PeterMBall

Peter M. Ball is a speculative fiction writer, small press publisher, and writing mentor from Brisbane, Austraila. He publishes his own work through Eclectic Projects and works as the brain in charge at Brain Jar Press.

The only adequate response to Brisbane’s heatwave

I did not post yesterday
’cause I was off drinking beer.

Forgive me, it was cold
And delicious.

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Is Social Media Really “Free” Book Marketing?

29/05/2025 No Comments

Part two in an ongoing series thinking through the relationship between social media, marketing, and being an active writer. You can read

And Now We Are Forty-Eight

18/03/2025 No Comments

It’s the eighteenth of March here in Australia, which means I’ve just turned another year older. We’re still fixing things up after

Two Writing and Publishing Lessons from the First Hours of A Hurricane

06/03/2025 No Comments

I’m writing this from an apartment packed down for impending cyclone/hurricane due to hit Brisbane some time in the next 24 hours.

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saint_matthew says:

07/12/2012 at 4:08 AM

Just realised you are writing from Australia & you've been running M&M. Hello fellow M&M gamer, from your Perth M&M brothers & sisters.

God, i'll be happy when Summers over… But Brisbane usually gets it worse then we do.

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PeterMBall says:

09/12/2012 at 4:22 AM

Glad to see the supers flag is flying high on the other Australian coast.

And I think Summer's pretty much a pain in the arse most places in Australia – it's just a matter of what kind of summer you're used to enduring (I usually feel sorry for the poor bastards stuck in Cairns and Darwin).

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