Tag Archives: Dorchester Publishing

Amazon to Acquire Dorchester

Amazon is currently the only bidder in a deal to take over the remains of Dorchester Publishing, in a plan to pay owed back royalties and continue offering the defunct publisher's books for sale... Read more [...]

Most Popular and Updated Articles: 29 January-4 February 2012

The most popular SFScope articles during the last week and month, as well as those which were updated... Read more [...]

Dorchester Publishing has no more editors

The last of the editorial staff has left Dorchester Publishing, signaling that the long-time paperback publisher may be giving up the ghost... Read more [...]

Don D’Auria lands at Samhain

Don D'Auria, who had been at Dorchester until the company dropped its print publishing line, has been hired to oversee Samhain's new horror line... Read more [...]

Dorchester author Angie Fox reclaims book rights to self publish

Angie Fox may be the first Dorchester author since the company's shift to e-publishing to reclaim the rights to her book and self-publish it... Read more [...]

Hard Case Crime moving to new home

Hard Case Crime, which published Stephen King's The Colorado Kid (basis for the tv series Haven) was caught up in Dorchester's sudden withdrawal from paperback publishing. Now it will be revived under Titan Books... Read more [...]

Leah Hultenschmidt lands at Sourcebooks’ Casablanca

Former Dorchester editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt has been hired by Sourcebooks as a senior editor for their Casablanca romance imprint... Read more [...]

Is the “shift to e-book publishing” a death knell for Dorchester?

Dorchester Publishing, which recently announced it was switching from mass market to e-book publishing, has just laid off editorial director Leah Hultenschmidt and senior editor Don D'Auria... Read more [...]

Dorchester Publishing reveals its next six months’ worth of titles

Dorchester Publishing will be releasing two horror novels a month for the next six months, along with a nice selection of paranormal romances, and a few... Read more [...]

Horror novel writing contest

Leisure Books, Rue Morgue magazine, and ChiZine are co-sponsoring a contest for unpublished horror writers. Grand prize includes a publication contract with Leisure and ChiZine Publications... Read more [...]

Dorchester to offer much of their catalog as ebooks

Independent mass market publisher Dorchester will now be offering a good percentage of their catalog as ebooks in a variety of formats... Read more [...]

Create a book trailer for SHOMI and win distribution and recognition

Dorchester Publishing is teaming up with Circle of Seven Productions in a contest to find a book trailer for one of their SHOMI books. Stephen King will judge... Read more [...]