Several readers have asked about my haul from the paperback show. Here you go:


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I just received a galley of the Pulp Press edition of Gil Brewer’s FLIGHT TO DARKNESS because I was asked to provide a blurb. For Gil Fucking Brewer. Am I the only person who thinks this is ass backwards? Brewer was pounding out raunchy pulp before I was the proverbial gleam in my daddy’s eye. It oughta be me asking him for a blurb (if he were ( Read more... )

Check out this spectacular vintage paperback diorama by Thomas Allen:


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Pulp Santa came early this year. Look what I found in my stocking!


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I just scored another load of cheap Shell Scott spares and reading copies from the world’s greatest used bookstore. I’m trying not to obsess on scoring every cover permutation of every title, since that way lies damnation, but even though I already have several copies of Dead Man’s Walk, I had to pick up this one too, just for the stunningly ( Read more... )

Started the day with coffee at a wonderfully grungy little South Street joint called The Bean Cafe. It ain’t Starbucks, and that’s a good thing. I spent a very entertaining half hour people watching from my perch under this astounding serial killer painting of Hall and Oates.


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The good news is that the Black Ace vintage paperback show is this Sunday. The bad news is that the Black Ace vintage paperback show is this Sunday. Bad news for my wallet anyway. I’m dead broke after all this traveling, but I know I’m not going to be able to resist picking up one or two. Or five. Or seven.

OK, I really need this! I love that they did both the earlier, suave classic Wentworth version and the more demented, fanged later version.

Meanwhile I’ve suddenly got galleys aplenty here at the House of Faust. Galleys for MONEY SHOT and for HELL OF A WOMAN, the new antho from Busted Flush, are both awaiting my attention, plus I’ve got my latest ( Read more... )