Event Photos: INDELIBLE INK and STEEL VICTORY Launches

Friday, June 26th saw the launches of Matt Betts's INDELIBLE INK and J.L. Gribble's STEEL VICTORY at the In Your Write Mind conference book signing. Heidi Ruby Miller, Albert Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright were also on hand to represent Dog Star.

 

 

  

Raw Dog and Dog Star

Tech Tuesday with K. Ceres Wright - Biohacking

Tech Tuesday is a weekly spotlight on the relationship between real life and a writer's imagination. As science fiction is all about looking ahead to the future, we asked our authors here at Dog Star Books to send us a link to a new technology that influenced their writing, sparked a new idea for a story, or simply caught their attention and got them thinking.

The Author

Daughter to a U.S. Army father, K. Ceres Wright has lived in Anchorage, AK; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Frankfurt, Oberursel, and Munich, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and the Washington Metropolitan Area.

Wright received her Master's degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. An accomplished poet, Wright's science fiction poem "Doomed" was a nominee for the Rhysling Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Association's highest honor.

The Spark

An article on biohacking: http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/cyborgs-among-us-human-biohackers-embed-chips-their-bodies-n150756

The Idea

Biohacking became a small but strong movement thanks mainly to body modification artists like Steve Haworth who were already skilled in piercing and scarification — and they were aided by our changing relationship with technology. Is it really so extreme, they ask, to wed technology and tissue in a time when we can't go a single day without our smartphones? We clutch our devices like talismans, wear Google Glass on our faces and have developed doors that unlock by tracking our heartbeats.

But the leap from Google Glass to sub-dermal technology is a big one, and real-life cyborgs are far from mainstream.

"You get this visceral reaction, this recoil, from people who make a snap judgment and don't know what it's about," said Amal Graafstra, a cyborg who creates and sells biohacking devices — including a chip that Zoe Quinn implanted in her own hand in May — through his company Dangerous Things.

Just $39 buys a glass-encased embeddable chip that works with some Android smartphones. A full DIY cyborg kit, including a sterilized injector and gauze pads, runs about $100.

The Result

I write cyberpunk, which deals with the near future, as well as the implantation of tech devices and/or genetic manipulation. This biohacking movement has been a trope in cyberpunk for decades, and we're seeing it come to pass. The process for mainstream adoption is for an idea to be adopted by 1) innovators, 2) early adopters, 3) early majority, 4) late majority, and 5) laggards. I think we're in phase 2, but I'm no social scientist. As a writer, I can use the ideas within this article and try to project out 60 or so years to craft a somewhat believable future in my books. For example, even though doctors now shun this type of implantation, I think an entire industry will spring up where doctors will undergo different levels of certification to become qualified to implant tech in people.

Find Out More

about K. Ceres at her website, http://www.kcereswright.com, and follow her on Twitter @KCeresWright.

And be sure to check out COG:

Event Photos: In Your Write Mind Book Signing

Dog Star Books authors Matt Betts, Heidi Ruby Miller, Al Wendland, and K. Ceres Wright were on hand Friday night to take part in a massive book signing as part of the In Your Write Mind workshop at Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA. Raw Dog Screaming Press broke our record for most sales at an event by 150%!

Shanna Sampson receives a signed copy of Ambasadora from Heidi Ruby Miller

K. Ceres Wright shows off a poster for COG

Raw Dog author Jason Jack Miller shares a laugh with Dog Star author Matt Betts

K. Ceres Wright signs a copy of COG for Becky Watson

K. Ceres Wright

Amy Culey receives a signed copy of Greenshift from Heidi Ruby Miller

Dog Star authors K. Ceres Wright, Al Wendland, Heidi Ruby Miller, and Matt Betts

Event: In Your Write Mind

June 26-29 • Seton Hill University, Greensburg, PA 
 

Every year Seton Hill hosts a writing workshop that includes classes on various professional writing topics, guest lectures and workshops from industry professionals, pitch sessions a massive book signing (free and open to the public) and a costume ball. This is an excellent way for writers to hone their craft and make connections. To learn more and sign up for the workshop go here.

The MASSIVE author signing is FREE and OPEN to the Public!
Friday, June 27, 7-10pm

DSB authors who will be signing books this year include:
Matt Betts
Heidi Ruby Miller
K. Ceres Wright

In addition to the book signing, Dog Star Books will be debuting THE MAN WHO LOVED ALIEN LANDSCAPES by Albert Wendland.

Stop by to meet our authors and pick up some great summer reads!

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: K. Ceres Wright

K. Ceres Wright
Daughter to a U.S. Army father, K. Ceres Wright has lived in Anchorage, AK; Chicago, IL; Baltimore, MD; Frankfurt, Oberursel, and Munich, Germany; Seoul, Korea; and the Washington Metropolitan Area. She attended undergraduate school at the University of Maryland, College Park, with a double major in economics and finance, then worked for 10 years as a credit and treasury analyst before deciding to change careers.

Wright received her Master's degree in Writing Popular Fiction from Seton Hill University in Greensburg, PA, and COG was her thesis novel for the program. An accomplished poet, Wright's science fiction poem "Doomed" was a nominee for the Rhysling Award, the Science Fiction Poetry Association's highest honor. Her work has appeared in Hazard Yet Forward; Genesis: An Anthology of Black Science Fiction; Many Genres, One Craft; and The 2008 Rhysling Anthology.

She currently works as an editor/writer for a management consulting firm and lives in Crofton, MD, with her son, Ian, and daughter, Chloe. Visit her website at http://www.kcereswright.com and find her on Twitter @KCeresWright.

Author: K. Ceres Wright

AUTHORS

Dog Star Books welcomes author K. Ceres Wright to the pack! DSB acquired Ceres' cyberpunk novel COG. Look for its release in Summer 2013.

K. Ceres Wright signing her contract at Seton Hill's In Your Write Mind Workshop 2012

Cover Reveal: COG by K. Ceres Wright

COVERS

In a futuristic world where personalities can be downloaded at will,
who's a girl to trust?

COG by K. Ceres Wright

Cyberpunk Science Fiction coming from Dog Star Books in Summer 2013

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp
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Many Genres One Craft
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