Eclectic Projects 003:: Eclectic Projects, #3

By Peter M. Ball

he third issue of Eclectic Projects features four original short stories and more from Aurealis and Ditmar award-winning author Peter M. Ball. Dive into this issue to find:

• A glimpse into the secrets held by six cats who gather around a magical campfire in Six Cats Go Camping.
• A dedicated cosplayer who finds new purpose when alien's invade in The Chap Who Wanted To Be Captain Flagg.
• A mad scientist with dangerous ideas and the cowboy sent to stop him in One Last Job, Then Sleep.
• The existential crisis felt by those at the heart of the zomie apocalypse in Our Survival and Other Mysteries.
• Professional thief Tallulah Wyndham-Pryce looks for answers in a den of inequity in part three of The Shackleton Job serial, Showdown At The Black Cherry.

Issue 3 also features advice on managing writing the complex web of obligations that plague aspiring or part-time writers (equally useful if you're a non-writer with too much on) in Working Around the Ampersands: Tips for Managing Complex and Conflicting Priorities.

Long regarded as one of Australia's weirder speculative fiction authors, Peter M. Ball now brings you original fiction each month in his own magazine, Eclectic Projects. Peter is also the author of the novellas Horn, Bleed, Exile, Frost, and Crusade, and his prior short fiction has been collected in The Birdcage Heart & Other Strange Tales, Not Quite The End Of The World Just Yet, and These Strange & Magic Things. He's the brain in charge at Brain Jar Press and lives in Brisbane with his spouse and a very demanding cat.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Eclectic Projects
• Release date: Apr 1, 2023
• ISBN: 9781922479518

Peter M. Ball

Peter M Ball is the author of more than fifty short stories and six novellas, along with essays, RPG material, articles, and poetry. His short stories and non-fiction have appeared in venues such as Clarkesworld, Strange Horizons, Shimmer, Dragon Magazine, Writing Queensland, and Apex Magazine, and has been included in several Year’s Best anthologies. He’s previously taught creative writing at Griffith University and the Queensland Writers Centre, spent five years as the manager of the Australian Writers Marketplace, and convenes the biennial GenreCon writing conference in Brisbane, Australia.

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