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Friday, February 5, 2016

BOOK: Starrie (From the World of Ambasadora) by Heidi Ruby Miller

BOOKS

STARRIE IS AVAILABLE FOR PREORDER FROM DOG STAR BOOKS!!

In this caste-ruled society, where multiple partners are the norm, celebrity, beauty, and power mean everything. Love and jealousy are considered emotional fallacies, nothing more than fleeting moods and sentiments biased by hormones. But sometimes people just fall in love...and that can be deadly.

Ben Anlow and his team embark on a revenge mission to bring down serial murderer and rapist, Liu Stavros, at his fortress in the inhospitable mountains of Tampa Three. But contractor Naela Starrie already has her own kind of vengeance planned for Stavros. Even as a battle-hardened soldier, Ben's not prepared for the darkness he sees in the female assassin, nor the way she challenges his prejudices about her people when she makes a sacrifice to save to his life.

COVER ART by Bradley Sharp

FOREWORD by Jason Jack Miller
Find out more about this new novel on the STARRIE page at Heidi's site.

Wednesday, February 4, 2015

WORKSHOP: Science Fiction in Thrillers by Heidi Ruby Miller at Pennwriters 2015

Heidi Ruby Miller is presenting part of her Science Fiction in Thrillers class from Seton Hill's MFA in Writing Popular Fiction program for the 2015 Pennwriters Conference, Building Bridges.

Here is the description:
Where would you shelve a book about scientists cloning dinosaurs for a theme park or a man turning into a chimera or how about the unleashing of a zombie plague? I asked authors and editors for insights into how the industry categorizes thrillers with expansive science fictional elements. If you write these types of stories, where do you think you fit in?

The Pennwriters Conference is in Pittsburgh this year on the weekend of May 15 - 17 at the Pittsburgh Airport Marriott. Keynote speaker is Ridley Pearson. For a full list of workshops, peruse the website.

Thursday, July 31, 2014

ANNOUNCEMENT: Dog Star Books to Release J.L. Gribble's STEEL VICTORY

STEEL VICTORY
Dog Star Books is pleased to announce we have signed a deal to release J.L. Gribble’s debut novel Steel Victory in 2015.

Originally a thesis novel from Seton Hill University’s Writing Popular Fiction graduate program, Steel Victory is an alternate-history urban fantasy. The independent city-state of Limani is beset from within by human separatists and from without by the territory-hungry Roman Empire. The city’s lone vampire and her adopted warrior-mage daughter must join forces with the other supernatural creatures of Limani to defend their city, their culture, and their very lives.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

J.L. Gribble is fascinated by the construct of the English language. By day, she is a full-time medical editor, in which she wrangles authors and translates medico-babble into something coherent. On the side, she does freelance fiction editing in all genres, along with reading, playing video games, and occasionally even writing. Most recently, she was co-editor of Far Worlds, a speculative fiction anthology.

She lives in Ellicott City, Maryland, with her husband and three vocal Siamese cats. Find her online on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/jlgribblewriter) and Twitter (@hannaedits).

Wednesday, July 2, 2014

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

Tuesday, May 20, 2014

Albert Wendland Named Professor of the Year

Congratulations to Dog Star Books author Albert Wendland who was recently named Professor of the Year by Seton Hill University. Wendland received his award during Spring Convocation and was also honored to give the keynote speech. In true writerly fashion he told a story instead. You can read the text of the speech here.

Wendland has been at Seton Hill for over 30 years and was instrumental in helping to create their unique writing program. He is currently the Director of the Master of Fine Arts in Writing Popular Fiction at Seton Hill University and his first novel, The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes will be released by Raw Dog Screaming Press' science fiction imprint, Dog Star Books, in July.

Monday, March 10, 2014

COVER: The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes by Albert Wendland

PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY!

A science fiction novel that begins as a murder mystery and is taken over by an interstellar treasure hunt.

What could draw poet, explorer, loner and paranoid Mykol Ranglen away from the relative peace of his own ring-in-space habitat?
He has no choice in the matter as one by one acquaintances are murdered or disappear altogether. Propelled by ever changing and deepening mysteries Mykol embarks to uncover secrets which could make people rich beyond their wildest dreams…or tear apart human civilization.

The escalating quest takes him through worlds of many dangerous extremes, leading him to confront the deadly alien Fist of Thorns, extinct species refusing to give up their power over the future, and those racing against him to uncover the secret first. But in the course of his pursuit, he must also face his own secrets. And some of these are even more dangerous.

The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes by Albert Wendland

Cover Art by Bradley Sharp

Foreword by William H. Keith

Space Opera Paperback coming from Dog Star Books in June 2014

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What They’re Saying About The Man Who Loved Alien Landscapes
"Mystery, heart-pounding adventure, and the dazzling wonders of far-flung space play significant roles in Wendland's breakout novel, all while gifting us with a mesmerizing tour of alien landscapes destined to get under your skin and remind you of the very reason science fiction exists: Not to escape to other worlds, but to find ourselves within them."
--Diana Dru Botsford, author of THE DRIFT and FOUR DRAGONS

Inside are alien worlds and titanic space habitats and a brilliant and paranoid hero, all skillfully blended together with long-vanished galactic secrets. Science fiction… good science fiction, by a college professor of literature who loves good SF."
--From the foreword by William H. Keith, New York Times Bestselling Science Fiction Author

Many thanks to our participating bloggers:
Albert Wendland
Caroline Gessner
Cary Caffrey
D A Bale
Deanna Sjolander
Heidi Ruby Miller
Hily's BeeHive
Jason Jack Miller
John Edward Lawson
K.Ceres Wright
Kit 'N Kabookle
Lyndi Alexander - winner of a paperback!
Liz Coley
Maria Hammarblad
Matt Betts
Mike Mehalek
Patrick Stutzman
Sally Bosco
Stephanie Wytovich
T. K. Toppin
Theodore Webb

Monday, January 27, 2014

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)

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

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.

Sunday, June 23, 2013

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:

Thursday, May 2, 2013

EVENT: Heidi Ruby Miller at Frostburg's Coffee with an Author

EVENTS

Have coffee, tea, and pastries with Dog Star Books editor and author Heidi Ruby Miller at Frostburg State University's Creative Writing Center!

Friday, March 22, 2013

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.

Tuesday, February 19, 2013

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

Friday, November 30, 2012

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

Tuesday, October 30, 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 thanks to the following supporters who participated in the COG Cover Reveal:

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