January 2012
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"The Knife Block" at ManArchy Magazine →
ManArchy Magazine has published my story The Knife Block in the exciting and highly anticipated debut issue. Read here. Like the magazine here.
I also recommend: Misty by Richard Thomas, 50 Ways to Leave Your Lover (Well, 5) by Amanda Gowin, Dispatch From a Lot Lizard: Car Buying 101 by Bob Pastorella, and the Total DANarchy column by Dan Donche.
Happy New Year
Welcome to the new website.
—PV
December 2011
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November 2011
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In Search of a City: Los Angeles in 1,000 Words →
My story ‘Bathhouse’ is included in the new anthology by ThunderDome.
Inspired by photographs taken around the Los Angeles area by Michael Paul Gonzalez, the book features short stories from 26 authors—each asked to select a photograph and write a story of precisely 1,000 words inspired by what they saw.
The result is quintessential LA. I’m thrilled to be part of it.
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October 2011
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August 2011
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Dispatches from Thunder Road: Pela Via by Mlaz... →
In the wake of the Warmed and Bound release, the generous and elusive Mlaz Corbier interviewed a few very lucky people for Thunderdome, mine found here.
July 2011
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Interview on Booked Podcast →
Literary podcast duo Livius Nedin and Robb Olson tackled a plethora of Warmed and Bound contributors in their series The Warmed and Bound Sessions. My interview is available for download and streaming here. *Includes the original song by Mr Via, ‘Sandwich Girl’
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Warmed and Bound: On Sale Now →
Warmed and Bound: A Velvet Anthology Edited by Pela Via, Foreword by Steve Erickson
Velvet Press 2011, Available now in Paperback (408 pages), Kindle and Epub
“The writers of the Velvet are contemporary fiction’s most effective and least self-conscious aesthetic guerrillas … The result is fiction at once conceived from high artistic intent and executed with depraved populist...
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A (Second) Conversation With Caleb J. Ross and...
Stranger Will Tour Stop #44
What follows is a conversation between myself and author Caleb J. Ross. Why? Because Caleb is a comic genius who likes to engage in serious in-depth discussions about writing; I have a stupid sense of humor and will do what’s necessary to keep a funny person nearby.
Pela Via: Thanks for talking to me again, Caleb. You are one of the hardest workers in...
April 2011
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"Pela's" by Mlaz Corbier
At Trouser Man’s back alley nothing but poison enters your lungs; there’s only one place in the whole of Cursan Town where it’s harder to breathe, and it isn’t at the fishes markets either. It’s at Pela’s, a peculiar shop for all your most magical needs.
Legend tells the witch who owns the place lived for more than a hundred years though it looks as if she’s in her salad days still. Her lips...
October 2010
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How to Befriend a Writer by Pela Via →
Dialog With Richard Thomas, in the October 2010 issue of Word Riot.
September 2010
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Velvet Podcast: Don’t Pull My Hair Unless You Mean... →
Writers Richard Thomas (Transubstantiate), Nik Korpon (Stay God), Pela Via and Nic Young grind out the topic of sex and violence in fiction and their complex relationship to sadistic bedfellows, love and shock.
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Writers' Banquet Interview →
The infamous Craig Wallwork interviews me as part of his new series, Writers’ Banquet.
Craig Wallwork is a brilliant and kind-hearted writer from West Yorkshire, England. His writing is unlike anything else out there—it leaves me laughing (blushing) for days. Never fails to satisfy. In 2012 he will release a collection of short stories, Quintessence of Dust (KUBOA), and a novel, To Die...
July 2010
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Nominated for Best of the Net →
My story “Burning Hot Girls” was nominated for the Best of the Net Anthology (Sundress Publications)
“I am a female; there’s always a chance I’m not special.”
» read “Burning Hot Girls” at Red Fez
December 2009
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A Conversation with Caleb J Ross and Pela Via
Blog Orgy Tour stop #1: A “Conversatinterview”
I’ve opened my blog to Caleb during his Blog Orgy Tour because his book is great. He writes like it’s easy and I want more of his work in print. He and I had a wonderful conversation (during most of which I was perfectly sober) and he wrote a Pela Via-esque flash story that I’m crazy about. Enjoy…
Guest post from CJR:
This post is...
November 2009
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"The Letter from Jack" at Nefarious Muse →
“Watching you sleep settles something inside me. But it was over too quickly. Sunday morning was a crash in my brain. No one could love you as much as I do.”
» read “The Letter from Jack” at Nefarious Muse