NEWS
Announcing Something New Can Come Into This World by Grant Watson
Twelfth Planet Press is delighted to announce the forthcoming book of essays titled Something New Can Come Into This World, by Grant Watson. Scheduled for release this September 2015, Something New Can Come Into This World collects together into one volume the first...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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.
Hannett and Slatter on Vox From Their Collection The Female Factory
We've sent Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter 's collection The Female Factory, Volume 11 of the Twelve Planets series, to the printer's. In the meantime, here they are talking a bit about the book and the short story Vox. I didn't know they'd kvetched about it, but I...
Weightless Weekly Sale: TRUCKSONG
This week's sale over at Weightless Books is Trucksong by Andrew Macrae. Grab the ebook today only for just $1.99 - bargain! Available here.
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...