Starlite Pulp's first 7 books :
Available for sale in our shop, Bookshop.org, and on the Barnes & Noble site, as well as Amaz*n--you can also ask your local bookstore to order it for you (we actually recommend this for international readers, they can often get better shipping prices), if you'd like.
American Muse: Starlite Pulp Novellas, Vol. 1: This contains 4 novellas--2 dark westerns and 2 gritty crime yarns, from authors Brian Townsley, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Alex Slusar, and Manny Torres.
Here is an interview from Weird West Fiction with Brian talking about 'Days of Bone, Nights of Ash' from American Muse.
“Sentence by sentence, this is some of the best old-fashioned storytelling I’ve read in ages.” -Charles Ardai, author of Death Comes Too Late, Edgar and Shamus award winner, and editor for Hard Case Crime
"When I was a kid, I bought most of my books at flea markets, anthologies like Alfred Hitchcock Presents…, but sometimes I’d find a book that included two novels by the same author, a Signet Double Mystery. Treasures! In American Muse, Starlite Pulp has rekindled my early joy of reading fiction by marrying one of my favorite forms (the novella) with four vastly different, accomplished writers of genre fiction. Whether it’s the soaring prose of Brian Townsley’s “Days of Bone, Nights of Ash,” with passages that read like a virtuoso’s guitar solo or the Elmore Leonard rope-a-dope prose of Manny Torres’s “The Idiot Caper.” In Alex Slusar’s “The Hot Streak,” a stranger comes to town in the form of an old cowboy movie star, while in Jean-Paul L. Garnier’s “Black Trail Line,” man versus nature in an opening scene that’ll make you want to stay safely indoors. Gripping, smart, and thrilling – these are the kinds of electrifying stories that made me fall in love with reading in the first place. Buy a copy. Hell, buy two."--John McNally, author of The Pinned Butterfly (writing as Johnny Mack) & The Book of Ralph
Starlite Pulp Reviews #1-4: 41 Pulp yarns from Starlite Pulp Alumni Frank Bill, Michael Bracken, Alec Cizak, Eric Esquivel, Gabriel Hart, E. B. Hunter, Nolan Knight, Veronica Leigh, Nevada McPherson, Daniel Pyne, Brian Townsley, James Whelpley, J. Wiltz, Eirik Gumeny, Charlie Jones, Chris Jones, Andrew Miller, P Moss, Eric O' Neal, Michael Ritt, Tim Spadoni, Jim Towns, Craig Clevenger, Jean-Paul L. Garnier, Trevor Holliday, Sean Jacques, Terrance Layhew, Brodie Lowe, Patrick R. McDonough, Jim Ruland, Aaron Paul Schaut, Alex Slusar, C. W. Stevenson, Phillip Thompson, and Manny Torres.
Also, we'd like to recognize and congratulate Michael Bracken, whose story 'Kissing Cousins' in the first Review made the Honor Roll of 10 Other Distinguished Stories in Otto Penzler's Best American Mystery Stories, 2022!
"Starlite Pulp serves down & dirty pulp fiction while keeping it classy with this snazzy collection of bite-size tales that explode off the page. Starlite Pulp Review #1 contains the full range of pulp in all its glory: gritty & engrossing, suspenseful & brutal."
--Nevada McPherson, author of the novels Poser and the upcoming Cracker
"A delightful read...thoroughly enjoyed it. With various genres represented, it avoids becoming repetitive and keeps you hooked."
--Terence Mayhew, host of Suit Up! Podcast
Outlaw Ballads : A Sonny Haynes Collection & A Trunk Full of Zeroes by Brian Townsley
“No hint of wistful noir nostalgia in Townsley’s fine, unflinching prose. This is the real deal. Sonny Haynes is a fresh force of nature, the flawed diamond glimmering truth and trouble in the darkness." -Daniel Pyne, author of Twentynine Palms & Catalina Eddy
“There is a poetry and rhythm and richness of detail within Brian Townsley’s hardboiled writing that can’t be taught and when it comes to post-war Los Angeles, nobody does it better. Sonny Haynes is my kind of noir hero--a leg breaker with a heart of gold, and a character that will stick in your mind long after you’ve finished this gem of a novel. No doubt Townsley is a real deal demon dog of Angeleno crime fiction, and A Trunk Full of Zeroes is Exhibit A.” -Peter Farris, author of The Devil Inside & Last Call for the Living
Read Nevada McPherson's Review. for A Trunk Full of Zeroes.
More coming in 2024!
