News round up
Today I am interviewed by Charles Tan over at Bibliophile Stalker and I reveal where the heck the name Twelfth Planet Press comes from.
I was also snapshot last night by kathrynlinge - here
In Ben Peek's snapshot here on Monday, he revealed an upcoming Twelfth Planet Press project - a Novella Double called Above/Below by Stephanie Campisi/Ben Peek. Together, this pair of novellas will tell the story of what happened after the city fell from the sky, from two very different perspectives - one from above, in the floating city of Loft, and one from the planet below, in Dirt.
There's also been a bunch of reviews and mentions of Twelfth Planet Press books lately and some lovely mentions inside the February issue of Locus, aside from the Recommended Reading List. On Locus online, Jeff Vandermeer called TPP his "new favourite indie press" and listed Horn in "Little Books with Big Hearts" saying:
Ball's novella-in-book-form from my new favorite indie press, Twelfth Planet, combines noir and faery in a hardboiled structure that plays knowingly with the tropes of both subgenres; he is without a doubt one of the best of the up-and-coming writers in the field.
Of Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings he said:
Among collections by relatively new writers, I found Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings, Eugie Foster's Returning My Sister's Face, and Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight the most compelling. None of these collections were perfect, but each was lively and willing to take chances.
And of New Ceres Nights - might be the sleeper anthology of the year. It's consistently lively and interesting in developing its shared setting.
In other reviews, Rich Horton wrapped up Overseas Anthologies and said of New Ceres Nights:
New Ceres Nights is a set of stories in the shared world of New Ceres ... I like the New Ceres stories in general, and this was an enjoyable book. I particularly liked Tansy Rayner Roberts’s "Prosperine When It Sizzles", featuring the very popular character La Duchesse and her assistant M. Pepin -- about whom we learn some secrets as he meets an old offworld acquaintance while the two of them try to rescue a prominent politician’s children from some unfortunate choices in entertainment; and Sylvia Kelso’s "The Sharp Shooter", in which the title character comes to a remote farm to help eliminate a dangerous beast.
And A Book of Endings got an in depth review at Strange Horizons where they likened her work to that of Kelly Link.
I was also snapshot last night by kathrynlinge - here
In Ben Peek's snapshot here on Monday, he revealed an upcoming Twelfth Planet Press project - a Novella Double called Above/Below by Stephanie Campisi/Ben Peek. Together, this pair of novellas will tell the story of what happened after the city fell from the sky, from two very different perspectives - one from above, in the floating city of Loft, and one from the planet below, in Dirt.
There's also been a bunch of reviews and mentions of Twelfth Planet Press books lately and some lovely mentions inside the February issue of Locus, aside from the Recommended Reading List. On Locus online, Jeff Vandermeer called TPP his "new favourite indie press" and listed Horn in "Little Books with Big Hearts" saying:
Ball's novella-in-book-form from my new favorite indie press, Twelfth Planet, combines noir and faery in a hardboiled structure that plays knowingly with the tropes of both subgenres; he is without a doubt one of the best of the up-and-coming writers in the field.
Of Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings he said:
Among collections by relatively new writers, I found Deborah Biancotti's A Book of Endings, Eugie Foster's Returning My Sister's Face, and Cat Rambo's Eyes Like Sky and Coal and Moonlight the most compelling. None of these collections were perfect, but each was lively and willing to take chances.
And of New Ceres Nights - might be the sleeper anthology of the year. It's consistently lively and interesting in developing its shared setting.
In other reviews, Rich Horton wrapped up Overseas Anthologies and said of New Ceres Nights:
New Ceres Nights is a set of stories in the shared world of New Ceres ... I like the New Ceres stories in general, and this was an enjoyable book. I particularly liked Tansy Rayner Roberts’s "Prosperine When It Sizzles", featuring the very popular character La Duchesse and her assistant M. Pepin -- about whom we learn some secrets as he meets an old offworld acquaintance while the two of them try to rescue a prominent politician’s children from some unfortunate choices in entertainment; and Sylvia Kelso’s "The Sharp Shooter", in which the title character comes to a remote farm to help eliminate a dangerous beast.
And A Book of Endings got an in depth review at Strange Horizons where they likened her work to that of Kelly Link.