SIN & ashes - news and reviews

[Joe Pulver]

TLO's own highly-acclaimed author, Richard Gavin, will be reviewing SIN & ashes for the next volume of "DEAD RECKONINGS". Richard is among a handful of acclaimed writers who are reading SIN as I type this. In an email he said, "I've enjoyed what I've read thus far. :-)".

SIN & ashes has received its 1st review. "STRANGE AEONS" magazine has just posted this RAVE reviewon FB. The review will run in "SA" #4. To say I'm delighted and humbled falls way short of understatement.

"SIN & Ashes, the new collection of short stories by Joe Pulver Sr., is a heady blend of rock ‘n roll, sex, death, and insanity. Inside its pages Pulver offers us a dance through the ribbons of his mind. And we accept, because there is something about his vision of a world, so dark and yet so vividly colorful, that is impossible to resist. Each word is delivered in that uniquely poetic style of his, giving us a glimpse into the seedy underbelly of urban decay and rural despair; daring us to consider if it is really human nature that has brought us so low or if otherworldly hands from Carcosa or R’lyeh might have played some role in our downfall.

He opens with "Love Her Madly", then barrels ahead like a loosed bull through a land of serial murderers and revenge and cold, cold torture. The tension ebbs and flows as the pages turn; sometimes bitter and terse, other times graceful and melodic, but in every vibrant phrase you sense a hint of something dangerous and feral, just waiting to snare you. Like the slightly too-sweet smell of fruit just before it begins to rot, his words, even when they are breathlessly beautiful, teeter on the edge of lunacy and depravity.

It’s an effect that is hard to duplicate but that just makes it all the more impressive.

The overall style of SIN & Ashes brings to mind the prose of Poppy Z. Brite. The imagery in the fantasy tale Crow in Trick Town specifically conjures memories of her work in Wormwood and Drawing Blood. It isn’t everyone who can fabricate metaphors for sounds or textures or tastes and tell us how they look or hear. That’s the realm of poetry, not storytelling, yet Pulver blends the two disciplines with expert finesse. He has a talent of giving a single word a myriad of meanings, which makes it hard to return to our reality of concrete and glass, where everything is as it looks.

Unfortunately it IS only a book and it, like everything else that is physical, can only go on for so long. However, he leaves us on a high note with a delicious closing tapestry of rock n’ roll and Robert Chambers. Fans of both will be left with such an inspiring thrill of excitement that it will ensure the next installment Joe Pulver Sr. will be met with rabid book lust."

--Jena Pittman

SheNeverSlept.com will be posting a review of SIN in the new few days. Word is the review is a rave. It will be closely followed by an interview w/ me.

I'll be posting updates here at TLO, on my blog, and on FB where SIN now has a community page.

My blog is here:

http://thisyellowmadness.blogspot.com/

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[Joe Pulver]

SheNeverSlept.com has posted a review of my new collection, SIN & ashes. It a a 5 out of 5 rave. http://sheneverslept.com/newsandrevi...h-s.-pulver-sr.

[LadyLovecraft]

Seems there was a lunar eclipse and in the BLACKESS BLACK ***SIN & ashes*** was thrust into the world . . . In Stock at Amazon! !!

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[Joe Pulver]

a lot of link things in that post, LL Danke!

[LadyLovecraft]

Here's more news: "Just Another Desert Night With Blood" from SIN & ashes just made it to "The Best Horror of the Year, Volume 3"! Seems Ms. Datlow likes Joe's writing more and more each year ... Congrats!

[Joe Pulver]

In addition to being privileged enough to have Ellen Datlow buy one of my texts for her Year’s Best Horror #3 she also gave me 10 "Honorable Mentions" --Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Devil’s Got the Walkin’ Blues,” SIN & ashes.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Engravings,” Black Wings.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “First There Is a Mountain…Then” SIN & ashes.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “In the White Walls of Silence,” SIN & ashes. Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Lonesome Separate Ways,” SIN & ashes.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Perfect Grace,” SIN & ashes.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “Scarlet Obeisance,” (poem) The Tindalos Cycle.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “The Delirium of a Worm-Wizard,” (poem) SIN & ashes.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “The Last Few Nights in a Life of Frost,” The Weird Fiction Review 1, fall.Pulver, Sr. Joseph S. “When the Deal Goes Down,” SIN & ashes.

[Joe Pulver]

Editor Ross E. Lockhart at Night Shade Books has a tome coming the fall. It's called _The Book of Cthulhu_. It will include my short story "To Live and Die in Arkham".My pals, Laird Barron and Wilum Hopfrog Pugmire have tales in this as well. This will make to 2 tales of mine in NSB tomes this year.

[Joe Pulver]

Sarah at SheNeverSlept.com has informed me that my new collection from Hippocampus Press, SIN & ashes has won one of the 2010 Nightmare Awards for best collection of short tales and/or poetry. I am pleased.

My thanks to Alnna Quinn for her very kind review of SIN & ashes on the SNS site! !!

CONGRATS to all the other winners as well! !!

[LadyLovecraft]

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[Joe Pulver]

Some news about SIN & ashes -

My new collection from Hippocampus Press (2010), SIN & ashes has won one of SheNeverSlept.com’s 2010 Nightmare Awards for best collection of “short tales and/or poetry”. My thanks to Alnna Quinn for her very kind review of SIN & ashes on the SNS site.

http://sheneverslept.com/newsandreviews/archives/4164

In addition to selecting “Just Another Desert Night With Blood” for her The Best HOROR of the Year vol 3 (Nightshade Books 2011), Ellen Datlow, in the "Mixed Genre Collections" section of Best HORROR’s SUMMATIONS 2010 called SIN “a deliciously varied and ambitious collection”.

Ross E. Lockhart, the editor of The Book of Cthulhu, has bought my tale, “To Live and Die In Arkham” , for his upcoming Night Shade Books anthology coming this fall.

TLO’s own, Richard Gavin will be reviewing SIN in “Dead Reckonings” #9 (Hippocampus Press Spring 2011). Of SIN, he says, “With prose that hovers somewhere between the hard-boiled crime genre, poetry, and the sheer lawlessness of Dadaism, Pulver’s work is truly sui generis, so much so that it almost defies classification. This brazen originality is given a hefty exhibition in Sin & Ashes.” and “If you are a reader who seeks lulling escapism, this book offers no such creature comfort. Pulver tales are not the kind of stories one slips into like a warm bath. They are splashes of frigid water, which constantly jar and twist rather than flow headlong. This is what makes Sin & Ashes such a potent volume. Pulver is a writer who takes risks with each story he fashions, which in turn makes reading them exceptionally rewarding.”

Dead Reckonings : Hippocampus Press

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