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Book Trailer
With every book we do, I try to tweak things that I learned in the production of the previous book. This time round, we are changing the size of the book to a standard paperback. It's sort of a big deal for me and took a few titles before I was ready to make this change and mostly I was hesitant because I picked the book size for Twelfth Planet ( Read more... ) -
Social Networking should work for you
I attended a really interesting panel at Capclave a few weeks ago about the presence writers should have on the internet - how much is too much, etc. And it got me thinking a bit about a few things that weren't mentioned on the panel. This flowed on from a discussion about what is appropriate and what is not and where the line should be about how ( Read more... ) -
Maintaining vision; learning to wield the power of the No
I am a person who hates to tell people what they don't want to hear. That sometimes makes being an editor a little bit difficult and uncomfortable for me. Very early on I had to separate the need for pleasing people from the slushing process. I've been slushing for over 5 years now so I'm well practiced at it. When I started up Twelfth Planet Press ( Read more... ) -
Growing pains
In solidarity for the NaNoWriMo participants out there, I'm doing a "make lifestyle changes at highspeed" thing for the month of November. And part of that involves coming back to this much neglected livejournal account and writing a bunch of posts I've been wanting to write for a while and posting them throughout the month of November ( Read more... ) -
On rejecting submissions
I've been neglecting this journal and I'm sorry for that. I recently was talking about this particular space and about how I don't think I've used it its full potential. I might try doing that for the next little while - using it as more of the Twelfth Planet Press space and carving that content out of my personal blog at girliejones. Managing your online ( Read more... ) -
Updated logo
We're in the process of getting ready for Aussiecon 4 and the very talented catsparx updated our logo:
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Your Author Bio is your Business Card
I'm pulling together the final bits and pieces for Sprawl and it got me thinking about author bios. Sprawl is going to be the flagship book for Twelfth Planet Press at Aussiecon 4 in September. It's the biggest anthology we've done to date and I think it is also the strongest. With a very strong Australian suburban voice, it will aim to present to ( Read more... ) -
TwelfthPlanetCast Episode 1
Episode 1 of TwelfthPlanetCast is now available for download. It will soon be available for subscription in iTunes.
Show Notes:
“One Saturday Night, With Angel” by Peter M Ball forthcoming in Sprawl.
Story read by Nick Evans.
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On ensuring subsequent story sales
Yesterday as I was driving out to a local writers' minicon where I was selling Twelfth Planet Press books, I was thinking about how for me, I am so much more concerned with the production side of writing. I was thinking about how this con would (and did) spend a lot of time talking about the writing process and all aspects of speculative fiction ( Read more... )
