Novels by John Pulver & JR Waterbear

Crime, comedy, and the long strange road, told by a writer who has spent time in diners with bikers and never forgot it.

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Grand Prize Winner, Writer's Digest Self-Published E-book Awards

Latest Novel

Hollywood Bodies

Grand Prize Winner of the 13th Annual Writer's Digest Self-Published E-book Awards, a win that came with $5,000 and a paid trip to the Writer's Digest Annual Conference. Read the full interview.

1987, Hollywood. Glenda Birdsong, onetime rock star brought low by drugs and bad dieting advice, is working on her comeback album. Then her sleazy manager steals her best song and winds up dead.

Suddenly, bodies are piling up, and all the evidence points to Glenda. She'll need all her wits and legendary stubbornness to survive and find the killer. Welcome to the jungle, Glenda.

"This story had me asking myself, What if Quentin Tarantino wrote a cozy mystery?"Review

Five books. Five worlds.

Crime / Dark Comedy

Hollywood Bodies

1987, Hollywood. A rock star's comeback turns into a murder investigation, and all the evidence points to her.

Literary Sci-Fi

Prima

On her 20th birthday, Prima discovers a shocking possibility about herself: she may be partially non-human primate.

Post-Apocalyptic

Killswitch

Framed for a massacre, an Outsider and a rebel flee across a computer-guided Earth to stop a hidden monster.

Comedy / Road Trip

Bill the Biker

Seven feet tall, seven teeth, and two thousand miles to claim a family legacy. Written as JR Waterbear.

Americana / Frontier History

Cow-Country Jargon

The 100-Year Anniversary Edition of a rare 1936 collection capturing authentic cowboy life and language.

About the Authors

John Pulver

John Pulver writes the kind of stories that start as a joke between friends and end up as something with real teeth. He also writes under the name JR Waterbear with Robert Jablon, a pen name with its own strange and true origin story.

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