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Crime writer Holly West interviewed me over at Do Some Damage.
http://www.dosomedamage.com/2015/12/j...

Young Americans
The wonderful folks at Criminal Element have an excerpt from Young Americans up. Just wee bit dram to het you whistle.
http://www.criminalelement.com/storie...

I am stunned and humbled to find All The Wild Children: A noir memoir nominated for an Anthony Award along side so many of my favorite writers. Congrats to all. Thanks to Tad Williams for the brilliant introduction, and to Snubnose Press for publishing me.
http://www.stopyourekillingme.com/Awa...

I feel like a barker outside of the Condor strip club. "Come and get 'em, LAST DAY all three McGuire books as .99." http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_...

All three Moses McGuire novels are on sale for .99 for two more days. Grab a big handful of hardboilded goodness. http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UT...

Skip on over tho SONS OF SPADE for a quick Q&A, leave a message if you feel so inclined. http://sonsofspade.blogspot.de/2013/1...

New review for One More Body-"Flabbergasted. Sated. Speechless. Once again, I am in awe of the tale spun by the Josh Stallings."
http://quirkygurl.com/2013/11/08/quic...

"One More Body reads like a west coast based, punk rock fueled take on Andrew Vachss' Burke series of novels. The thrilling action and powerful moments of character drama that fans of the McGuire series have come to expect are in abundance in this novel, which is even better than the previous two entries in the series." - Dave Richards (criminalelement.com)
http://www.criminalelement.com/blogs/...

**** "Like Ellroy’s MY DARK PLACES, Stallings writes a brutal truth that’s honesty is as uplifting as it is heartbreaking."

http://justaguythatlikes2read.blogspo...

Mystery People/Book People
603 N. Lamar, Austin TX 78703
Open daily, 9am to 11pm
(512) 472-5050
Are carrying all of my books. May is SNUBNOSE PRESS month. If you are in Austin, check them out.

http://mysterypeople.wordpress.com/20...

"The strike of your fist on your face carries a weight like no other. Believe me. Or check it out. Just don't pull the punch." The Blow Jobs - a new story over at BEAT TO A PULP
http://www.beattoapulp.com/stor/2013/...

Hi Josh- Thanks for being my goodreads friend. Please consider reading/rating my new memoir The Astor Orphan. Thanks, Alexandra

We are having a book release party/reading for All The Wild Children: A noir memoir
Saturday, April 27, 201 from 2:00pm until 5:00pm
[Where]
Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103

Love to have you join us.

All The Wild Children: A noir memoir Book PARTY! Saturday, April 27, 2013 2:00pm until 5:00pm - Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103

Josh Stallings will be reading and signing. All others will be drinking and noshing and chatting and generally paying the author no mind --- Books will be available for sale.

https://www.facebook.com/events/35222...

"Stallings brings to the table a writing style that makes this personal account read like fiction. The mixture of straightforward prose with philosophical views on things like affection, fatherhood, responsibility, and politics turn All the Wild Things into a survival manual for those born and raised in the midst of chaos." - Gabino Iglesias


http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2...

OUT OF THE GUTTER HAS SPOKEN - "Raw, brutally honest, very entertaining, and wonderfully heartfelt." - Gabino Iglesias

Book launch Party - All The Wild Children (a noir memoir)
Wine beer and a reading? What more could you ask?
-- Saturday, April 27, 2013 --- 2:00pm until 5:00pm

Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church 301 N. Orange Grove Blvd., Pasadena, CA 91103

http://www.facebook.com/events/352228...

"Read this book if you need solace; if you love humanity; if you’re curious about the Sixties; if you want support; if you're broken and need help and inspiration; need to give up one of your crutches; or if you love fantastic stories." Nigel Bird





http://nigelpbird.blogspot.co.uk/2013...

All The Wild Children: A noir memoir
"This is not a crime story. Yes there are crimes in it but it’s not noir. Some of you will be misled by the phrase “A Noir Memoir”. This is a story of hope, love, family, and loyalty." Dave Wahlman - CRIMESPREE MAGAZINE

Ian Ayres gave All The Wild Children: A noir memoir a wonderful review- "Having read the first two thirds of the book with my jaw hanging open, I read this last third on the edge of tears... This book is about courage. It is about unbreakable bonds and the immutability of love." - I.A.

http://www.ianayris.com/2013/03/all-w...

Tad Williams and I spent our wild years in Nor Cal. From the late 1950’s to the early 2000’s a lot of things happened, to us all. I’m claiming, planting my tattered flag on my corner of it.
I have piece up over at Loitering With Intent.

http://loiteringwithintent.wordpress....

PENGUINS AND VOMIT (or how to write a memoir sure to piss off your mom, and your kids.)

New blog piece....

http://www.elizabethawhite.com/2013/0...

All The Wild Children: A noir memoir

"Today I went to the Glendale jail and spoke to my son through a phone and video screen. He's down for possession. Says it wasn't his. I let the lie slide between us."

New essay http://spaceythompson.blogspot.com/20...

Introduction by Tad Williams Praised by Ken Bruen and Charlie Huston

New essay about crime and redemption from father to son by
Josh Stallings

http://spaceythompson.blogspot.com/20...

All The Wild Children: A noir memoir coming Friday. I discuss it at Paul Brazzil's joint. http://pauldbrazill.wordpress.com/201...

All The Wild Children: A noir memoir

"Outside of Mazatlan we hit the toad crossing. It’s night. I’m rolling with a bunch feverish moaning diarrhea streaked junkies. I am related to most of them. I am 13. I am smoking like a chimney to keep the smell at bay. Dry lightning spiderwebs the sky. Then I see them. The road is covered with toads stretching out a hundred feet or more. The car slides as if on ice. Swerving back and forth, hydroplaning on toad soup. A minute later we’re back on dry asphalt, rolling on as if it never happened. Sometimes life is stranger than drugs." - All The Wild Children COMING 03.15.13

All The Wild Children a noir memoir releasing March 15th. Introduction by NY Times best selling author Tad Williams.

From the author of the critically acclaimed Moses McGuire crime series comes a brutally honest memoir. Raised in the 60's counter-culture, a teen in the 70's, and a father in the go go 80's. White boy in a ghetto high school. Guns. Drugs. Sex. Fatherhood. Heart warming, uplifting and tough. A life writ large.

The countdown begins. On March 15th Snubnose Press will be publishing "All The Wild Children" My Memoir. Drugs, guns, love, betrayal, getto glitter rockers and so much more. It's a noir memoir.

Hi Josh. Thanks so much for Friending me, and Happy New Year to you. Hope the writing's going well :)

OUT OF THE GUTTER just reviewed Out There Bad - "Buckle up boys and girls, it's a town full of losers and Moses McGuire is pulling out for the win."- great stuff, check it out.
http://www.outofthegutteronline.com/2...

Ok my friends Protectors: Stories to Benefit PROTECT is out! 41 amazing writers - Vachss, Lansdale, Stella , Pelecanos, Bruen a bunch of other very tallented writers and even this Stallings guy! Grab it while its hot.

http://www.amazon.com/Protectors-Stor...

"Man, Josh Stallings can write... a combination of Chandleresque asides and observations, spare but vivid scene-setting and a keen eye for nailing his characters dead-on" -Martin Stanley Beautiful, Naked & Dead
http://thegamblersnovel.com/2012/08/1...

Beautiful, Naked & Dead is fast paced, well honed and purrs like a V-8 with the hammer down. There are no punches pulled here, only some damn fine writing. - Great new review over at Nevada Roadkill

http://nevadaroadkill.blogspot.co.uk/...

Last day to get the critically acclaimed mystery novel - BEAUTIFUL, NAKED & DEAD, on Kindle for free.



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

Beautiful, Naked & Dead is FREE on KINDLE for the next few days... Grab a great mystery book, and enjoy.

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

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...