Champagne and Socks

No craft photo for yesterday. I did things like final dentist appointment for the year (hooray! – dentist asked me what award I won and then I think he tried to pitched me a novel!) and check my post box, visit my parents and then do a bit of work before reading before bed.

However, in the last couple of days, Amanda finished up this beautiful book and sent it the printers:

I’m very proud of this, the fourth volume in the Twelve Planets series. It’s Deborah Biancotti taking the next step on from A Book of Endings. And it’s so exciting to be able to watch a writer grow and evolve and move. Bad Power is five (she cheated a bit there but you’ll see why I let that extra story slide, you WANT it in there, I promise!) interwoven stories, five different perspectives, five different superpowers that aren’t all that awesome, really.

Here’s the back cover blurb. In the next couple of days I’ll post bits Deborah wrote for promo on each of the stories.

Hate superheroes?
Yeah. They probably hate you, too.

‘There are two kinds of people with lawyers on
tap, Mr Grey. The powerful and the corrupt.’
‘Thank you.’
‘For implying you’re powerful?’
‘For imagining those are two different groups.’

From Crawford Award nominee Deborah Biancotti
comes this sinister short story suite, a pocketbook
police procedural, set in a world where the victories are
only relative, and the defeats are absolute. Bad Power
celebrates the worst kind of powers both supernatural
and otherwise, in the interlinked tales of five people —
and how far they’ll go.

If you like Haven and Heroes, you’ll love Bad Power.
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‘These appetisingly wicked stories give you
the perfect taste of Biancotti’s talents.’
– Ann VanderMeer

Gwyneth Jones on the Twelve Planets series:
‘These Australians give me hope for the future
of female, and even feminist, writers in sf.’

And to celebrate the release of Bad Power:

November Special – Buy Bad Power or Twelve Planets Subscription and get A Book of Endings for – $15.00