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Laughing At The Death Grin review

Pulp Metal Magazine's Laughing At The Death Grin is a delicious compilation of some of today's most talented crime/thriller writers. In this ebook collection of 13 noir and horror short stories, we meet a medley of unsavory characters that partake in some dark and dastardly deeds, leaving you feeling satiated and yet strangely wanting more...

The Argument Bunny by Ian Ayris is a quirky and heart wrenching tale about a desperate man's break with reality.

Melanie Brown takes you on a curious ri...

Coming December 2011

Interview With Darren Sant

Trestle Press author, Darren Sant, stopped by today to share with us all the cool stuff he's got going on. And it's a lot...



You've got a number of ebooks out now with Trestle Press. Tell the nice people what your series, Tales From The Longcroft Estate, is all about.

They are stories set in a fiction housing estate. They are stories of people who are going through dark times. Tales of loan sharks, drug addicts, gangsters and of everyday people struggling to make ends meet and the challenges t...

Liverpool 5's Luca Veste

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Luca Veste's debut collection of short stories on ebook called, Liverpool 5, is on fire at Amazon, gaining huge attention. Luca dropped by today for a quickie interview:

Your new short story ebook collection Liverpool 5 was just published by Trestle Press and is recieving a lot of attention. How does that feel?

Unbelievable. The whole process has been something of a whirlwind to be honest. In the space of a few days I'd hit Number Four in the short story charts, which was an incredible feeling....

The Bastard Hand by Heath Lowrance

After Charlie Wesley gives the psych hospital the slip, he decides to head down to Florida to start his life over. Charlie is a curious character. His brother is dead but he talks to him inside his head, and he's got this bizarre notion that his hands are glowing bright yellow. He also has a unique ability to heal himself—knife wounds, bullets, and severe beatings, hardly slow him down. After he meets another equally odd character named Reverend Childe, a charismatic but sketchy Baptist minis...

The Authors Of Trestle Press

Trestle Press is a young publishing company, in business less than a year, and already they're pumping out a litany of books and short stories series at break-neck speed. In addition to full length novels, and novellas, Trestle Press is focusing on short story series by a variety of new and renowned authors. There's so many in fact that I can hardly keep up, new ones are coming out daily it seems. It's like a zombie invasion only in digital book format!

Because it would take me the entire week...

Death Plays Poker by Robin Spano

Death Plays Poker: A Clare Vengel Undercover Novel
By Robin Spano
ECW Press (October 1, 2011)

In Canadian author Robin Spano's second novel, Death Plays Poker, rookie Toronto cop Clare Vengel is on an undercover assignment as a professional poker player to try and crack a series of murders. Someone is strangling world class poker players in their hotel rooms and it's Clare's job to infiltrate the group and find the killer. Spano has put together an amusing, well-drawn cast of suspicious characte...

Savage Rage By Brent Pilkey

Savage Rage
By Brent Pilkey
ECW Press (October 1, 2011)

Savage Rage is Brent Pilkey's second book based on the character Jack Warren, a tough Toronto cop with an attitude, working the mean streets of 51 Division. Pilkey himself a veteran Toronto officer has lived these same streets, and brings his 22 years of experience to the pages of this intense new series. I read Pilkey's debut novel, Lethal Rage, and really enjoyed the Toronto setting. There was actually some controversy within the police d...

Q & A With Dani Amore

Tell us about DEAD WOOD…

Dead Wood is a story about a violent murder in Grosse Pointe – the exclusively wealthy community that sits right on the border of Detroit. It's also about a man who made a horrible, horrible mistake and is now seeking both the truth and redemption. Along the way, he crosses paths with an ex-con on a violent rampage, an enigmatic music star doing damage control, and a mysterious hired killer with links to his own, unfortunate past.


So this is not a follow up to DEATH B...

Pulp Ink Review

Purged from the dark and twisted minds of some of the most talented crime writers today, Pulp Ink is an intense and dirty fusion of nefarious short stories and smack you right in the kisser flash fiction. Rising up like a carousing prize fighter in a dark alley, these stories will clobber you with an elbow smash to the noggin when you least expect it.

Sometimes you never know where you'll end up falling in love. It could be tied to a chair in a cellar with a woman who's got a gun to your head...