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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Tag Archives: peter m ball
Joining the Twitterverse
In a decision I may live to regret, I have joined the League of World-wide Twits.
Peter M. Ball predicts it will set off some kind of Doom Apocalypse – or at least a chorus from Mental as Anything’s Apocalypso – I cannot say with certaintly that he is wrong.
Follow me, if ye dare: @AngelaSlatter
Ps: the other half of the Brain
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Tagged angela slatter, Lisa L Hannett, peter m ball, twitter
A Very Good Cause
Over at my mate Peter M. Ball’s site, he’s posted about his sister Sally.
Sally is walking to raise funds for Parkinsons Queensland.
As Pete points out: Parkinsons sucks. Both our families have been struck by it.
So, if you’ve got a few spare shekels, please go
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The Graveyard Dalek
With great power comes great responsibility.
On Thursday, Peter M Ball and I reconvened for our first write-club in almost 6 weeks. During the initial hour – which is when we eat pancakes and bacon and talk ‘shop’ – we decided that the very talented
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Swancon – Part Deux (or Stop Nagging Me, McDermott)
Part Two
On Friday morning we finally made it to the con proper (as opposed to simply being located in the same city and a bit around the block from it), we schlepped to the Hyatt and registered. There’s always a lovely sensation when you walk into a con hotel and see faces you don’t usually see except for a few
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Tagged Alisa Krasnostein, dirk flinthart, Ditmars and the Tin Ducks, ellen datlow, Helen Merrick, jason nahrung, Justin Ackroyd, justina robson, kaaron warren, kate eltham, Kirstyn McDermott, Paul Haines, peter m ball, richard harland, robert hoge, Robert Hood, sean williams, Stephen Dedman, swancon 2011, Tansy Rayner Roberts’ Love and Romanpunk, TPP’s Twelve Planets
Ditmars!
The shortlists for this year’s Ditmars have been announced and it’s great to see names like Peter M. Ball, Cat Sparks, Felicity Dowker, Kirstyn McDermott, Jason Fischer et al.
And awesomest of all: three nom-nom-noms for Lisa L. Hannett!!!
Full list is here on the Swancon36
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In which there is Shadowy Snoopy Dancing
The short list for the 2010 Australian Shadows Award has been released and it’s awesome to see names of some very talented friends there, including Peter M. Ball, Kirstyn McDermott, Liz Gryzb and Felicity Dowker.
I was lucky enough to get two mentions, one in Long Fiction for The Girl with No Hands and Other Stories (Ticonderoga Publications) and one in
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Locus Online Recommended Reading List
Wooot! Lots of Aussies on the list, including Cat Sparks, Peter M. Ball, Elizabeth Carroll, Margo Lanagan and editor Alisa Krasnostein.
Also, I got two mentions: one for ‘Brisneyland by Night’ in TPP’s Sprawl and t’other for ‘Lost Things’ in Sourdough and Other Stories.
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Ebooky Goodness: After the Rain special edition
The lovely Tehani at FableCroft is issuing a special ebook edition of the After the Rain Anthology as a fundraiser for the Qld Floods Appeal. There are the original planned stories in the ToC and this volume is augmented by essays from authors currently living through the floods.
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Post-peak
Well, the river peaked last night, but not as high as feared. Huge chunks of Brisneyland are now distinctly soggy. We’re safe and dry here, but I haven’t been out for a walk yet to see how the streets around me are looking. Family are all well and dry and river seems to be receeding somewhat. Ipswich is now starting
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Goodness that Shimmers!
Always happy to post about Shimmer!
The stories are wondrous and the art is glorious.
Issue 12:
We released our first issue in 2005. We’ve gotten stronger with each issue, and Issue 12 contains wonders and marvels, from Peter M. Ball‘s punk-not-emo teenage werewolf story, to Read more…
Tagged josh storey, monica byrne, peter m ball, shimmer
