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Selina's Publishing Company - The Yard Dog Press

Selina Rosen is 41 years old and lives in rural Arkansas with her partner of 10 years on what the yuppies like to call a micro farm. She gardens, tends animals, and enjoys building things from trash and concrete.

In addition to being the mother of a 20 year old son, Selina is an accomplished heavy weapons fighter, a novice fencer, and a Torah scholar. She has worked in construction, home health care, at a pallet mill running an industrial plane, in a salvage yard pulling parts, and as a stand up comedian opening for drag shows -- just to name a few. Among the more eclectic things that she's done, she's worked timbering with an old John Deer and a team of mules, and helped to brand cattle.

Selina first started writing when she was 12 and started submitting at age 21, but she didn't make her first professional sale till she was 28. She and her partners started Yard Dog Press in March of 96 with Yard Dog Comics which put out 6 issues a year for 4 years. From the comic book they moved on to chap books and finally to perfect bound trade paper backs.

From the beginning her motto has been, "If the main-stream press will take it, we don't want it." The goal of the press has been to go beyond the politically correct, watered down trite crap that the big houses pump out like water. To give writers the chance to write what they truly want to write, and readers a chance to read it. They struck gold when they published a novel Brian Hopkins had been having no luck selling. The novel, entitled The Licking Valley Coon Hunters Club, became the first book ever to be nominated in both the "best first novel" and "best novel" categories for a Stoker award. It won for best first novel.

Selina's short fiction has appeared in... Marian Zimmer Bradley's Fantasy Magazine, Sword and Sorceress 16, The Distant Journeys anthology, Such A Pretty Face, and Personal Demons to name a few. Available from Yard Dog Press are a collection of her short stories (The Bubba Chronicles), her horror novels (The Host, Fright Eater, and Gang Approval), a futuristic sci/fi police procedural (Fire & Ice), and a novella length chap book (The Boat Man). Yard Dog also publishes two anthologies she edited, Stories That Won't Make Your Parents Hurl , a non-PC collection of children's stories, and Bubbas of The Apocalypse, a shared universe anthology.

Her science fiction novels, Queen Of Denial and Chains of Freedom were published by Meisha Merlin Publishing, and Mieshia Merlin will be releasing Chains Of Destruction in May of 2002, Recycled ( a sequel to Queen of Denial) in 2003, and Chains of Deliverance in 2004.

All of her books can be purchased signed and/or personalized, most cheaply and with the most benefit to the writer and the publishers from the Yard Dog Press web site http://www.yarddogpress.com.