"The Cosmicomicon" opens the doors to The Orphan Palace

Ted Grau has posted a very wonderful feature on my upcoming novel, The Orphan Palace, on his blog. I hope you'll pop over and see what madness Pulver and Chomu Press are about to release on OCT 19th.

The Orphan Palace has been praised by some of weird fiction's finest writers - Gary McMahon, Simon Strantzas, and Robin Spriggs . . . And none other than, Michael Cisco, wrote the foreward to TOP.

http://cosmicomicon.blogspot.com/2011/09/coming-in-october-ophan-palace-by.html

Laird Barron edits new 1/4ly journal! !!

Laird Barron has chosen!!! We promised an author announcement here at "Phantasmagorium", and we always deliver. The first issue of "Phantasmagorium" will contain works by:

1. Stephen Graham Jones author of "Demon Theory" (www.demontheory.net)
2. Scott Nicolay author of "Ana Kai Tangata" (www.aklopress.org)
3. Joe Pulver author of "Blood Will Have Its Season" (www.thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com)
...4. Simon Strantzas author of "Beneath the Surface" (www.strantzas.com)
5. Anna Tambour author of "Spotted Lily" (www.annatambour.net)
6. Genevieve Valentine author of "The Nearest Thing" (www.genevievevalentine.com)

Look for it soon!!!

http://www.phantasmagorium.co/

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/

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/

Simon Strantzas on "SIN & ashes"

Highly-acclaimed author, Simon Stranzas, was kind enough, after reading my new collection, SIN & ashes, to say the following:

"Joseph S Pulver, Sr. is a thunderous scribe of dark fiction. His poetry slams into you, cracking through flesh and bone to the real meat beneath. SIN & ashes is his mighty hammer, deftly wielded and smithed on Hephaestus's great anvil. This is no book for the faint of heart. Filled with hard boiled goodness and devastating imagery, Pulver proves his is a talent to be reckoned with, and cements his rightful place as one of the most interesting voices in the genre. I am both awed and humbled by his power."

I am not alone in considering SS to be among the very best writers in "Weird Fiction", so as you might guess, I am humbled and blown away by his praise for my new collection.

Guess I should add, WOW! !! & YAY! !!

Off to go jump for joy for a while... [and reread it 47 more times! !!]

Simon Strantzas BENEATH THE SURFACE

I don't spend much time here talking about other writer's work, but this one I have to mention and highly recommend. Normally I'm wordy as hell, but not this time. Why? Easy -- you need to be on your way to a get a copy of this and not spending time reading about it.

Here's what I will say...

Strantzas = Atmosphere, Atmosphere, Atmosphere! !! + The seasoned subtlety of a literary master and a rich, evocative imagination—a very dark one. Along with Laird Barron and a handful of others, Simon Strantzas does not show you the gate to this new Golden Age of weird fiction that is upon us, but leads you through it. What you encounter on the other side will leave its mark on you. I dare you to look BENEATH THE SURFACE!