{"id":12,"date":"2014-05-30T04:31:28","date_gmt":"2014-05-30T04:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maxtalley.com\/?page_id=12"},"modified":"2026-03-11T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T19:58:55","slug":"where-to-buy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/maxtalley.com\/?page_id=12","title":{"rendered":"About & Where to Buy"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Talley’s stories & art are available in these editions from SB Lit Journal Books or at Amazon. Santa Barbara Lit Journal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

Max Talley was born in New York, and received a BA in literature from a liberal arts college. His father was an editor, and his mother was a businesswoman and writer, so he grew up surrounded by books.\u00a0Talley wrote weekly columns for the Carmel Valley Sun<\/em> in the late 1990\u2019s, as well as The Rogue Voice<\/em> of San Luis Obispo from 2007 to 2009. He won awards at Santa Barbara Writers Conference in 2006 and 2007 for fiction in the horror\/sci-fi\/fantasy category. His story \u201cPoisoned\u201d appeared in Iconoclast<\/em> magazine in 2007. Talley\u2019s dystopian near future thriller Yesterday We Forget Tomorrow<\/em> was published by Damnation Books in 2014. Talley’s curated anthology Delirium Corridor<\/em> debuted in December 2020, with two of his stories, his cover & interior artwork, and twelve other excellent writers. Talley’s literary fiction collection, My Secret Place<\/em>, came out from Main Street Rag Books in 2022 and When The Night Breathes Electric<\/em> debuted in 2023 from Noleta Press\/SBLJ Books. his 3rd collection, Destroy Me Gently, Please<\/em> was published by Serving House Books in spring 2025, followed by Peace, Love & Haight<\/em>. Look out for Santa Fe Psychosis<\/em>\u00a0in May 2026!<\/p>\n

Since 2014, Talley\u2019s stories have appeared in Two Cities Review, Iconoclast, Chantwood, The Opiate, Fiction Southeast, Hofstra University – Windmill, <\/em>two Hardboiled<\/em> anthologies, Del Sol Review<\/em>, Broke Bohemian, Thoughtful Dog, Bull & Cross, Black Dandy, Devolution Z, The Gateway Review<\/em>, & Gold Man Review. <\/em>Since 2018, he’s been in Abstract Magazine, Bridge Eight,<\/em> Gravel, Santa Barbara Literary Journal, Entropy, Litro, Santa Fe Lit Review, Inlandia, Digging Press, FILTH, Atticus Review, <\/em>Santa Fe Writers Project, Litbreak, The Dark City, Gargoyle, Underwood, Running Wild Press, Jokes Review, Pocket Fiction,<\/em> Bookends Review, Maudlin House, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, K’in, Dillydoun Review, Chariot Press, Abandon Journal, Whiskey Tit, About Place, Eckleburg, Iron Horse Lit Review, &<\/em>\u00a0The Saturday Evening Post<\/em>. He lives on the long lonely road between New Mexico & Southern California. Talley teaches a writing workshop at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference & sometimes at Santa Fe Workshops.<\/p>\n

Copies of Peace, Love & Haight<\/strong> are available on shelves of the following Independent (& one chain) bookstores:<\/p>\n

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  1. Chaucer’s Books in Santa Barbara<\/li>\n
  2. Mesa Bookstore in Santa Barbara<\/li>\n
  3. Tecolote Books in Montecito, CA<\/li>\n
  4. Gallery Bookshop in Mendocino, CA<\/li>\n
  5. City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco<\/li>\n
  6. The Booksmith on Haight St., San Francisco<\/li>\n
  7. Borderlands Books on Haight St. in San Francisco<\/li>\n
  8. Bookshop West Portal in San Francisco<\/li>\n
  9. Dog Eared Books in San Francisco<\/li>\n
  10. Green Apple Books in San Francisco<\/li>\n
  11. Sausalito Books by the Bay in Sausalito, CA<\/li>\n
  12. Bookshop Santa Cruz in Santa Cruz, CA<\/li>\n
  13. Copperfield’s in San Rafael, CA<\/li>\n
  14. Eureka Books in Eureka, CA<\/li>\n
  15. Powell’s Books in Portland, OR<\/li>\n
  16. Vroman’s Books in Pasadena, CA<\/li>\n
  17. Fireside Books & More in Redwood City, CA<\/li>\n
  18. Monarch Books in Arroyo Grande, CA<\/li>\n
  19. Barnes & Noble in Ventura, CA (& Thousand Oaks)<\/li>\n
  20. Three Lives & Company, Greenwich Village, NYC<\/li>\n
  21. San Marco Bookstore in Jacksonville, FL<\/li>\n
  22. Buffalo Street Books in Ithica, NY<\/li>\n
  23. Books-a-Million in Birmingham, AL, & in their many more stores in America!<\/li>\n
  24. Also available to order online at Bookshop, Barnes & Noble, Powell’s, City Lights, Strand, & Kepler’s!<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n
    Please leave an online review or let the store know what you think!<\/div>\n
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    \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u2022When The Night Breathes Electric<\/strong> is available at the following independent bookstores:<\/div>\n
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