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What I Learned About Author Platform By Spring-Cleaning My Blog

I’ve spent a significant part of the last twenty-four hours doing a spring-clean of petermball.com, going through a bunch of old posts and cleaning up broken links, adding tags that didn’t previously exist, and generally cleaning up some of the clutter in the category section to make it easier to find old content.

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	Horn 3.7 of 5 stars 3.70 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bleed 3.71 of 5 stars 3.71 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine, Issue 16 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Year's Best SF 15 by David G. Hartwell (Editor, Contributor), Kathryn Cramer (Goodreads Author) (Editor, Contributor), Vandana Singh (Contributor) 3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 2010 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Year's Best Science Fiction: Twenty-Ninth Annual Collection by Gardner R. Dozois (Editor), Paul J. McAuley (Contributor), Carolyn Ives Gilman (Contributor) 3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 91 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Descended from Darkness: Apex Magazine Vol. I by Jason Sizemore (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Gill Ainsworth (Editor), Lavie Tidhar (Contributor) 4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 16 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Weird Tales #357 by Caitlín R. Kiernan, Karen Heuler (Goodreads Author), J. Robert Lennon (Goodreads Author) 4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Book of Apex: Volume 3 by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author) (Editor), Heather McDougal (Goodreads Author), Kathryn Weaver 4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shimmer 11: The Clockwork Jungle Book by Jay Lake (Goodreads Author), Blake Hutchins, Jess Nevins 5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Apex Magazine - September 2010 (Issue 16) by Catherynne M. Valente (Goodreads Author), Peter M. Ball (Goodreads Author), An Owomoyela 0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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We Are Not the Same Anymore

by Chris Somerville

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At the Mouth of the River of Bees: Stories

by Kij Johnson

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The New York Trilogy

by Paul Auster

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Peter Ball is currently reading We Are Not the Same Anymore by Chris Somerville	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball rated a book 5 of 5 stars An Iron Rose by Peter Temple read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball rated a book 4 of 5 stars Appeal Denied (Cliff Hardy, #31) by Peter Corris read in May, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball rated a book 4 of 5 stars No Place to Be a Cop by Frederick Nolan read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball added The Bible Repairman and Other Stories by Tim Powers read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball rated a book 4 of 5 stars Laid Bare (Brown Siblings, #1) by Lauren Dane read in April, 2013	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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Peter Ball is currently reading The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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