Day: February 7, 2020

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Personalised Chapbook Offer: The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta

Print copies of The Seventeen Executions of Signore Don Vashta landed in my mailbox today, and they’ve come up rather beautifully for a thirty-page chapbook. About half the very short print run are already spoken for, heading off to various friends and authors I’m courting for future projects who wanted to see how the chapbooks turned out. The other half are reserved for the handful of folks who might want a personalised print copy, and are willing to order direct from me. I’m not particularly high-tech about these things (at least, not yet). , so the process is as follows. To grab one, paypal me at PeterMBall@gmail.com. Amounts to paypal as follows: One signed copy, on a “give it to me next time we see each other” delivery model: $7.50 One signed copy, posted anywhere in Australia: $9.50  One signed copy, posted overseas: $15 Australian folks can order multiple copies by adding an additional $7.50 to the prices above. Overseas

Conspicuous Acts of Cultural Consumption

Reasons to follow newsletters

Comics writer Kieron Gillen sent out his latest newsletter yesterday, which featured a line-up of his top music tracks of 2019. Gillen’s got a background as a DJ, and writes some pretty awesome music-inspired works, and his newsletter has introduced me to a bunch of music I would have overlooked. He introduced The Comet Is Coming thusly: People occasionally ask me about whether there’s going to be a Doctor Aphra show or not (answer: no idea) but no-one’s actually asked what I’d like to see in a Doctor Aphra show. My answer: I would like to see them back a cart of money up to The Comet Is Coming and get them to record the complete score. Listen to this. You want to watch the show this is the theme tune for. This is an explosion, a promise, all propulsion and sex. I walk, it soars, the world is better. Newsletter 144: momentarily Manichean, Kieron Gillen I loved his Doctor