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The Fluffy Unicorns Drive-by: Peter M. Ball
Peter M. Ball is a Clarion South survivor (i.e. member of the Borg Collective) from 2007. He is the writer responsible for Horn, the novella that ruined fluffy white unicorns for everybody (thankfully!). Its follow-up, Bleed, follows the further misadventures of Miriam Aster as she tries, generally very unsuccessfully, to
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You can't go past CatBlogs!
Writer Peter M. Ball, author of the notorious Horn and my write-club collaborator, is house-sitting … and cat-sitting … cat-blogging in order to cope. It’s worth a re-post:
Part the first
The Cat: Feed Me!
Peter: There’s food in your bowl.
The Cat:
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Insert fanfare here
Ze cover for Peter M Ball’s new novella, Bleed – the novella-formerly-known-as-Cold Cases. Or ?. This is the follow-up to the awesome Horn.
For ten years ex-cop Miriam Aster has been living with her one big mistake – agreeing to kill three men for the exiled Queen of Faerie. But when
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Casting of the Pod
Twelfth Planet Press haz podcasts:
Episode 1 – “One Saturday Night With Angel” by Peter M Ball from Sprawl, read by Nick Evans
Episode 2 – “Language Lessons” by Patti Kurtz from Shiny Issue 6, read by Tehani Wessely
Episode 3 – “Yowie” by Thoraiya Dyer from Sprawl, read by Tansy Rayner Roberts
You can subscribe here http://girliejones.livejournal.com/1587122.html
Honorable Mentions
Huzzah! Queen of the Darkness, Ellen Datlow, has released her Best Horror of the Year, volume two, Honorable Mentions,
Sister, Sister got a mention (Strange Tales III from the glorious Tartarus Press). Peter M Ball’s Horn did too. And Jason Fischer got 3 – count ’em, three! Woooooot!
Other notables include Margo Lanagan, Tansy Rayner Roberts, RB Russell (co-ed of Tartarus Press),
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Locus Recomended Reading List
Lives here http://www.locusmag.com/Magazine/2010/Issue02_RecommendedReadingList.html
Some awesome names there (like LL Hannett, Peter M Ball, etc) 🙂
Horn, Siren Beat, BoE and Hugos
Until March 13, Twelfth Planet Press is offering free electronic copies of Horn by Peter M Ball and “Siren Beat” by Tansy Rayner Roberts and short stories from Deborah Biancotti’s A Book of Endings to help you catch up on your Australian specfic reading.
AAs!
A fabulous night had by all! List of winners here http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm
Congrats to all :-). Special huzzah to Peter M Ball for ‘Clockwork, Patchwork and Ravens’ in Apex Magazine May 2009. There was Snoppy Dancing. 🙂
Aurealis Awards
Tonight is Aurealis Awards night here in Brisneyland, the last one run by Fantastic Queensland, possibly the last one ever if no one takes up the franchise for next year. It’s been an amazing four years of FQ running the AAs very professionally.
Great list of nominees http://www.aurealisawards.com/finalists_winners.htm – special mention to Twelfth Planet Press, the little-indie-that-could, with its many nominations, and
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Peter M Ball talks Write-Club
Always interesting to get another perspective on Write-Club – http://www.petermball.com/2009/12/11/awesome-things-about-2009-615-write-club/