Peter M. Ball
@petermball.bsky.social
Genrepunk. Writing/Publishing Nerd. Writing neo-pulp stories at GenrePunk Books and publishing outstanding genre fiction at BrainJarPress. He/him.
Yesterday, I passed the halfway point on the draft of a new Red Rain sequence, which largely means there will be a sequel to WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BRAINS at some point in the future.
Until then, you can grab a copy of the first collection here: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Until then, you can grab a copy of the first collection here: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
May 8, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Yesterday, I passed the halfway point on the draft of a new Red Rain sequence, which largely means there will be a sequel to WHAT WE TALK ABOUT WHEN WE TALK ABOUT BRAINS at some point in the future.
Until then, you can grab a copy of the first collection here: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Until then, you can grab a copy of the first collection here: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
New issue of GenrePunk Ninja, my writing and publishing newsletter, is now live. First in a series on author platform and social media in 2025.
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February 28, 2025 at 3:17 AM
New issue of GenrePunk Ninja, my writing and publishing newsletter, is now live. First in a series on author platform and social media in 2025.
Subscriptions and previous issues at Genrepunk.ninja
Subscriptions and previous issues at Genrepunk.ninja
If I say it five times in a week, it becomes a coffee mug.
(Unfortunately for my spouse mouse, this is not limited to things I say repeatedly online)
The "You'll Have To Repeat That, I Was Thinking About My Book" mug is live at the GenrePunk store. petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
(Unfortunately for my spouse mouse, this is not limited to things I say repeatedly online)
The "You'll Have To Repeat That, I Was Thinking About My Book" mug is live at the GenrePunk store. petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
February 26, 2025 at 9:01 AM
If I say it five times in a week, it becomes a coffee mug.
(Unfortunately for my spouse mouse, this is not limited to things I say repeatedly online)
The "You'll Have To Repeat That, I Was Thinking About My Book" mug is live at the GenrePunk store. petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
(Unfortunately for my spouse mouse, this is not limited to things I say repeatedly online)
The "You'll Have To Repeat That, I Was Thinking About My Book" mug is live at the GenrePunk store. petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
My new personal rule is that I've had to say something more than five times on social media in the space of a week, I make a coffee mug about it so there's an image to post instead.
February 23, 2025 at 11:04 PM
My new personal rule is that I've had to say something more than five times on social media in the space of a week, I make a coffee mug about it so there's an image to post instead.
Four and a half weeks until the nerdiest (and yet, most useful) book I will ever write hits shelves.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
February 21, 2025 at 1:55 AM
Four and a half weeks until the nerdiest (and yet, most useful) book I will ever write hits shelves.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Nothing says Christmas like putting a Santa hat on a zombie, right?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brains hits shelves on January 21, but I'm shipping from the GenrePunk Books store early. Bleak, terse zombie stories in the styule of Raymond Carver.
Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brains hits shelves on January 21, but I'm shipping from the GenrePunk Books store early. Bleak, terse zombie stories in the styule of Raymond Carver.
Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
December 10, 2024 at 11:09 PM
Nothing says Christmas like putting a Santa hat on a zombie, right?
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brains hits shelves on January 21, but I'm shipping from the GenrePunk Books store early. Bleak, terse zombie stories in the styule of Raymond Carver.
Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
What We Talk About When We Talk About Brains hits shelves on January 21, but I'm shipping from the GenrePunk Books store early. Bleak, terse zombie stories in the styule of Raymond Carver.
Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Table of Contents for my big non-fiction book of 2025, based upon my doctoral research into the poetics of series fiction in the age of the internet.
Probably the nerdiest thing I will ever release into the world, which is saying something, really...
Probably the nerdiest thing I will ever release into the world, which is saying something, really...
December 2, 2024 at 7:06 AM
Table of Contents for my big non-fiction book of 2025, based upon my doctoral research into the poetics of series fiction in the age of the internet.
Probably the nerdiest thing I will ever release into the world, which is saying something, really...
Probably the nerdiest thing I will ever release into the world, which is saying something, really...
Robert Silverberg's book, In The Beginning, collects a bunch of his older pulp fiction alognside introductory peices about the pulp era.
I read primarily for the industry memoir. That era is wild. Writing to fill page count, as staff writers did, seems foreign to contemporary writing.
I read primarily for the industry memoir. That era is wild. Writing to fill page count, as staff writers did, seems foreign to contemporary writing.
November 27, 2024 at 3:13 AM
Robert Silverberg's book, In The Beginning, collects a bunch of his older pulp fiction alognside introductory peices about the pulp era.
I read primarily for the industry memoir. That era is wild. Writing to fill page count, as staff writers did, seems foreign to contemporary writing.
I read primarily for the industry memoir. That era is wild. Writing to fill page count, as staff writers did, seems foreign to contemporary writing.
So I got on a bit of a roll yesterday and put all the first quarter GenrePunk releases up on my webstore for pre-order.
Also set up a neat bundle deal for folks who'd like to order all three at once. Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Also set up a neat bundle deal for folks who'd like to order all three at once. Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
November 19, 2024 at 10:43 PM
So I got on a bit of a roll yesterday and put all the first quarter GenrePunk releases up on my webstore for pre-order.
Also set up a neat bundle deal for folks who'd like to order all three at once. Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Also set up a neat bundle deal for folks who'd like to order all three at once. Details: petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
The collected Red Rain stories are now available for pre-order over on the GenrePunk Store.
Written for that select group of people who who love zombie stories and Raymond Carver in equal measure.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Written for that select group of people who who love zombie stories and Raymond Carver in equal measure.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
November 19, 2024 at 5:09 AM
The collected Red Rain stories are now available for pre-order over on the GenrePunk Store.
Written for that select group of people who who love zombie stories and Raymond Carver in equal measure.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
Written for that select group of people who who love zombie stories and Raymond Carver in equal measure.
petermball.com/GenrePunkSto...
"Get in, loser. We're reading small press speculative fiction and horror."
November 16, 2024 at 6:05 AM
"Get in, loser. We're reading small press speculative fiction and horror."
The senior feline editorial assistant has some very firm ideas about my suggestion we add reading slush to her duties around the office.
The junior feline editorial assistant buggered to chase feathers across the bedroom.
The junior feline editorial assistant buggered to chase feathers across the bedroom.
November 14, 2024 at 6:12 AM
The senior feline editorial assistant has some very firm ideas about my suggestion we add reading slush to her duties around the office.
The junior feline editorial assistant buggered to chase feathers across the bedroom.
The junior feline editorial assistant buggered to chase feathers across the bedroom.
My favourite thing I've come across in my reading this week: Alfred Bester’s empiric equation for his science fiction writing (via Hell’s Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers)
I'm pretty sure, based on context, that what he's dubbed hysteria would get called flow today.
I'm pretty sure, based on context, that what he's dubbed hysteria would get called flow today.
September 7, 2024 at 8:21 AM
My favourite thing I've come across in my reading this week: Alfred Bester’s empiric equation for his science fiction writing (via Hell’s Cartographers: Some Personal Histories of Science Fiction Writers)
I'm pretty sure, based on context, that what he's dubbed hysteria would get called flow today.
I'm pretty sure, based on context, that what he's dubbed hysteria would get called flow today.
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Even with the plethora of supernatural powers on offer, I think I'm fucked.
Even with the plethora of supernatural powers on offer, I think I'm fucked.
September 5, 2024 at 10:53 PM
You've been kidnapped. The characters from the last tv show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you?
Even with the plethora of supernatural powers on offer, I think I'm fucked.
Even with the plethora of supernatural powers on offer, I think I'm fucked.
I've been getting analogue with project planning and logging over the last week, working with a new pen that leaves little dot-point ink stains on the recto page and smudges the text.
Slowly hacking away at the overlong list of unfinished things that have been building up over the last year.
Slowly hacking away at the overlong list of unfinished things that have been building up over the last year.
July 4, 2024 at 11:55 PM
I've been getting analogue with project planning and logging over the last week, working with a new pen that leaves little dot-point ink stains on the recto page and smudges the text.
Slowly hacking away at the overlong list of unfinished things that have been building up over the last year.
Slowly hacking away at the overlong list of unfinished things that have been building up over the last year.
So over the last year I've written a series of stories which basically ask, "What would Raymond Carver's stories look like if he wrote during a zombie apocalypse?"
Terse, dirty literary realism is way more fun when everybody thinks the walking dead will eat them.
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Terse, dirty literary realism is way more fun when everybody thinks the walking dead will eat them.
petermball.com/product-cate...
May 30, 2024 at 7:15 AM
So over the last year I've written a series of stories which basically ask, "What would Raymond Carver's stories look like if he wrote during a zombie apocalypse?"
Terse, dirty literary realism is way more fun when everybody thinks the walking dead will eat them.
petermball.com/product-cate...
Terse, dirty literary realism is way more fun when everybody thinks the walking dead will eat them.
petermball.com/product-cate...
Jason Nahrung's Cruel Nights launches in 11 days. The first print run has arrived in the office.
Short pitch: what if 90s vampire fiction continued the stories into the 2000s, with full awareness of how the world changed?
Short pitch: what if 90s vampire fiction continued the stories into the 2000s, with full awareness of how the world changed?
May 9, 2024 at 9:44 PM
Jason Nahrung's Cruel Nights launches in 11 days. The first print run has arrived in the office.
Short pitch: what if 90s vampire fiction continued the stories into the 2000s, with full awareness of how the world changed?
Short pitch: what if 90s vampire fiction continued the stories into the 2000s, with full awareness of how the world changed?
Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat.
April 20, 2024 at 8:45 AM
Reskeet with a banger picture of your cat.
Fresh from the printer and so much prettier than I’d hoped.
March 4, 2024 at 1:21 AM
Fresh from the printer and so much prettier than I’d hoped.
Happy Publisher Dance!
"Slatter is one of the best short fiction writers out there, and this collection will hit the mark with her fans while also being a perfect introduction to her work for those who haven't read it yet. Don't miss it." —Locus Magazine on The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings
"Slatter is one of the best short fiction writers out there, and this collection will hit the mark with her fans while also being a perfect introduction to her work for those who haven't read it yet. Don't miss it." —Locus Magazine on The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings
March 3, 2024 at 6:40 AM
Happy Publisher Dance!
"Slatter is one of the best short fiction writers out there, and this collection will hit the mark with her fans while also being a perfect introduction to her work for those who haven't read it yet. Don't miss it." —Locus Magazine on The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings
"Slatter is one of the best short fiction writers out there, and this collection will hit the mark with her fans while also being a perfect introduction to her work for those who haven't read it yet. Don't miss it." —Locus Magazine on The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings
Reviewing old posts reminded me of Kate Beaton's Sexy Batman issue of Hark, A Vagrant, which is a very pleasant thing to return to on a Sunday morning.
Worth revisiting: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
Worth revisiting: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
March 2, 2024 at 9:27 PM
Reviewing old posts reminded me of Kate Beaton's Sexy Batman issue of Hark, A Vagrant, which is a very pleasant thing to return to on a Sunday morning.
Worth revisiting: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
Worth revisiting: www.harkavagrant.com/index.php?id...
What if Raymond Carver lived through the zombie apocalypse? What kind of stories would he write?
Eclectic Projects magazine is the place where I put all my weird story ideas. The stuff I’d never write to submit to a magazine editor, because there would be more “sensible” ideas to follow.
Eclectic Projects magazine is the place where I put all my weird story ideas. The stuff I’d never write to submit to a magazine editor, because there would be more “sensible” ideas to follow.
March 1, 2024 at 8:29 PM
What if Raymond Carver lived through the zombie apocalypse? What kind of stories would he write?
Eclectic Projects magazine is the place where I put all my weird story ideas. The stuff I’d never write to submit to a magazine editor, because there would be more “sensible” ideas to follow.
Eclectic Projects magazine is the place where I put all my weird story ideas. The stuff I’d never write to submit to a magazine editor, because there would be more “sensible” ideas to follow.
Hello form of social media I frequently forget! I mostly kick around doing weird little publishing experiments on my Patreon these days, and frequently forget to tell folks about it. The latest project is going an 80 page monthly collection of short fiction and non-fiction. Issue 6 is out Tuesday.
February 23, 2024 at 9:43 AM
Hello form of social media I frequently forget! I mostly kick around doing weird little publishing experiments on my Patreon these days, and frequently forget to tell folks about it. The latest project is going an 80 page monthly collection of short fiction and non-fiction. Issue 6 is out Tuesday.
Today my Patreon memebers will be getting another original story, "Beneath These Trees, The Dead," months in advance of its official release as part of an upcoming Eclectic projects issue. Story features: zombies! Angst! Making fun of Raymond Carver!
You in? www.patreon.com/PeterMBall
You in? www.patreon.com/PeterMBall
October 11, 2023 at 4:23 AM
Today my Patreon memebers will be getting another original story, "Beneath These Trees, The Dead," months in advance of its official release as part of an upcoming Eclectic projects issue. Story features: zombies! Angst! Making fun of Raymond Carver!
You in? www.patreon.com/PeterMBall
You in? www.patreon.com/PeterMBall
Crazy excited to be releasing Helen Marshall's non-fiction collection, TOMORROW'S LANGUAGE, through Brain Jar Press in October (Mostly because Helen Marshall is a mad genius whose non-fiction is somehow weirder and twistier than her fiction).
Pre-Orders: www.brainjarpress.com/product/tomo...
Pre-Orders: www.brainjarpress.com/product/tomo...
September 20, 2023 at 9:50 PM
Crazy excited to be releasing Helen Marshall's non-fiction collection, TOMORROW'S LANGUAGE, through Brain Jar Press in October (Mostly because Helen Marshall is a mad genius whose non-fiction is somehow weirder and twistier than her fiction).
Pre-Orders: www.brainjarpress.com/product/tomo...
Pre-Orders: www.brainjarpress.com/product/tomo...