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Goodreads Giveaway

Goodreads Giveaway

We're running a Goodreads Giveaway for the Year's Best Speculative YA 2013 - enter to win! Goodreads Book Giveaway Year's Best Young Adult Speculative Fiction 2013 by Julia Rios Giveaway ends April 28, 2015. See the giveaway details at Goodreads. Enter to...

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Defying Doomsday Crowdfunding Campaign on Pozible

Defying Doomsday Crowdfunding Campaign on Pozible

Disabled characters are rarely seen in apocalypse stories, but Defying Doomsday is an anthology set to explore the tales of those usually left for dead. We're currently crowdfunding via a Pozible campaign, with the assistance of a Crowbar grant from Arts Tasmania (of...

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Cherry Crow Children Cover Reveal

Cherry Crow Children Cover Reveal

Today I approved the printer's proofs for The Cherry Crow Children (Volume 12 in the Twelve Planets series), written by Deborah Kalin. I'm so very excited to see this final volume in the series be completed. Behold the beautiful cover by Amanda Rainey: The Cherry Crow...

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Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 Honourable Mentions

Year’s Best YA Speculative Fiction 2013 Honourable Mentions

Uncovering the best young adult short fiction of the year published in the anthologies dedicated to the form, the occasional special edition of a magazine, and individual pieces appearing in otherwise “adult” anthologies and magazines, and bringing them together in...

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The Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction

Twelfth Planet Press is proud to support the 2015 The Rachel Funari Prize for Fiction. "This is a themed fiction competition, open to all ages and genders. Rachel Funari, the namesake of the competition, was the founding editor of Lip. Tragically, Rachel went missing...

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Awards Eligibility for Our 2014 Works

We're often asked for the word counts for our stories for award eligibility. For our works first published in 2014, there are two novelettes in Kaleidoscope - "The Legend Trap" by Sean Williams and "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss and Tell" by E. C. Myers. All the other works are...

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Cherry Crow Children, the Twelfth Twelve Planets volume

I fell in love with Deborah Kalin's "Wages of Honey" when she submitted it to the novelette doubles series. I didn't buy it for that because it was getting too hard to pair works for that. Instead, after I won my World Fantasy Award in San Diego, I asked her in the...

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Free E-Book of The Female Factory with Every Preorder

To celebrate the forthcoming release of The Female Factory by the award winning duo Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter, we're giving away the ebook version with every preorder of the paperback for the whole of December. Simply order your paperback copy here.  

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Drowned Vanilla Book Launch Hobart

Drowned Vanilla Book Launch Hobart

WHERE: Hobart Bookshop, Salamanca Place, Hobart Tasmania. WHEN: 5:30-7pm, Thursday 20 November Kate Gordon, author of Thyla and Writing Clementine, will be launching Drowned Vanilla by Livia Day at the Hobart Bookshop. Please come and join us! There will be wine, and...

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