Beautiful, Naked & Dead - 25 - 5 Star reviews (Amazon) 47 - 5 Star reviews (Goodreads) 13 best of 2011 lists. "Brutally honest" "Moses McGuire is one of the most compelling noir anti-heroes I've read in some time." "Gritty, intense and fast paced." "brutal and it is magnificent."

Have you read it?


Beautiful, Naked & Dead


http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

“Damn girl, that pinches. What are those, real cuffs?”

“Sorry baby.” She leaned down, kissing his wrist and giving him a look down her top at her breasts.

“Mmmm, they little, bitty things, but I still love to suck on those dark cherries. I hear the darker the berry …” That was the last thing he ever said. The blast from the twelve-gauge...

BLOOD AND TACOS #2 is out.

http://www.bloodandtacos.com/sunshine...

I have a story in the pulp masterpiece of a magazeen; BLOOD & TACOS - My story is, Sunshine: Stripper Assassin in THE G-STRING GUNDOWN. Hope you like it.

http://www.bloodandtacos.com/sunshine...

Snubnose Press Sampler: The openings of upcoming releases
May 23, 2012 - Including my upcoming memoir - All the Wild Children by Josh Stallings

http://snubnosepress.wordpress.com/20...

"Beautiful, Naked & Dead is written with raw power and authenticity and Moses McGuire is one of the most compelling noir anti-heroes I've read in some time. If it's true that authors get better the more they write, then we have a lot to look forward to from Josh Stallings."

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

Ok, I am both stunned and please by Ian Ayris's review of Beautiful Naked & Dead. To have a fine writer get what you do and dig it is about as good as it gets.

"If the days of our lives moved along on wheels of justice, Moses McGuire would be the leader of the free world, and Josh Stallings would be its poet laureate.

BEAUTIFUL, NAKED & DEAD is brutal and it is magnificent.

And you need to read it.

NOW." - Ian Ayris

http://www.ianayris.com/2012/05/beaut...

I have an essay in the current CRIME FACTORY, it may well be the best I know how to write. Give it a read, let me know what you think.

Josh

http://www.thecrimefactory.com/2012/0...

If you love a ragged titty bar bouncer and a book about him, BEAUTIFUL NAKED & DEAD head over to Spinetingler Magazeen and vote . http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2012/0...

OMFG! Beautiful, Naked & Dead was nominated for a SPINETINGLER award! 2012 Spinetingler Award: Best Novel – New Voice - WOW. I am proud to bursting.

http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2012/0...

Beautiful, Naked & Dead - "This book was like when you are expecting a nice kiss from your grandma but instead she grabs the back of your head with both hands and head butts you! ... If you like your stories Intelligent and bloody than you are doing yourself a disservice by not picking this up." - Michael @ Goodreads

http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Fantasic news, Snobnose Press will be publishing my memoir All The Wild Children - publication is still a few drafts off, but damn I'm proud to join the Snubnose Press crew.

http://snubnosepress.wordpress.com/20...

The romantic side of Moses McGuire and a cupcake, you really cant go wrong.

http://myfriendscallmekate.blogspot.com/

Best Noir of the 21st Century
Hardboiled, crime and noir stories. - Cool list of great writers! Give it a look see.

http://www.goodreads.com/list/show/17...

Beautiful, Naked & Dead "one of the best books I've read in quite a while... This is a great book, beautifully written by an author that brought a lot of heart to the keyboard." - Pearce Hansen

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

"Two novels you should get immediately are THE BASTARD HAND by Heath Lowrance and BEAUTIFUL, NAKED & DEAD by Josh Stallings. These two get talked about a lot and for good reason. One is noir as hell, the other hard-boiled as a bastard." - Charlie Williams

Beautiful, Naked & Dead "Comparisons to Chandler, for once, are apt. There's a secret world of crushed idealism just beneath the surface and a jagged, rough-edged poetry here that Ray would have understood." - The Thrilling Detective

http://www.thrillingdetective.com/mor...

Beautiful, Naked & Dead- "There's lots of guns, blood and bone-crunching badness" Fiona Johnson ""Exceptionally well -written, high –octane , debut novel" Paul D Brazill "I didn't call Moses hubba-hubba superlicious in a previous post for no reason, ladies." Sabrina E. Ogden

On 8 best of 2011 list. "Book of the year."-Eva Dolan

Thank you all!!!! Now its FREE for one more day!!!!!

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

Eva Dolan of Loitering With Intent calls Beautiful, Naked & Dead - "tough, rambunctious bastard of a book... Book of the year."

on 8 - best of 2011 list. Critics and readers alike agree it is a must read. For the next two days it is FREE, yes, FREE. Happy Holidays and thank you all for all you have done top support Moses world.

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

Beautiful, Naked & Dead is on 8 - best of 2011 list. Critics and readers alike agree it is a must read. For the next two days it is FREE, yes, FREE. Happy Holidays and thank you all for all you have done top support Moses world.

Eva Dolan of Loitering With Intent calls Beautiful, Naked & Dead - "tough, rambunctious bastard of a book... Book of the year." Wow!

Julie Morrigan's Top 5 books of 2011 - Beautiful, Naked & Dead !!!!!

Guilty Conscience - AJ Hayes' Top 5 books of 2011
Beautiful, Naked & Dead "amazing first novel."

http://www.lucaveste.com/2011/12/aj-h...

In Pluck's Top 10 books of 2011,
Out There Bad. "L.A. has a new crime boss, it just doesn't know it yet: and his name is Stallings."

http://www.pluckyoutoo.com/2011/12/gr...

Johnny Shaw rated Beautiful, Naked & Dead 5 of 5 stars "This is one of the best books that I've read this year. No question. If there are any publishers out there reading this, you should put that coke back in the drawer and call Josh Stallings. Trust me, you want to be in the Josh Stallings business. This guy has crazy skills..."

Beautiful, Naked & Dead --- "This story races along, no time to catch a breath, no time to take stock. Dirty and humourous, with deftly-handled darkness and very, very violent... Josh Stallings is a hell of a writer, and Moses is a hell of a protagonist. " - Christopher Black (Amazon UK)

Yo UK readers. £0.86 !!!

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Beautiful-Nak...

Out There Bad for less than a dollar. cheaper than a shot of McCallans and twice as smooth.

http://www.amazon.com/Out-There-Moses...

"Stallings is the real deal.He started off hot with Beautiful, Naked & Dead, has downshifted into blazing in Out There Bad" - Elizabeth A. White

CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED Beautiful, Naked & Dead and Out There Bad NOW .99 (Kindle and B&N Nook)

http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

http://www.amazon.com/Out-There-Moses...

Out There Bad has 12 5star reviews at AMAZON - "An impossible book to put down." and 19 5star reviews at GoodReads. "Full tilt boogie that slams your head back and squishes your brain against the back of your skull and puts you in that place with your spine against the bricks of a dead end alley and a set of headlights coming at you at one hundrded and forty MPH and there ain't no way you can see you're ever gonna get out of this alive, but you just plain don't care if you do or not, because this is here and this is now and fuck all the rest." - AJ HAYES ...

http://www.amazon.com/Out-There-Moses...

18 5star reviews at AMAZON for Beautiful, Naked & Dead. "I hope Stallings has a lot more books inside him."...... 30 5star reviews at GoodReads "I took my time with this one because I didn't want to finish it. Brutal and beautiful all at the same time." - Nick
http://www.amazon.com/Beautiful-Naked...

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NEW REVIEW OF Out There Bad"Praise the Lord (or Satan, maybe), only six months after the publication of the very solid Beautiful, Naked & Dead , there was already another Moses McGuire novel out... it's paced like a shotgun blast... A fun barnburner of a novel." -Benoit Lelievre - Dead End Follies

READ REVIEW HERE - http://networkedblogs.com/oMKOJ

Praise for OUT THERE BAD "Don't have words to describe Mr Stallings style, 'effortless' may come close, just know that this fine novel really hit the nail on the head for me. Other reviewers have compared Josh to James Crumley or Joe Lansdale & I second those comparisons (maybe a bit of John D MacDonalds' Travis McGee, too ?) but he also has something of his own to offer as well. Plot, characters, action, honesty & integrity - all ticked the right boxes & any book that has you singing Coma Girl by Strummer & the Mescelaros as it downloads has to be a winner in my book. Quality " - Gareth Price

Palo Alto Guns - a flash of memoir from the '70, the disco years, the MY-O-MY years, the rolling hard years, the years we were lucky to survive. http://www.shotgunhoney.net/2011/10/g...

Ok MUST READ, I'm chatting at the Slaughterhouse SEX, NOIR, LIFE, GOD - we covered some wild terrain.

http://www.richardgodwin.net/intervie....

Brian Lindenmuth 's review of Beatiful Naked & Dead is up over Spinetingler mag http://www.spinetinglermag.com/2011/1...

"...what rises Beautiful, Naked & Dead above the fray is the strength of the narrative voice. McGuire’s voice, as written by Stallings, is infectious, tough, vulnerable and likable. It pulls the reader along until the end like the greatest bar story ever told." - Brian Lindenmuth

A brand new MOSES short story is posted at http://myfriendscallmekate.blogspot.c... Give it a read and let me know what you think.

"indie writer JOSH STALLINGS puts together one of the most refreshing interviews you'll ever see." Nigel Bird

http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Wonderful interview with Scottish writer Fiona Johnson http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/2011/0...

Guns, strippers, sex-trafficking, vengeance, Russian mobsters, Mexican hit men, a straight razor, Moses McGuire and Gregor, all rolling straight to hell in a V8 supercharged road beast. Oh My! ---- Must read - Josh Stallings interview: Out There Bad over at Allan Gutherie's Criminal-E - http://criminal-e.blogspot.com​/2011/...

Out There Bad

Out There Bad _ "This is one of the most deranged and depraved noirs I've ever read...and that's a good thing! For fans of Ellroy, BREAKING BAD and old-school noir, this book is a must-read.
Hats off to Josh Stallings-one sick dude!" - DP

http://www.amazon.com/Out-There-Moses...

Josh wrote: "The ever wonderful Nigel Bird has reviewed Out There Bad over at Sea Minor - I'm proud as can be. "Don’t read this if you like sedate stories, hate violence or want to get yourself an early night." http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/2011/0...

The ever wonderful Nigel Bird has reviewed Out There Badover at Sea Minor - I'm proud as can be. "Don’t read this if you like sedate stories, hate violence or want to get yourself an early night." http://nigelpbird.blogspot.com/

Sunday, July 17 · 8:00pm - 11:00pm--------------
Noir at the Bar comes to Los Angeles. Come hang out with L.A.'s best crime writers and our featured guest - Duane Swierczynski in his only L.A. appearance!
With readings by:
Josh Stallings (Beautiful, Naked & Dead / Out There Bad)
Holly O'Neill West (Diary of Bedlam)
Stephen Blackmoore (City of the Lost)
and Eric Beetner (One Too Many Blows To The Head / Borrowed Trouble)

http://la-noir.blogspot.com/2011/06/n...

"Josh Stallings might be one of the most talented newcomers in the literary landscape this year." - Writer & Pop Culture Critic Benoit Lelievre

A stellar review for Beautiful, Naked & Dead - thoughtful and literate - must read

http://www.deadendfollies.com/2011/07...

Amazon has lowered the price of OUT THERE BAD by $3.64 Paperback is now $9.35... Don't know how long it will last. So Now is the time to grab it. http://www.amazon.com/Out-There-Bad-M...

Thomas Pluck rated it 5 of 5 stars
More from the king of bad-ass. I enjoyed Stallings' first novel, Beautiful, Naked & Dead but the sequel tops it in every way. Moses McGuire is in more trouble, has more firepower, more friends, and a lot more on the line. Stallings always takes us places no one would walk alone, but this time he goes further and shows us the naked truth of strip club life. Ex-con Marine Mo McGuire drags us kicking and screaming to the dark side and pays back the scum who've hurt his friends. This is one you won't be putting down until it's done.

You must, no really MUST read this review of Out There Bad by Elizabeth A. White http://bit.ly/mEuqLl Smart and insightfu. READ IT.

Dave White: posted to Amazon Kindle
Okay, folks, what's the best book you've ever read on your Kindle?

Elizabeth A. White: Probably would have said Beautiful, Naked & Dead by Josh Stallings, except I just finished the follow up, Out There Bad which has dethroned it.

"Out There Bad is another blood soaked, hard hitting mix of James Crumley and Joe Strummer and is highly recommended." - Paul D Brazill

(Crumley and Strummer two my heroes, not bad.)

http://pdbrazill.blogspot.com/2011/06...

McDroll said...

If you love Beautiful, Naked & Dead just wait until try Out There Bad....it's the hottest chili around!