I have a book to start today, and a series submission to mail off. 0_0

I was looking at some of the ‘dealers’ at Atsuicon, and noticed the publisher “Demented Dragon”. I checked out their titles, most of which are crap—well, to be honest, I was completely unimpressed with all of them…but then I found Sean Michael Wilson and Haruka Miyabi’s Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories. I managed to snag a free copy from one of the VA Guests, and I really dig it. The stories are a given, I know most of them, and Wilson’s adaption of them is very easy to read, and Miyabi’s artwork was very done, it just blended with the plot styling—it was so unlike everything else Demented Dragon puts out. {I also found out they often sponsor themselves as guests, which would explain why their creators are listed as guests at so many cons…makes 100% sense now.}

If you’re starting out and you’ve got a book that’s not niche-porn, you might want to give them a try. The production values weren’t bad, you get an ISBN, you’ll get on Amazon, and this company PROMOTES! They’re at every con you can think of; they use the tried and true method of getting you, the creator, into talking about what you do—thus gaining panel space, and a guest spot—then you sit at their table in the dealer’s room. That’s not a bad gig. I don’t know what the pay is like, I’ve never submitted to them… LOL! I should try though, just to see how they work.

But I highly recommend Lafcadio Hearn’s Japanese Ghost Stories