Purchasing books

Posted on 26 October 2012 by admin

You can purchase these books using the Paypal “Add to Cart” buttons under the cover photos, or direct from the publisher via bank deposit or cheque (send your order and preferred payment method by E-mailing us here). Paperback price includes free postage within Australia.

Peggy Bright Books is only open to submissions by invitation at this stage.

When buying from our website, please note that it may take several days for your payment to clear, and that e-books are sent as an attachment by email to purchasers. Should you prefer instant reading gratification, all our titles are also available (in epub and mobi formats) through Wizard’s Tower Books, and (in mobi format) through the Kindle Store on Amazon.

If you live outside Australia, and you want physical copies of books mailed to you, please contact us (editor@peggybrightbooks.com) with your address so we can calculate extra postage costs. Thank you.

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Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear ***FREE*** Sampler

Posted on 7 April 2013 by admin

Want to see what all the fuss is about for our Ditmar nominated anthology, Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear? Download our free sampler for a taste of all the great stories this anthology contains.

ePub
mobi (Kindle)
PDF

CONGRATULATIONS to Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear author, Sean McMullen, whose story, Hard Cases, has been turned into a film.

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Breaking News

Posted on 6 April 2013 by admin

Ever wanted to see your name as a character in a book? Our next project, The Back of the Back of Beyond by Edwina Harvey, is giving you that opportunity!

Edwina is rewriting and expanding the universe in which she set her short stories, “No Pets Allowed” (Out of the Ashes #1), “Get Me to The Worldcon on Time” (Fables and Reflections), “My Sweet 286” (AustrALIEN Absurdities) and “Party” (Antipodean SF #1), and is looking for a plethora of character extras.

For full details see flyer (PDF), also available in DOC and ODT formats.

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Flight 404 / The Hunt for Red Leicester

Posted on 27 October 2012 by admin

Cover of Flight 404Flight 404: The search for the missing passenger vessel, the Bougainvillaea, brings inverstigator Charmain Mertz back to the conservative world of her boyhood.

The Hunt for Red Leicester: Space elevator employee and reluctant detective Gordon Mamon must solve a cheesemaker’s murder.

Review:
“Flight 404 is a serious and compelling tale … I was captive to the mystery and the story right until the end. More in this vein Mr Petrie please.”
“I loved [The Hunt for Red Leicester]. A perfect counterbalance to the heavier tale told in Flight 404.”
—Sean Wright, ‘Sean the Bookonaut’ website

Available as back-to-back novellas in one paperback (ISBN 9780980699838), $12.95 RRP including free postage in Australia.*

Cover of The Hunt for Red Leicester

In electronic format (pdf, epub, mobi), Flight 404 is offered standalone (ISBN 9780980699845, $2.50 RRP), while The Hunt for Red Leicester is featured in The Gordon Mamon Casebook (ISBN 9780980699852, $2.50 RRP).

Paperback $12.95

Flight 404 Ebook $2.50

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The Gordon Mamon Casebook Ebook $2.50

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* For paperback copies to be sent to addresses outside Australia, please contact editor@peggybrightbooks.com with your address so we can calculate postage costs.

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Light Touch Paper – Stand Clear

Posted on 27 October 2012 by admin

Cover of Light Touch Paper

Light Touch Paper – Stand Clear
Matchless prose to fire your imagination! Offering 13 wonderous works of fiction from Joanne Anderton, Adam Browne, Sue Bursztynski, Brenda Cooper, Katherine Cummings, Thoraiya Dyer, Kathleen Jennings, Dave Luckett, Ian McHugh, Sean McMullen, Ripley Patton, Rob Porteous and Anna Tambour.

Print version: $24.95 (includes free postage in Australia)

e-book (epub, mobi and PDF) $4.95
(Review e-copies available on request)

Reviews
“In all, Light Touch Paper Stand Clear definitely has a good strike rate of stories … This collection is a fine example of what a very loosely themed anthology can look like. Recommended.”
— Tehani Wessely, ASIF website.

“A diverse collection with something for everyone means that it may not be seen as outstanding by any particular readership. My impression is that it holds its own … it is a collection you could revisit and find joy in, depending on changing mood or taste. There’s not a piece that I think is padding in other words.”
—Sean Wright, ‘Sean the Bookonaut’ website

“… this baker’s dozen has got plenty of substance to its dough and the stories are all readily digestible.”
—Rod MacDonald, ‘SF Crowsnest’ website

“An eclectic collection containing stories from a variety of Australian and international authors, Light Touch Paper, Stand Clear is an engaging body of work that contains a number of excellent stories, quite a few memorable ones, and should have something to suit almost anyone.”
—Michelle Goldsmith, ‘Vilutheril Reviews’ website

“If anybody you know gets going about the dearth of quality Australian spec-fic being published at home, you needn’t counter with words; just point them toward this smashing collection of shorts … Read this. That is all.”
—Lachlan Huddy, ‘Aurealis XPress’ newsletter

Paperback $24.95

 Ebook $4.95

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For paperback copies to be sent to addresses outside Australia, please contact editor@peggybrightbooks.com with your address so we can calculate postage costs.

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Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables

Posted on 27 October 2012 by admin

Rare Unsigned Copy: Tales of Rocketry, Ineptitude, and Giant Mutant Vegetables is a collection of short (and mostly warped) SF and fantasy stories from Simon Petrie, including several previously-unpublished gems. Touching on such important, diverse, and hitherto-ignored topics as the sex life of mythical reptiles, the anachronistic hazardousness of the humble ham sandwich, and the application of radiation-induced gigantism to market gardening, Petrie’s work is a direct challenge to the dictum that truth is stranger than fiction.

If you’ve ever wondered about what to do about that inexplicable triceratops in your backyard, about what happened next in that classic match-up between Hare and Tortoise, or about the absolute very worst thing you can have happen to you while you’re ransacking that idyllic alien planet, then you need to read Rare Unsigned Copy.

It’s not all off-planet, off-the-wall, or off-colour. Some of the stories in Rare Unsigned Copy are speculation pure and simple, played with a straight bat. But for the most part, the stories dwell on life’s unexpected absurdities, like dealing with that artificial intelligence that either wants you, or wants you off its ship, or wants to hold onto that last unique item in its carefully-organised inventory. Even if said item might well be a life-saver.

Still not convinced? Try a snippet: Click here to read an excerpt.

Rare Unsigned Copy. Paperback: 260 pages; $26.95 (postage extra). Ebook available in ePub, Mobi, or PDF; $2.95.

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For paperback copies to be sent to addresses outside Australia, please contact editor@peggybrightbooks.com with your address so we can calculate postage costs.

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The Whale’s Tale

Posted on 27 October 2012 by admin

The Whale’s Tale is an exciting new young adult science fiction novel by Edwina Harvey. In a future where whales and dolphins can communicate with humans, and where the Whale Nation has brought space travel back from the brink of extinction, humpback whales tour the galaxy in massive spaceships called “The Whaling Fleet” performing Whalesong to receptive audiences. Uki is a teenage Japanese girl who steals a file from a whale to impress a guy in her gang, but she gets caught, and has to perform restitution to Targe, the humpback whale she’s stolen the file from, by touring the galaxy with Targe and his dolphin sidekick, Charlie. Uki doesn’t like Targe, Targe doesn’t like Uki, and Charlie thinks he’s in for the worst tour of his life until they discover Uki has a special talent.

For an excerpt from the book, go here.

“Wow! What a whale of a tale!” - Sheila Tracy

For a review of the book by June Young in New Zealand, go here.

For a review of the book by Jonathan Dean, go here.

Released November, 2009
ISBN: 9780980699807
RRP: $19.95 (paperback). Ebook available in ePub, Mobi, or PDF: $2.95.

You can purchase this book:

(a) Using the Paypal “Add to Cart” buttons below.

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(b) Direct from the publisher via bank deposit or cheque for $19.95 (including free postage within Australia). Send your order and preferred payment method by E-mailing us here.

For paperback copies to be sent to addresses outside Australia, please contact editor@peggybrightbooks.com with your address so we can calculate postage costs.

(c) or from the following booksellers:

Click here to read an excerpt from The Whale’s Tale.

Click here to learn about Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine.

Edwina Harvey is a self-confessed “whale and dolphin geek” who has been writing, especially science fiction, for most of her life. The Whale’s Tale evolved from her short story, Restitution, which was placed equal third in the 1997 Mary Grant Bruce awards for children’s literature.

Click here to read more about Edwina Harvey

Edwina’s other work has been short listed in the George Turner Prize, the Emma Darcy Awards, and has been published in a variety of anthologies and magazines as diverse as Aurealis, Thrillogies and Grass Roots. She also edits for Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine

Edwina has blogged at Wired 4 Teens. You can read more about The Whale’s Tale athttp://teens.mosmanlibraryblogs.com/article/263/edwina-harvey-guest-blogs-on-the-whale-s-tale.

Click here to go to Wired 4 Teens.

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