Angela Slatter's Blog, page 110

A surprise resulting in Snoopy Dancing

Here in the Tower of Doom a nice surprise just arrived: the ARCs for Black-Winged Angels.

And not just your standard old ARC, but hard covers no less! Purdy.

 

The Tallow-Wife: A new tale

Thanks, Degas

I’m working on a new Tallow-Wife story, this one is called “The Nightingale and the Rose: A Call and Response“.

The girl’s voice is divine; it rises higher and higher as if trying to reach the heavens, which might have been appropriate in a less profane setting. One by
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Interview with the Princess: Alethea Kontis

New York Times Bestselling author Alethea Kontis was kind enough to answer some questions for me amidst the hurly-burly of her mad schedule. She is the author of the acclaimed Woodcutter Series (Enchanted, Hero, Dearest), the short story collection Wild and Wishful, Dark and Dreaming, the AlphaOops! Series, and
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Black-Winged Angels

I’m so pleased to announce that Black-Winged Angels will be released as a limited hard cover edition by Ticonderoga Publications in August this year!

This was the collection I wrote for my MA, and it’s only ever been available as an ebook until now. With an Introduction by Juliet Marillier and gorgeous
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Website redevelopment

Hi there.

We’re (i.e. moi and the IT Support Badger) are currently redeveloping this site.

So, for a few days things are going to look a little strange. Please bear with us. We’re hoping the experience will be worth it!

Thanks.

Angela

The Aternative Typewriter, with extra stuff!

This week Harry has dissected not one, not two, but three Girl with No Hands stories! His patience is impressive!  He looks at “Frozen”, “Words”, and “The Dead Ones Don’t Hurt You”.

I’m deviating from the one-story-per-review format as I come upon stories, which departure from the fairy tale mold as they
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Review of Australian Fiction

Today is a good day! The latest issue of The Review of Australian Fiction is out.

It contains Linda Brucesmith’s elegant and haunting “Pale Street” – she is an up and coming author and she is very, very good.

It also contains my story “St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls”, which is part
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I love you, Random Alex

The lovely Alex of Randomly Yours, Alex has posted a most wonderful review of Midnight and Moonshine. And it made me cry, just a little, coz I’ve felt that our gorgeous book, over which Lisa and I lavished such love and attention and effort, had sort of, well, disappeared into the
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The Alternative Typewriter dissects “The Chrysanthemum Bride”

Haralambi Markov looks at my story “The Chrysanthemum Bride”, which first appeared at Fantasy Magazine in 2009.

A snippet:

“The Chrysanthemum Bride” gives Slatter the necessary setting and platform to examine the unsavory fates allotted to women who embody the traditional female virtues – beauty, grace, poise and submission
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Letters to Lovecraft: A billet-doux from Stone Skin Press

Stone Skin Press have announced a new anthology – and a teasing tantalising portion of the ToC – Letters to Lovecraft.

The stories all take Old Sad Face’s seminal essay “Supernatural Horror in Literature” as their starting point. ‘The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest
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