THE CREATIVE CONDITION: COMING MARCH 2024
Ben’s long-awaited 2nd non-fiction book, The Creative Condition will be published in March 2024, following on from Champagne and Wax Crayons: Riding the Madness of the Creative Industries.
This decade’s worth of research comes together in an all-encompassing, powerful exploration of human creativity, a rallying cry to recognise the need for a greater understanding and embracing of creativity in these tumultuous times.
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The debut novelette
Forecourt
When a pimped-up Porsche screeches onto the service station forecourt where Sam Billingham works, the art student (and part-time petrol pump cashier) has no idea that its driver is about to change his life.
Sam soon realises that great ideas are born in the most likely circumstances when this wildcard customer inadvertently throws him a lifeline that could pull him out of creative mediocrity and launch a mind-bending ascent to the apex of the art world.
Forecourt - the ultimate lesson in life imitating art - is the debut novelette from 'the brilliantly warped mind' of Ben Tallon, a no-filter portrait of the 21st-century identity crisis... and a cautionary tale of just how dangerous ambition can be.
STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE #2:
THE COST OF LIVING
We don't even need to leave the house to feel it. The monster is outside, trying the handle, peering straight as we melt into the sofa. Even the house sounds agitated as it settles after dark. The ones we least suspected have done terrible things to innocent people and our most trusted, the lovely ones, who once shared our beds, have turned.
They're not reporting on the apocalypse, but it is in full effect. 'The event' is coming, and the unbearable tension squeezes our eyeballs so hard from the inside of our skulls that all we can do is smile.
Stories for the Apocalypse #2: The Cost of Living is a collection of visceral, dark fiction stories by Ben Tallon, about coping in the death throes of capitalism.
"Tallon tickles the grotesque underbelly of modern life." - Dan Kieran, author and former CEO of Unbound.
STORIES FOR THE APOCALYPSE is out now at just £1.99
Stories for the Apocalypse #1: Notes on the New Normal is out now. You can buy following the links to your preferred ebook store, or keep it independent and purchase the EPUB or PDF files of the book right here in the shop. Audiobook coming soon.
NEW FLASH FICTION!
BEN’S NEW STORY, NIGHT BOAT IS PUBLISHED IN THE SPRING 2022 ISSUE OF POPSHOT QUARTERLY
WHO KILLED THE SNITCH?
THE ELF IN THE DELPH: A NEW LTD EDITION ILLUSTRATED ZINE BY BEN TALLON, OUT NOW!
MEET DANNY ATHERTON. A WEREWOLF WITH A DIFFERENCE…
ben’s new story ‘A WOLF IN SPORTS CLOTHING’ is OUT NOW ON COMMA PRESS’ NEW HORROR COLLECTION: strange abrasions
YA MUM AND OTHER STORIES FROM THE BACKSTREETS OF BRITAIN
OUT NOW!
Ben’s latest book, described by book reviewer Candice Hensen as “A genre-bending, thoughtfully crafted storytelling experiment that invites readers into the mind of someone with whom you would want to share a night of bottomless pints” is out now. It is available in the shop in limited edition paperback form and also on e-book/audiobook from good retailers.
To see the book trailer, featuring exclusive guest dialogue from Happy Mondays frontman Shaun Ryder, head here!
THE CREATIVE CONDITION PODCAST.
BEN TALLON HOSTS CONVERSATIONS AROUND CREATIVITY WITH GUESTS FROM FAR AND WIDE.
CHAMPAGNE AND WAX CRAYONS
“THE BOOK THE CREATIVE INDUSTRY NEEDED”
Piers Roberts, Designersblock
GLASS COLLECTOR: GUEST READING BY RAY RICHARDSON
The first in a series of guest readings from YA MUM.
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