Angela Slatter's Blog, page 108
April 7, 2014
Project Help Harry
The most delightful Harry Markov has been accepted to Clarion. He’s the first Bulgarian to join the Borg Collective, and he needs some help to get him to the US.
Harry is a very talented emerging writer and Clarion will help him develop further. If you’ve got a few spare shekels and want
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April 4, 2014
FAR VOYAGER POSTSCRIPTS #32/33
Artwork by Pete Von Sholly’s “Troop Inspection” f
Huzzah! At last it’s happening! FAR VOYAGER POSTSCRIPTS #32/33 from PS Publishing is on its way. The ToC is awesome, and I’m really pleased by how many Aussies made it into this issue: moi, Lisa Hannett, Alan Baxter,
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April 2, 2014
New work: The October Widow
Edwin Austin Abbey’s “Young Woman in the Woods”
So, my first new words after the break are on a short horror story called “The October Widow”.
The October Widow knew herself hunted, though she’d caught no trace of whoever pursued her.
She was careful when she
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Dimension6: Richard Harland
And tomorrow Dimension6 launches and can be found here. Today’s interview is with legendary Steampunk author Richard Harland, whose tale in D6 is “Ryder”.
1. What was the inspiration for your Dimension 6 story?
“Ryder” travelled a long, long journey before it reached its final published form. It started with
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April 1, 2014
Dimension6: Charlotte Nash
Newcomer Charlotte Nash already has a load of experience under her belt in the area of rural fiction and now she’s set to make a name for herself in spec-fic as well. You can read more of her speculative works here.
Below, Charlotte answers some questions about her D6
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March 31, 2014
Uber-special Fearie Tales!
I’m so excited about this: PS Publishing have their very special limited edition of Fearie Tales available for pre-order. It looks absolutely gorgeous. Check it out at PS or Subterranean.
200 copies only, hard cover, sexy traycase, signed by all contributors.
Contents
Introduction: Don’t Scare the Children — Stephen Jones
Find My
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Dimension6: Jason Nahrung
Photo by Kirstyn McDermott
Awesome Aussie writing stalward and First Man of the Dark, Jason Nahrung is one of the inaugural D6 authors, with his tale “The Preservation Society”. His bio reads thusly: Jason Nahrung grew up on a Queensland cattle property and now lives in Ballarat with his
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March 30, 2014
Welcome to Dimension6
Dimension6 is the new baby from Keith Stevenson’s Coeur De Lion Publishing and will launch on April 4.
The inaugural table of contents will feature stories by Charlotte Nash, Jason Nahrung and Richard Harland, and I’m running interviews with each of the authors this week.
Today, publisher and editor Keith Stevenson answers
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Reading Time
As I finally finished my last edits to Vigil on Thursday night and sent the damned book off to an agent, I’m taking a well-earned rest. Obviously, my brain is totally empty.
So I am refilling it by binge reading. I just finished John Connolly’s The Wolf in Winter, which keeps the quality
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March 27, 2014
A Book of Horrors – in Russian!
Well, as the header says, here it is!
Very exciting. My work’s now been translated into Czech, Romanian, Japanese and Russian.
A very vintage kind of Crypt Keeper illustration!
