available 8am to 6pm--please schedule 24 hours in advance
Parking is $10 per night.

Event Schedule

Friday, August 2, 7-9pm Kafe Kerouac hosts the Raw Dog Screaming Press Literary Circus
Poetry and Short Fiction readings including a tribute to poet Stephen Wilson
8pm Whiskey Tasting

Saturday, August 3, 1-3pm RDSP 10 Year Anniversary Celebration at the Thurber Center
Help us celebrate 10 years in publishing and launch our Science Fiction imprint Dog Star Books
-FREE Creative Workshops (complete schedule coming soon)
-Kid's Activities
-Tour the Thurber House
-Light refreshments will be served
 
4-5:30pm Reading at Bexley Library
Readers: Matt Betts, John Edward Lawson, Donna Lynch, Heidi Ruby Miller, Jason Jack Miller,
D. Harlan Wilson, K. Ceres Wright, Stephanie Wytovich

4-10pm Short North Arts District Gallery Hop

Sunday, August 12-6
Writer's Retreat at The Sanctuary for the Arts: Gather with fellow artists and explore or, wander off to contemplate or create on your own or do both. Stroll the garden path, walk the labyrinth, play in the creek, draw on the bridge. Bring a picnic if you like; lemonade and cookies will be available. Donations appreciated.
Reading by Matt Betts and open mic

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: Patrick Stutzman Gets a Dog Star Books T-shirt

WINNERS

Congratulations to Patrick Stutzman!

He was the random blogger to win the Dog Star Books T-shirt (as modeled by Johh Wayne Communale of Letters to Voltron fame) for blogging about the cover reveal for Matt Bett's Odd Men Out. This makes Patrick a new member of the Dog Squad! Patrick is also an author. Check out his novel Alone on the Edge.

Cover Reveal: Odd Men Out by Matt Betts

COVERS

Fighting for survival in a post-Civil War America overrun by zombies, Cyrus and Lucinda join a military group called the Odd Men Out, and together they face a terrorist army from the North in a showdown over a weapon of enormous power.

Odd Men Out by Matt Betts

Steampunk and Alternate History coming from Dog Star Books in Summer 2013

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

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Many thanks to the following supporters who participated in the Odd Men Out Cover Reveal:

The Barking Lot
D. Harlan Wilson
Deanna Lepsch
Ellie Soderstrom
Heather L.Nelson
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
JC Cassels
John Edward Lawson
K. Ceres Wright
Lee Allen Howard
Maria Hammarblad

Matt Betts
Mercedes Yardley
Michael Mehalek
Natalie Duvall
Novel d'Tales
Patrick Stutzman
Paul Cude
Scott Thomas
Steampunk Chronicle
T. K. Toppin

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.

Cover Reveal: A Miracle of Rare Design by Mike Resnick

COVERS

The best way to learn about an alien species is not only to live among them, but to become them in both physical form and function, but could a human really learn to think like an alien, and at what cost to his humanity?

A Miracle of Rare Design by Mike Resnick

Anthropological Science Fiction coming from Dog Star Books in Summer 2013

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp
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Many thanks to the following supporters who participated in the Cover Reveal for A Miracle of Rare Design:

The Barking Lot
Chris Stout
D. A. Bale
D. Harlan Wilson
Heidi Ruby Miller
Jason Jack Miller
JC Cassels
John Edward Lawson
K. Ceres Wright
Lee Allen Howard

Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts
Michael A. Arnzen
Michael Mehalek
Mike Resnick
Novel d'Tales
Patrick Stutzman
The Write Way

AUTHOR NEWS: Matt Betts' Story "The Safest Passage" in eSteampunk

AUTHOR NEWS

Matt Betts' story "The Safest Passage" debuted in the December 2012 issue of eSteampunk Magazine. It was voted story of the month by readers and will now be included in their best of collection later this year.

"The Safest Passage" is an early version of the story that kicks off his novel ODD MEN OUT for Dog Star Books. Get ready for this steampunk/alternate history in Summer 2013.