Quark SoupBooks by Magdalena Ball
Here are links to each of Magdalena Ball's major published works
BeWrite Books
Paperback: 296 pages, ISBN-10: 1904492967, ISBN-13: 978-1904492962
Marianne is teetering at the edge of reason. A death in the family sends her brilliant academic career and promising future spiraling out of control until resentment towards those who shaped her past leads her on a wild and desperate search for the truth about herself. On the seedy side of New York, she meets Miles, a hip musician busking the streets and playing low-rent venues in a muddled bid to make his own dreams come true. In her new life, she finds anarchic squalor, home grown music and poetry, booze, drugs, sex, violence, love, loss … and, above all, exhilarating freedom on her troubled journey from sleep to awakening. This gritty, relentless story unfolds with the same cool detachment that motivates the central character to peel back the layers of her life and expose the painful scalding within.
This is a beautifully written novel. While the subject matter is dark and unflinching (namely grief, depression and drug addiction) Magdalena Ball's prose is always smooth and lyrical. Her characters are well drawn and memorable, set against a series of contrasting backdrops - suburban America; high school; the wild freedom of the coast and the seedy underside of New York life lurking just beneath the cosmopolitan coffee-bar surface. A joy to read.
J Moore, Writelink.co.ukPicaro Press, ISBN 1-920957-23-5
Quark Soup contains twenty eight poems which muse on topics like what it means to be human, love, loss, fear, longing, and transcendence. Avoiding cliché and the mundane, the poetry in this collection is accessible to the common reader, with a powerful intellectual edge and playful wit. As all good poetry should, this work uses sound, sense, and strong imagery to deal with everyday topics like depression, birth, growing old, love and death, all moving towards a large universal picture. As the title suggests, there is a strong astrophysical theme running through the poems. Most of the poetry in this collection has been published individually, in well known literary journals, as well as online in a number of respected international venues. The appeal of this work is broad, and aimed towards a wide market of both sophisticated poetry readers, and those who feel that poetry is too highbrow or inaccessible for their tastes. "An exquisite infinity of poetic stars." Geoff Nelder, author of Escaping Reality
The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything
Mountain Mist Productions, ISBN 1-920913-10-6
The Art of Assessment is a complete guide to the review process, from how to write good reviews, how to use interviews to add depth to your reviews, obtaining review copies, marketing your reviews, and plenty of examples and references to help you become a working reviewer. Everything for sale is open to review, and reviews are in hot demand. The combination of free review material, and the opportunity to get paid for your opinions has made reviewing a very sought after career option. However it isn't as easy to write a good review as it looks. The Art of Assessment: How to Review Anything addresses this market niche. "If you are serious about wanting to be a good reviewer this is one book you will be happy to read." Kim Draper, Book Review Club
Here are links to compilations, which Magdalena Ball has had involvement
Unconventional Love Poetry by Magdalena Ball and Carolyn Howard-Johnson
with original artwork by Vicki Thomas
Cherished Pulse contains twenty poems which look at love from a wise, mature, sensitive perspective. Never sentimental (forget Hallmark), the poems explore love in its many guises -- cherish, longing, sensuality, and that sacred place between desire and consumation. For less than the cost of a single card, Cherished Pulse makes the perfect Valentine's Day or Anniversary gift for someone. This e-book can be sent and read online, or, printed (it's set up in landscape, two pages per page for easy and professional looking center stapling). Pair the book with a rose, and you've got the ideal gift for anyone you love.
World Audience, Inc.
ISBN 978-1934209349
The audience Review features reviews of plays on Broadway, off-Broadway, off-off Broadway, and regional theater, as well as reviews of literature and poetry, and other informative critiques. The audience Review also contains author interviews and essays, and the occasional play or short story. The goal of the critics who write for The audience Review is to find broad themes in their subject.
Hunter Writers Centre
Edited by Brian Joyce
A book of short stories and recipes
derived from the Global Delights project initiated by the Ethnic
Communities Council in conjunction with the Hunter Writers Centre to
celebrate the cultural diversity of Newcastle.
Catchfire Press
ISBN: 0 9757926 1 X
Full of warmth, laughter, sadness and hope, Stories for a Long summer is a book that celebrates the stories and poems that Australian summers birth. In it we have compiled a collection of writings that give the reader a place to escape from the summer heat.
Catchfire Press
ISBN: 0 9757926 0 1
Full of warmth, laughter, sadness and hope, Stories for a Long summer is a book that celebrates the stories and poems that Australian summers birth. In it we have compiled a collection of writings that give the reader a place to escape from the summer heat.
Red Engine Press
ISBN: 9780974375892
Writers, illustrators, publishers and marketers
share tidbits of wisdom, humor and tips. Pages lined on one side and blank on
the other for you to take notes, draw or whatever your heart desires.
Photographs are watermarked throughout the book.
