Casperian Books Blog

The Guardian’s book section currently has the passages shortlisted for the 2007 Literary Review Bad Sex Award up on its website. I’m not sure what to say other than that it’s given me an entirely new perspective on things. Also, you probably shouldn’t access this link from your place of employment.

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I’m still officially on vacation, but I did sneak onto the computer a few times this past week to put the finishing touches on a cover for one of our spring releases, and I thought it might be interesting for everyone to see how it actually evolved.
The book in question is a satire about death–an […]

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Technically, I’m on vacation this week, though nobody has noticed so far, since I haven’t actually pried my fingers off the keyboard long enough.
Mindful of the fact that I am theoretically not working, I did take some time off yesterday to go to our local SPCA’s biannual fundraiser book sale and returned with whole […]

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One of the side effects of having an author writing in a fairly scary-but-almost-real universe like Manna Francis’ Administration is that, occasionally, I have edits like this:
Really, really important question: are you terribly attached to that [unusual in the English-speaking world] name for the torture victim? Only, I think my sister might get all paranoid […]

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Wow! Our entire first print run of Mind Fuck is very close to selling out. As of today, I have two copies left that aren’t taken. We have more books on the way, but they’ll take about a week or so to get here. In the meantime, I just received the brand-new never-before-seen novella that […]

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