Robin Spriggs on TOP......................... .!

One of weird fiction's VERY BEST -- the ultimate diabolist! !!, Robin Spriggs, has the following to say about TOP --

"Mad, malevolent, and incantatory, The Orphan Palace reads like the hagridden fever dream of one who has not only stared the Abyss in Its black and fathomless face, but welcomed Its gaze in return . . . and become Its living embodiment. It is a journey to be taken by none but the bravest of readers, and by souls with an ardent desire to savor their own damnation." --Robin Spriggs, author of Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist

You can find Robin here:

http://www.houseofnine.com/


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Spriggs


http://www.amazon.com/gp/search/ref=sr_tc_2_0?rh=i%3Astripbooks%2Ck%3ARobin+Spriggs&keywords=Robin+Spriggs&ie=UTF8&qid=1314398414&sr=1-2-ent&field-contributor_id=B001KCA8PY

Andrea Bonazzi creates "Robert W. Chambers creates Pulver"! !!

Our beloved Mad GENIUSSsssssssssssssssssss, Andrea Bonazzi, made this! !! Over the moon AM I! ~~!! Many know & LOVE(!!!!!!!!!!!!~!) his Lovecraftian montages, to be in one is a rare joy!! ~!

ThanksSSSS.S.SSS.S..S;Ss, Andrea! !!

THE ORPHAN PALACE (Book Trailer)

Pearce Hansen on SIN & ashes

"SIN & ASHES is a scathing collection. Jarring and unsettling from the git go, Joe refuses to allow the comfort of standard story structure to interfere with his assault on the reader."

"I'm in love with this man's work. This is not for you if you prefer bland, `normal' horror writing - but IMHO he is one of the most important voices in the genre today (if you can even impose the term `genre' on a style so personal and sincere). "

How does one say anything after a praise like that? Amazing talents like Tom Ligotti, Laird Barron, Ellen Datlow, Paul Tremblay, Simon Strantzas, [and a dozen others! !!] have praised my work, and I was over the moon --still am!! !-- but this is no less humbling.
Pearce is one of hardboiled’s BEST! His novel, STREET RAISED, is a monster! Dynamic, authentic [and HONEST], vivid to a degree where the words fly off the page like bullets and tears, his novel is an “astonishing” showcase of his awe-inducing talent as a writer. The last time a hardboiled debut impressed me this much was Will Beal’s L. A. Rex. That another giant would gift me with this kind of praise, well, it leaves me without words. So I’ll just say, thank you.


Doubt I’ll ever get used to praise and I sure as hell do not want to, but I will confess, it makes all those hours (and the fears) worth it!

His full review of SIN is here:

http://www.amazon.com/review/R1QLY6O4C1G8BR/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_asr_u0-JC.1EQKY5N

Pearce Hansen on SIN & ashes

"SIN & ASHES is a scathing collection. Jarring and unsettling from the git go, Joe refuses to allow the comfort of standard story structure to interfere with his assault on the reader."

 "I'm in love with this man's work. This is not for you if you prefer bland, `normal' horror writing - but IMHO he is one of the most important voices in the genre today (if you can even impose the term `genre' on a style so personal and sincere). "

How does one say anything after a praise like that? Amazing talents like Tom Ligotti, Laird Barron, Ellen Datlow, Paul Tremblay, Simon Strantzas, [and a dozen others! !!] have praised my work, and I was over the moon --still am!! !-- but this is no less humbling.

Pearce is one of hardboiled’s BEST! His novel, STREET RAISED, is a monster! Dynamic, authentic [and HONEST], vivid to a degree where the words fly off the page like bullets and tears, his novel is an “astonishing” showcase of his awe-inducing talent as a writer.  The last time a hardboiled debut impressed me this much was Will Beal’s L. A. Rex. That another giant would gift me with this kind of praise, well, it leaves me without words. So I’ll just say, thank you.


Doubt I’ll ever get used to praise and I sure as hell do not want to, but I will confess, it makes all those hours (and the fears) worth it!

His full review of SIN is here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1QLY6O4C1G8BR/ref=cm_sw_r_fa_asr_u0-JC.1EQKY5N

" You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them." ~ Ray Bradbury.

Today is Ray's birthday!  He is and will remain one of our most gifted writers!! And I was so thrilled for him -- 91! !! Hot damn! I hope he's good for 90 more! !! . . . Then Liz Hand (another writer w/ gifts as important as air! !!) posted this and bye-bye happy . . .

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/22/are-books-dead-ewan-morrison

Are book dying? Will they die? Will writers? ??

You are the reader. Make that THE READER! We sit and write, we dream of sharing w/ YOU! !! I hope you need and want us, I know we NEED YOU! !! How do you keep us breathing, singing? Simple. SHOUT IT OUT LOUD! RAGE HARD! !! Tell Ma, tell Pa, and your friends. Write reviews, LIKE books you love, share the links. You have the power to click and send a message . . .

"If" [shuttters] books are dying, you are the heart of the revolution. Your comments count! People and venues like Amazion take notice. And when they do a writer you like, or love, sells another book, and maybe gets to write another book . . . And we need books.

WHY?

Because if we do not have books we do not have writers--magicians!, and what would happen if we never had Ray? ????  ?????     ???????      ??? ? ???? ???  ? Or a hundred others you can name off the top or your head . . . Think about no Ray, or no Hesse, or no Fowles. No Ellison or Leiber or Zelzny. No Harper Lee. No Brackett.  No Mary Shelly [Just kill me now!] . . . Insert a name you LOVE -- how do you feel?

Books are not luxuries, they are the messengers of FELT and dreams and YOU & I need to dream. W/out our dreams this world is The Abyss.

Please, go LIKE a book, like a writer. SHARE! !! SHOUT IT OUT LOUD!

We are you. We hope we speak for you and to you, and we hope we gift you w/ dreams.

You are the READER! You are the REVOLUTION! BURN! Go out and raise the torch of BOOKS! !!

TOP stuff [Pt. 78.2]

T- 60 days and The Orphan Palace arrives........................

We now have a cover............. . . which I've been posting all over the net :) And Chomu Press have updated the TOP page on their site.

http://chomupress.com/our-books/the-orphan-palace/


Amazon has added a TOP page as well . . . You can't pre-order it yet, but soon! !!  And it is even listed on Amazon JAPAN -- NEAT! !! Now we just need an Amazon CHINA? ??

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1907681116/chomu-20/ref=nosim

She Never Slept will be doing a review of TOP very soon. I'll post the link when it goes up! !! Don't forget there's a contest/giveaway going on at SNS. They have 3 copies of TOP to giveaway. Pop over and see how to win one.

http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/6764

And Ted E. Grau over at "The Cosmicomicon" will be doing a little TOP feature very soon . . .

http://cosmicomicon.blogspot.com/

And a little nightgaunt tells me that one of the best writers of WEIRD fiction, Simon Strantzas, will be stopping by here soon w/ a guest blog, and he just might mention TOP. You are reading Simon, right? If you're not, you sure NEED to be! !!

http://www.strantzas.com/

the cold bleak facts

...just the cold bleak facts . . . for those who dare look into the abyssssssssssssssssssSsssssssssssssssss...
http://chomupress.com/our-books/the-orphan-palace/

We have books to give you.........................

At She Never Slept we're giving away 3 copies of my new novel, The Orphan Palace [and maybe(! !!) some Xtras]... Go see how to win one and what the Xtras are! !! And GOOD LUCK! ~!!


Here's the contest link:

http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/6764

A new interview! !!

Giesterspigel.de has a new interview w/ me -- IN GERMAN! !!

I'd say YAYyyyyyyyyyy! !! & YIPPIE*! ~~!, but not sure how to spell them in German :)

http://www.geisterspiegel.de/index.html?background/interviews/interview_mit_joseph_s_pulver_sr.html~mainFrame

Simon [Strantzas] says

The Orphan Palace kicks you in the face and doesn't stop. Pulver's prose sees the world through a cracked lense of 60's hedonism and 70's grit, with a side order of unshakable terror. A serial killer novel that explores the dark side of America via Kerouac in a shell of cosmic horror. What he does is electrifying. I've never seen anything like it. My hair is still standing on end.

--Simon Strantzas, author of Nightingale Songs


http://chomupress.com/our-books/the-orphan-palace/

She Never Slept reviews "Strange Aeons" magazine! !!

http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/6730

"STRANGE AEONS" is a rare delight! !! I'm proud and humbled to be part of it, as a contributor. as a reader I'm simply thrilled! ~!! She Never Slept, the wonderful review site for HORROR and LOVECRAFTIAN wonders, be they books or film or joyous trinkets, has reviewed all the issues and it is, as it should be[! !!], a RAVE! !!

Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire on TOP! !!

This just in, one of WEIRD fiction's best writers has read TOP and had this to say --

"Joe Pulver's poetic prose is hypnotic and intoxicating, so beautiful
and strange that it transports the reader. Yet it does the work of
creating fascinating characters and telling story. Story-telling is an
art, and none are more accomplished than Pulver. Weird fiction's primal
duty is to fuck [alternative word: debauch] your brain and kiss your
sense of wonder. This book has done that for me, as few horror novels
have. Absolutely brilliant."
--Wilum Pugmire

cover art for THE ORPHAN PALACE

Peter Diamond did the wonderful wrap around art for my new novel

You can find Peter here:

http://www.peterdiamond.ca/

TOP news at CHOMU PRESS is here! !!

http://chomupress.com/our-books/the-orphan-palace/