Angela Slatter's Blog, page 105
June 16, 2014
And finally …
Papercut for The Juniper Tree
… Kathleen has sent me the last of the papercuts for Black-Winged Angels.
It makes me a little sad that these gorgeous things will no longer wing their way to me in the body of a random text message.
But hey! Soon they will all be
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June 15, 2014
Suspended in Dusk
The delightful Simon Dewar is editing the Suspended in Dusk anthology, which is out later this year from Books of the Dead Press. He’s currently running a series of author interviews on his blog; the one with me is here, and the others are here.
The table of contents:
Alan
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June 13, 2014
Excitement!
And my autographed copy of Alan Baxter’s Bound just arrived, hand-delivered by Kathleen Jennings.
And Kylie Chan and I said stuff.
The Danger of Warmth
Papercut for The Danger of Warmth
More loveliness from Kathleen for Black-Winged Angels, which is due out in August of this year from Ticonderoga Publications.
“The Danger of Warmth”is my version of The Snow Queen”.
I watch the young man sleeping soundly in my bed. He has broad shoulders, curly
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June 12, 2014
Bound by Alan Baxter
So, my mate Alan Baxter has a book out on 1 July 2014. Bound is an action-packed, kickass, pulpy urban fantasy with martial arts, evil demons (is there any other kind?), a troubled hero, a take-no-crap heroine, and a really really scary grimoire. Yeah, I’ve read, and it’s already getting some terrific
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June 11, 2014
Is me … and will be me for a while
If you could turn this into a wheel, that would be more appropriate.
*goes back to grindstone*
Snurched from somewhere in the internetz
June 10, 2014
The Spectral Book of Horror Stories
Very happy to announce that I’ve got a story in this inaugural volume from Spectral Press and edited by the redoubtable Mark Morris!
Look at that ToC!
ON THE TOUR – RAMSEY CAMPBELL
THE DOG’S HOME - ALISON LITTLEWOOD
FUNERAL RITES – HELEN MARSHALL
SLAPE – TOM FLETCHER
THE NIGHT DOCTOR – STEVE RASNIC TEM
DULL FIRE – GARY McMAHON
THE
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June 9, 2014
The Witch’s Scale – WiP
Hard at work on my Spectral Press novella, The Witch’s Scale, purely because the idea sprang forth fully formed the other week. It details an episode in the history of Patience Sykes (one of my favourite characters) in between the action of “Gallowberries” and “Sister, Sister” in Sourdough and Other Stories. Selke
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June 8, 2014
Metropolitan Magic – Part Four
Alchemy • Lucy Sussex
Three figures walked in single file in the evening heat haze besides the Euphrates River, heading homewards.
All women, shawled, hunched by the baskets on their backs. The last, youngest and smallest, was further slouched by the year-old baby riding on her hip.
As if the sun had blinked, now
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