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Presenting the HORATIO NELSON FICTION PRIZE At Black Balloon Publishing we champion the weird, the unwieldy, and the unclassifiable. We are battle-worn enemies of boredom and we're looking for books that defy the rules, bend reality, twist preconceptions, and imagine the unimaginable.   If you're our kind of writer, you're braver, and smarter, and strategically crazier than all the rest. You've already written a masterpiece without a manual and we want to read it; we want to go down the rabbit hole, into the vast nothingness of outer space, swim among the strange illuminating creatures deep in the ocean. And to that end, we're very pleased to announce the first ever Horatio Nelson Fiction Prize, an award for a previously-completed manuscript which comes with $5,000 and a Black Balloon Publishing book deal. The best part: there is no entry fee. Read More....