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Short, Sharp Interview: Dominic Milne
PDB: What’s going on now? Right now is kind of mayhem. Just had the release of the Eddie Kane trilogy, so trying to push what feels like a million buttons at once. Fantastic stuff though – really...
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A Story For Sunday: JUST A MATTER OF TIME BY B. R. STATEHAM
B. R. Stateham‘s Smitty is back at PULP METAL MAGAZINE. ‘ We walked out of the neon glare of the hospital’s front door and sank into the gloom of the hot still night like unwanted nightmares. Neither...
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A Story For Sunday: A Red Lipstick by Cormac Brown
‘Gold, black, green and purple spots. When they are part of an Impressionist painting, they are beautiful, but Lara’s skin is not a canvas by Monet. No, in the dingy light of the diner bathroom, her...
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Recommended Read: Wake Up, Time To Die by Chris Rhatigan
Wake Up, Time To Die by Chris Rhatigan is a corkscrewed collection of 12 darkly comic short stories that masterfully mixes the mundane with the bizarre. There are lives of quiet desperation, small time...
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Recommended Read: Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman by Rowdy Yates
With their latest offering, NEW PULP PRESS once again prove themselves to be one of the best crime fiction publishers around . Bring Me the Head of Yorkie Goodman, Rowdy Yates’s brilliant, whip-crack...
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Short, Sharp Interview: Jame DiBiasio
PDB: What’s going on now? JD: First, Paul, thank you for including me in your Short & Sharp series. I enjoy reading it, and if you’d ever like to guest-post at my blog, Asia Hacks, the floor is...
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Recommended Read: Bourbon & Blondes: Vintage Noir & Pulp by Anthony Venutolo
There is certainly no shortage of bourbon and blondes in Anthony Venutolo‘s brilliant collection of short stories and flash fiction. But there’s also much, much more. There’s jazz and torch songs,...
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Short, Sharp Interview: Rowdy Yates
PDB: What’s going on now? A lot, actually. I just finished my first literary thriller, a novel about a rogue NSA agent who finds himself in the middle of a giant conspiracy and am about to start work...
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Recommended Read: A Killing Kiss by B R Stateham.
An ice cold killer is hired to protect a dead mob boss’ family. Cue blood- splattered shoot-outs, sharp twists and a great protagonist. B.R. Stateham’s Smitty is a classic hard-boiled pulp/ noir...
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Recommended Read: Crooked Roads by Alec Cizak
The stories in Alec Cizak’s Crooked Roads are brilliant, brutal and poignant. There is the classic small town noir of ‘State Road 33’ and ‘My Kind Of Town’, hard-boiled revenge in ‘A Matter Of Time’,...
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Recommended Read: The White Flamingo by James A. Newman
In James A. Newman’s The White Flamingo, Detective Joe Dylan investigates the gruesome murder of one of Fun City’s many call girls and quickly realizes that there is a serial killer on the loose in Fun...
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Recommended Read: All Due Respect Magazine 6
The sixth issue of All Due Respect Magazine is another beaut slice of pure hardboiled fiction. You get gamblers, wrestlers, bank robbers, juvenile delinquents, drunks, and double crosses galore. Every...
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Publishing News!
Okey dokey, it’s going to be a hot time on the old publishing front over the next year or so. Caffeine Nights Publishing will be putting out Cold London Blues, a follow up to Guns Of Brixton. As GOB...
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Recommended Read: The Retro Look by Albert Tucher
Albert Tucher’s Dana Andrews is one of crime fiction’s undiscovered gems. In The Retro Look – one of more than fifty Dana Andrews stories – the call-girl heads to Atlantic City with one of her...
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Mystery People take a look at Dead Pimp In A Trunk
Mystery People take a look at my most recent Shotgun Honey yarn Dead Pimp In A Trunk. Check it out!Filed under: Crime Fiction, flash fiction, Mystery People, noir, Paul D Brazill, pulp fiction, Short...
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Recommended Read: Love You To A Pulp by C S DeWildt
Glue sniffing private eye Neil Chambers is hired to track down a small town pharmacist’s errant daughter and things very quickly spiral violently out of control. In Love You To A Pulp, CS DeWildt...
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Recommended Read: Gator Bait by Adam Howe
‘I fled the city: Two fingers short and sworn off dames for life.’ From its brilliant opening Adam Howe‘s short n sharp novella Gator Bait grabs you by the throat and drags you through the down and...
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Guest Blog: THE DAMN DIRTY APES CONTROVERSY BY ADAM HOWE
ADAM HOWE VS. THE SOCIETY FOR THE PRESERVATION OF THE NORTH AMERICAN SKUNK APE Writing for the indie press, without an advertising budget for promotion, the best an up-and-coming writer can hope is...
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Short, Sharp Interview: Graham Wynd
PDB: What’s going on now? Satan’s Sorority is out NOW from Number 13 Press! I just came back from Bouchercon where I gave out loads of ‘I’m pledging Sigma Tau Nu’ badges, plus I got to read from my...
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Recommended Read: Satan’s Sorority by Graham Wynd
In 1950’s America, Sandra’s parents send her off to a small town university in order to keep her out of trouble. While there she encounters Trixie Faust and the rest of the Sigma Tau Nu sorority....
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