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TPP-related Squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

TPP has announced the first of the new 2011 special series:

Twelve Planets

12 collections, 12 authors, 12 months

Twelfth Planet Press announces the first collection in the Twelve Planets series to be released in January, 2011.

Nightsiders
by Sue Isle

In a future world of extreme climate change, Western Australia’s capital city, Perth, has been abandoned. Most of the state’s citizens were evacuated
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Snippetry

I have seen the cover of LL Hannett’s Bluegrass Symphony from Ticonderoga Press and it is truly squeeeee-worthy.

I have finally seen the start of Peter M Ball’s work-in-progress Black Candy and I predict a Tiptree.

I read Tansy Rayner Roberts’s Siren Beat  from Twelfth Planet Press and am very excited about the forthcoming Nancy Napoleon novel.

I wrote another 3000 words on the
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Sprawl

Alexandra Pierce reviews Sprawl from Twelfth Planet Press over at ASif.

She says kind things about ‘Brisneyland by Night’:

Angela Slatter uses the idea of there being a parallel, magical world to the mundane one, which only occasionally intersect – in this case, taking children from the mundane for nefarious purposes. It’s a great story, with entertaining characters and
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Review of Sprawl

… over at Guy Salvidge’s place. Sprawl is the latest anthology from TPP and has some awesome stuff from the likes of Peter M. Ball, L.L. Hannett, Sean Williams, et al.

He says nice things about Brisneyland by Night:

“Brisneyland by Night” by Angela Slatter is an intriguing and complex tale about the Weyrd, and more specifically a kinderfresser or child eater.
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The Undead Drive-by: Robert Hood

Australian author Robert Hood is a legend in zombie, giant monster and general horror circles. Why? Coz he just tells a damned good tale that will make the hairs on the back of your neck stand up and whimper. He has been tutored by Thea Astley at university,
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I really *am* working

No, no, no, I really am working!

I finished off the latest collab with Lisa Hannett, Prohibition Blues, on Friday night (faeries, shoes, werewolves, bayous, tie-pins!). Then last night I finished off Sun Falls (talking head in a box). Today I am going to take a tilt at the novella Ragged Run (oh, too complicated), which follows on from
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The Twelfth Planety Drive-by: Alisa Krasnostein

Alisa Krasnostein is the unsleeping powerhouse that is the engine of Twelfth Planet Press. Really, she doesn’t sleep – email her at any hour of the day or night and she’ll reply. Go ahead. Try it. See? Told ya.

TPP has produced some of the finestworks in Australian spec-fic recently:
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Why have I not done this before now?

I haz bin remiss.

The talented and prolific Marianne de Pierres has a short story collection out with Twelfth Planet Press, Glitter Rose. It is a limited edition, hard cover with an Intro by Trent Jamieson (he of Death Most Definite). All books should be beautiful.

It has a lovely
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We are writers for many reasons …

… one of those reasons may be that, without the dubious protection of our writer tag,  the rest of society would lock us up for posts like this, in which we replace psychotic cats with sociopathic bears:

Peter wakes up to find the Spokesbear sitting on his chest, staring him in the face.

Spokesbear: Time to work.
Peter: Fuck off.
Spokesbear: You’re not sick anymore.
Peter: I
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Can you keep a secret?

Well, honestly, if the answer is “Yes”, then go away – don’t want your kind here :-) .

Because this needs to get out!

Twelfth Planet Press is doing an awesome thing for 2011. 

“Even more awesome than Horn, Siren Beat/Roadkill, Glitter Rose, New Ceres Nights, Sprawl,
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