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April 13th 20121 note
Warmed and Bound: Best of 2011 noms
Spinetingler nomination for Best Anthology. Voting is here. (Closes end of April, Winner announced May 1)
*This one’s especially exciting—Spinetingler is always hot on the trail of the next great thing in Noir.Goodreads nomination for Best Cover Art. Voting is here. (Add to your GR library or review the book here)
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Waiting to be said…
Closing in on the first anniversary, I want to thank everyone who’s said, written, or thought nice things about Warmed and Bound.
We all love our own babies and it’s often weird and unpleasant to endure excessive doting on the neighbors’—let alone add to it. To other writers especially, please know that we never took the flurry of attention for granted. We didn’t believe our baby was china doll and genius; we were surprised as anyone when it was treated as a darling of neo-noir. Newborns and new releases are little alien things that survive by the enthusiasm of others. W&B probably benefited as much from the enthusiasm of unselfish peers and readers as the effort needed to create it.
Here’s to creators encouraging creators. And to as many warm caresses for the frog-faced babies as the Blue Ivies. Keep on.
—PV
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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.
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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.
(available through ThunderDome and Amazon)
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The Warmed and Bound 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 energy.” —Steve Erickson, author of ZEROVILLE
With stories by Matt Bell, Tim Beverstock, Blake Butler, Vincent Louis Carrella, Craig Clevenger, Craig Davidson, Chris Deal, DeLeon DeMicoli, Christopher J Dwyer, Brian Evenson, Sean P Ferguson, Amanda Gowin, JR Harlan, Gordon Highland, Anthony David Jacques, Mark Jaskowski, Jeremy Robert Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Nik Korpon, Gary Paul Libero, Kyle Minor, Doc O’Donnell, J David Osborne, Rob Parker, Bob Pastorella, Gavin Pate, Cameron Pierce, Edward J Rathke, Caleb J Ross, Bradley Sands, Axel Taiari, Richard Thomas, Brandon Tietz, Gayle Towell, Paul Tremblay, Pela Via, Craig Wallwork, and Nic YoungFrom the heart of The Velvet—a writing community built around the fervent love of neo-noir fiction—comes an original anthology. Stacked with brilliant emerging writers alongside some of the strongest established voices in contemporary literature, WARMED AND BOUND crosses literary boundaries on all sides, to deliver an altogether unique reading experience.
Through seemingly opposed conventions, beautiful prose makes a hard impression on the short story form. From a scary love story to a nostalgic thriller, a hardboiled pursuit of salvation to the black humor that is existentialism, WARMED AND BOUND is rogue humility and lovesick noir, where humanity is a dirty puzzle.
It’s Velvet Noir. Welcome.
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How to Befriend a Writer by Pela Via
Dialog With Richard Thomas, in the October 2010 issue of Word Riot.
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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
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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
