by Michael H. Hanson To quote Claus Appel: “If you read Lovecraft, you will notice that he carefully stacks the deck against the occasional unlucky soon-to-be-psychologically-challenged protagonist. Said characters tend to be ‘educated,’ ‘isolated,’ and end up in ‘mortal danger.’ These characters experience a long string of escalating disquieting discoveries which, coupled with isolation, leaves…
Copper Dog Publishing is hosting its largest Book Launch Event to date on Facebook. The festivities start at 7:00 PM EST USA on Saturday, December 16, 2017. Fun Contests and FREE Prizes will be given away in a series of online contests. All are Welcome! The first book being launched is the Kindle Version of…
Are autographed hardcover copies of Roger Zelazny novels flooding the current online used book market? As of this moment, the answer appears to be YES. You might call it a renaissance in the availability of these once hard to find gems, you might call it serendipity for the formerly unlucky Roger Zelazny fan, or, more…
This is how I honor and carry on a minor Roger Zelazny literary tradition…. If you’ve read the Roger Zelazny short story “The Stainless Steel Leech” (first published under the pseudonym Harrison Denmark) then you might remember its wonderful closing line… ‘It is a proud and lonely thing to be a stainless steel leech.’ ———- [From…
Last blog we discussed manned space flight on the theme that we humans have to directly experience things. More on that line… To anyone who has seen the Mona Lisa in person, seeing it on TV or in an art book is meaningless. The original cannot be captured, it must be experienced. Perhaps a…
On Gender A writer friend of mine turned to me after reading My Outcast State and said. “You know it would never have occurred to me to make the robot female.” I was surprised and said that it would never have occurred to me not to. The dynamics of human nature are much more…
ON THE ORIGINS OF MAAURO: the combat android built by the long gone race she calls ‘The Creators’ Hmmn, how to discuss this without generating spoilers? Well I will just have to give it a go. Maauro, like so many things, came from the failure of a prior project. I had decided to write a…
Copper Dog Publishing is happy to announce the kick-off of its brand new Website, featuring pages for all three of its imprints: Moondream Press, Racket River Press, and Pumpkin Hill Press. Now you can purchase books directly from our site or click through to purchase on Amazon.com.