Download or read book You Don t Want To Be Published Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these essays, Peter M. Ball-Aurealis award-winning author and founder of Brian Jar Press-explores the seemingly unintuitive lessons he's learned over twenty years of writing, educating other writers, and running writing conferences attended by hundreds of authors at every level of experience. Drawn from some of his most popular blog posts, author presentations, and articles, You Don't Want To Be Published sets out to bring the kind of conversations established writers have in private to a more general audience. Here Ball explores the anxieties of building a writing career, the unexpected writing lesson drawn from other forms of narrative, the importance of treating your business like a business, and the subtle shifts in psychology and mindset that can help push your writing career to the next level. Primarily written during the years Ball convened the popular GenreCon Writers Conference and managed the Australian Writers Marketplace, these essays also strive to find the questions new writers don't yet know they should be asking, while arguing the most common inquiry new writers pursue-how do I get published?-is actually the worst place to start. Whether you're a new writer looking to sidestep the common problems, an established writer trying to figure out why your career feels like it's been derailed, or you're simply eager to figure out a new strategy that can push your career forward, You Don't Want to Be Published is full of blunt, irreverent, and unexpected advice that just might change the way you look at the writer's job forever.
Download or read book You Don t Want to Be Published and Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing written by Peter M. Ball and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-22 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sixteen blunt and unconventional essays about writing and the writing business from the former manager of the Australian Writer's Marketplace.
Download or read book You Don t Want to Be Published and Other Things Nobody Tells You When You First Start Writing written by Peter M. Ball and published by . This book was released on 2019-05-24 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you want to skip the silly mistakes that derail the careers of many new writers? Are you interested in a long-term career that's focused on meeting your real writing goals? Building on two decades of experience as a writer, conference organiser, arts worker, and writing teacher, Peter M. Ball sets out to give the answers most new writers don't want to hear...but really do need to know. You Don't Want To Be Published features sixteen essays focused on the mindset and psychology that lie at the heart of being a long-term writer: learning to treat your business like business, building a network that will help you succeed, setting smarter goals, and dealing with the realities of making your living through your words. Most importantly, it asks you to accept one counter-intuitive fact: you don't really want to be published. What you really want happens after your book comes out--and learning to focus on those desires will help you build a longer, more satisfying career. Essays featured in this book include: The Nine Business Mantras of a Cranky Writer You Don't Want To Be Published Focus on the Mountain, Not the Map Writing, Budgeting, and Shame Let's Be Clear: I Know Fuck-All About Writing and Publishing (and That Helps) How To Process Writing Advice: Use What Works How To Process Writing Advice: Diversify Your Sources There Is Nothing Surprising About A Writer Getting Rejected (Even JK Rowling) 5 Reasons Rejection Letters Are Actually Awesome Yes, You Are Wasting Your Time As A Writer The First Rule of Write Club The Incredible Sucker-Punch Of Success Networking Tips For Reclusive, Introverted Writer-Types How To Get The Most Out Of An SF Convention As An (Introverted) Emerging Writer Al Snow's Advice For Writers Patreon, Tools, Tactics, & Strategy
Download or read book Last Lecture written by Perfection Learning Corporation and published by Turtleback. This book was released on 2019 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor Other Things We Called The Band written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their final gig ended with two hundred people dead. Patrick’s only regret is that he wasn’t there to be a part of it. There were three things everyone knew about the band: they played like demons, sang like angels, and there was definitely something magic about the way they glowed onstage. Patrick’s still hanging onto that, 15 years after their final gig. All those people may be dead, but they were part of something special and he chickened out before the end. Now he’s back on the Gold Coast for the first time in years, walking the streets where he used to see the posters, going past clubs that have been turned into Korean restaurant instead of a home for punk gigs. He can remember everything about those years when he was a fan, and he’s loaded with regrets about the gigs he missed. The band were called many things in their day: Hornet’s Attack Your Best Friend Victor; Whisky-Whisky-111; All that Glitters and We Will Always Have the Lighthouse My Melancholy Bride. None of those names stuck. None of them felt real. And Patrick isn’t sure he cares what the band was called—he just wants to touch that feeling he lost, no matter what it might cost him.
Download or read book The Birdcage Heart Other Strange Tales written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2017-11-30 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 12 short stories those who love strange, heartbreaking, and unforgettable fantasy. What if kaiju decimated your hometown, but only half the population could see them? What if mermaids unleashed their wrath against Copenhagen using mechanoid war-machines? What if the man you loved wanted nothing more than running away to live with the faeries, but you were the one they wanted to take with them? The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales gathers together twelve wild and genre-bending fantasy tales from the pen of Peter M Ball, the Ditmar and Aurealis Award-winning author of the cult hit Horn and the Keith Murphy urban fantasy thrillers. These scintillating tales draw inspiration from myth, pop-culture, magic realism and Lovecraftian horrors, showcasing Peter M. Ball’s talent for blurring the line between genres and finding the sublime in both the everyday and the extraordinary. Come meet a man with a birdcage where his heart should be, the resident of Isla Tortuga’s most dangerous bordello, clockwork goats and smokestack magi, dragonkeepers, vengeful musicians, and frustrated public servants. Walk paths through briar-choked cities, deceptively ordinary towns, and an endless stairwell populated by tourists. Prepare yourself for the wickedly inventive magic and startlingly human moments. Whether you’re already a fan of Peter M. Ball, or you’re just about to become one, The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales is a debut collection that shouldn’t be missed. PRAISE FOR PETER M. BALL "Only Peter M. Ball's fiction makes falling down the rabbit hole feel like flying. Funny and surprising, with moments of extraordinary grace." Angela Slatter, Author of the World Fantasy Award-winning The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings TABLE OF CONTENTS - The Last, Great House of Isla Tortuga - On the Destruction of Copenhagen By the War-Machines of the Merfolk - The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta - It’s Not A Bad Job, Really - The Dragonkeeper’s Wife - On the Finding Of Photographs Of My Former Loves - The Clockwork Goat & The Smokestack Magus - The Birdcage Heart - On the Cliffs, By The Sea - Briar Day - L’esprit de L’escalier - On the Arrival of the Paddle-Steamer on the Docks of V—
Download or read book Crusade written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2015-07-15 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keith followed orders. He came back home. He freed his soul and laid claim to a magic sword. But Keith Murphy doesn’t have time to rest, because his sorcerous partner Danny Roark is out of commission and the end of the world is thundering towards humanity like a freight train on steroids. As the elder entities from the depths of the Gloom break through the veil of reality with increasing regularity, Keith is forced to assemble a rag-tag army of demons, seers, and reluctant allies to stop Ragnarök from occurring.
Download or read book These Strange Magic Things Short Stories written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of the weird and enchanting, Peter M Ball returns with a third collection of speculative fiction stories that dance along the borders between horror, fantasy, and science fiction. These Strange and Magic Things collects fifteen tales showcasing why he’s among the finest writers of the strange and fantastic working in Australia right now. A zombie survival kit started as a private joke takes on new meaning in a failing marriage. A trip to the moon goes wrong when dinosaurs attack the anti-grav train in transit. The difficulties of high school prove much worse when Mike learns he’s a werewolf. A drunken party trick goes wrong when a boy with bats in his head decides to show everyone he can catch a bullet with is bare hands. Hit man to the supernatural, Keith Murphy, comes up against a demon who draws power from the wrestling ring. He’s too tough to gun down and impervious to magic, which means Keith’s only got one option - step up, play by the rules of the ring, and accept the possibility he might just be the local hero the Gold Coast needs. In These Strange and Magic Things Ball spins magic, horror, and pop culture together into an unforgettable collection of tales featuring rogue jinn, uncanny rock bands, magic bees, flying crocodiles, laundromat ghosts, haunted coins, cyberpunk gangs, and lost loves.
Download or read book Gold Coast 2002 Poems written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years before he built his name as a science fiction and fantasy author, Peter M. Ball was a young poet and member of the Gold Coast’s Post Hoc Performing Word collective, building a profile with publications in venerable magazines such as Overland and performances at writer’s festivals around Australia. Gold Coast, 2002, collects 24 poems capturing life as a permanent resident of Australia’s most notorious tourist destination, bringing them into print for the first time in 20 years.
Download or read book Briar Day written by Peter M. Ball and published by Eclectic Projects. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published here as a stand-alone chapbook, Briar Day is a short, slipstream story about masculinity, fairy tales, and the narratives we tell ourselves. Also available in the collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales. Everyone remembers where they were when the briars first choked the city. Everyone celebrates the anniversary of their rescue from the rampaging dragon and the mysterious curse that afflicted Brisbane. But not everybody is in the mood to celebrate the anniversary of Briar Day, and for two old friends with terrible memories of the day, the annual celebrations are nothing but a source of heartbreak.
Download or read book Clockwork Patchwork Raven written by Peter M. Ball and published by Eclectic Projects. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Randal finds an injured girl, cruelly beaten and cut apart by the genetically modified crow boys, he dreams of rising above his status as a clockwork man and becoming a hero. With the help of his adopted father, Jackson, Randal patches the girl together and nurses her back to health using the same clockwork cybernetics that brought Randal back from death. But grim streets of Downside are no place for fairy tales, and gangs do not let people walk away without paying a price. As the crow boys gather, demanding Randal turn over their injured prey, the clockwork man will find out the hero’s path can be deadly. Winner of the 2009 Aurealis Awards for best Science Fiction Short Story, and also available as part of the collection Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet.
Download or read book Frost written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2022-11-26 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule one for surviving Ragnarök? Don’t piss off a Valkyrie. Ex-hitman Keith Murphy sold his services to a demon in order to stop an apocalyptic cult. Now he’s stuck fighting a gang way against a local biker gang who knows far too much about magic for a pack of mortals. A routine hit turns into a mystery, and that mystery leads to a series of deaths with a very unexpected source. Something has crossed over from the darkest parts of the Gloom, and it seems like Keith sold his soul to delay Ragnarök instead of stopping it. The last, long winter frost before the end of the world is setting in, and the only man who can stop it is a pissed-off, well-armed assassin with nothing left to lose… Equal parts John Wick and John Constantine, the Keith Murphy series is an apocalyptic thrill ride that blends the thriller with urban fantasy. PRAISE FOR THE KEITH MURPHY SERIES “All the grit and growl of the golden age detectives let loose upon the monsters and magics that keep us fascinated (and occasionally afraid) as we curl up on the couch at night. Ball is masterful in his use of tension, with a knack for keeping readers glued to the screen or page. His ability to showcase emotional connections and complications without devolving into self-pitying monologues or poetic meanderings give the stories an action movie vibe that adds tension and focus to the stories.” Kylie Thompson, HushHushBiz
Download or read book Deadbeats A Helix City Short Story written by Peter M. Ball and published by Eclectic Projects. This book was released on 2021-01-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cody Jones owes the corp a lot of money. Decanted from a cryotube with a mountain of debt and very few options, she works corporate black ops in Downside—home to the gene-freaks, gangs, and dispossessed who don’t have a place in the gleaming towers of Helix City. Cody’s latest job is simple: recover a fresh cache of cryogenically frozen citizens from a local gang before they’re bartered to the highest bidder. Deliver them to Bellamy and knock a little more off her debt. Pity the gangs have their own ideas about how this deal needs to go. What should be a simple recovery gig sees Cody and her partner caught in a conflict between the hulking kaiju-gangers and drug-addled zealots, and both sides have plans for the sleepers just might change Cody’s world foreve
Download or read book Deeper Cuts written by Peter M. Ball and published by Eclectic Projects. This book was released on 2022-03-08 with total page 29 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peter M. Ball made his debut as a speculative fiction writer in 2007, but he’d already been writing for over a decade before turning his attention to science fiction and fantasy. This chapbook brings two early, formative short stories back into print, featuring the discontinuous, post-modern grunge-lit of Night, Morning, Story and the crude horror of Impact. The chapbook also includes a short author’s note, positioning these early works in the landscape of Ball’s later career and his first steps away from writing poetry. Ideal for fans who enjoy not just the deep cuts of an author’s back catalogue, but delving all the way back to see early influences and techniques in their nascent form.
Download or read book Unauthorized Live Recording written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their music could be fatal, but their legacy lives on. Mia Dermott documents the stories of surviving in the back room of a record store, seeking a connection to the father she never got a chance to know. Her latest interviewee recounts a story of the band’s first gig, and the surprisingly legacy that her father left behind: the sole bootleg of the four-piece’s gigs that actually registered their music. It’s a tape Mia needs to find if she ever wants to understand why her father chose to die. And a tape the obsessed fans would kill to hear, if only they knew where to find it. Issue 2 in The Kaleidoscope’s Children, a mosaic series of uncanny tales set in the world of Hornets Attack Your Best Friend Victor & Other Things We Called The Band.
Download or read book One Saturday Night With Angel written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2020-07-16 with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Read the first short story in Peter M. Ball’s Seraphim Plague series, One Saturday Night, With Angel (also available in the short story collection Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet). There’s an angel perched on the Nite Owl roof when Mike shows up for the graveyard shift. He thinks it’s the same angel whose been following him for a week. Everybody thinks Mike’s going to be purged before morning, Elvis and all the other regulars are telling him so. But Mike figures he’s lasted six days without pissing the angel off. With luck, he can make it seven and they’ll find some other victim…
Download or read book The Last Great House of Isla Tortuga written by Peter M. Ball and published by Brain Jar Press. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cabin boy with a secret is lead astray in Tortuga’s last great house of ill repute, where the ladies have all returned after death full of mysteries to be unravelled. The Captain promised Tobias Truman a night to remember, but what Toby seeks behind closed doors is a truth only a lady of the house can reveal. The first story in the Crossbones & Sorcery series, available as a stand-alone ebook (also included in the short story collection The Birdcage Heart & Other Stories)
