The book is Decomposition, by J Eric Miller, with an epilogue by Susannah Breslin that started out as a foreword, but the book is rather iconoclastic so things just didn't end up that way. It's a story of a young woman who, having killed her emotionally distant boyfriend, tosses his body in the trunk and hits the road to find the good ex-boyfriend that always treated her right. The book is rather short, barely 110 pages, which makes for easy reading. Miller has been a short-story writer for quite a while, producing a critically acclaimed book Animal Rights and Pornography and teaching writing in Colorado. If you're near Augusta State University, he's speaking at the Sandhills Writers Conference, whose horrible, horrible website tells you nothing, so he could be speaking tonight, or tomorrow, or Saturday.

And, just a recap of other books we've got out: The Suburban Diva: From the Real Side of the Picket Fence has sold a couple hundred copies in its first month of availability, which is our biggest seller so far and a nice start for a fledgling publisher. We've heard rumours that a fan took it to New York to hang out outside the windows of a network morning show, and managed to get a copy to one of the anchors. W00t!

In our erotica genre of books, Jude Mason's Dance of Submission isn't selling as fast as we'd like, but the readers of BDSM slavery erotica are fewer and further between than one might think.

And, I suppose I never have mentioned our reprints: we've only got two out at the moment, Famous Hussies of History and The Masculine Cross. Hussies is a collection of short autobiographies of influential historical women, written wittily (originally for a magazine) by the author of the Lad collie books. Masculine Cross is a pantheistic analysis of the Cross across religions, and the inevitable (yet sometimes specious) realization that the cross is phallic in nature, sometimes funny, but sometimes eye-opening.

Oh, wait -- this is a blog -- I gotta throw in some self-aggrandizing comments. First of all, every book is electronically typeset by me, and all the covers are designed by me (even if I didn't create the original art). Unlike a lot of reprints, who are essentially photocopies of the original pages, I convert the scanned pages to computer text, which creates crisper, easier-to-read text and allows us to change book size & number of pages without affecting the text itself. The original books, of course, come to me as email attachments from the editors, to which I add page size, margins, page numbers, running headers and footers, and all the trappings of the book world.

Typesetting is a more involved project than you might think: When you open Word or Works and start typing a long document, the computer just lets you type, on and on and on, maybe making it look like you've rolled across onto another page as you typed, when in fact you're just typing a long string of text on a page. You're not concerned about where things actually fall on the page because you trust the computer to handle that for you, and when you hit 'print,' it comes out on paper and doesn't run over the edges and is big enough to read, so you're happy. Typesetting for a book involves imagining what this long string of text in the computer will look like when chopped up into little 30-line chunks, approximately 60 characters in each line, and spread out on the fronts and backs of facing pages. It's a rather foreign concept from a computer standpoint (backs of pages? can you print on those?), but I'm getting the hand of it, along with research and reading that's given me a number of tips.

So, we're an official publisher now: go search for my name in the Library of Congress database under "Command Keyword" -- I've got four entries already! We've got books being sold all over, in college bookstores and online, maybe in the hands of Good Morning America, and we're hoping this keeps up. We're eventually aiming for a book every two weeks...we'll see if we can get there by the end of the year.