Angela Slatter's Blog, page 111
February 6, 2014
Area X Marks the Spot: Welcome to the Southern Reach
Annihilation, the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy and Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel in four years, is in barnstorming mode to say the least. You can purchase it here (you know you want to).
The story so far:
Annihilation is set in a remote coastal place called Area X,
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February 5, 2014
New words for the Tallow-Wife collection
Rossetti’s Jane Morris looks about right
Now that I’ve sent the last story for our collection back to Lisa, I can return to The Tallow-Wife stories.
I have one scene left to write for “What Shines Brightest Burns Most Fiercely”. Here are some new words for it:
He hitches
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Bookshelf Consolidation
My bookshelves are in a bit of disarray at the moment, still having not been sorted out two and a half years after I moved in with the Tech Support Badger. So I took some time this morning to do one important (to me) thing. I consolidated all the books I’ve
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February 2, 2014
That feeling …
… the day after you’ve spent five full days editing a novel you’ve been working on for a very long time … and you let it go off to the Alpha Reader … and you are certain that you should probably go and start looking at the job adverts … that
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January 31, 2014
Editing, editing, editing
Exhibit A
I’m editing Vigil, I’m in the homestretch (well, in as much as any novel has a homestretch – when I finish with it it goes to my Alpha Reader, Lisa, then comes back to me to fix). On Wednesday, I started in an organised, dignified fashion (see Exhibit A) on
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Happiness in the mail
It’s always a happy day when books arrive at The Bones Remember Everything. It’s an even happier day when the books are from Tartarus Press. But when it’s Tartarus Press books in which I have a story?
Ticker tape parade, snoopy dancing, balloons, party pop and fairy bread.
So in between marking up
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Harry Markov on Red Skein
“Red Riding Hood” photography by Rebeca Saray
Over at his Alternative Typewriter, Haralambi Markov takes his scalpel to “Red Skein”, my version of Little Red Riding Hood from The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales.
“Little Red Riding Hood has marked my childhood since an early
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January 27, 2014
New words
Today was supposed to be editing day, but new words are pushing their way out.
I know better than to fight.
“There are bones buried beneath, he can feel it; unhappy, exhausted bones, used long beyond their intended years. But not even a pale shade can shuffle through the stones, up into the
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Magic City: Recent Spells edited by Paula Guran
New anthology from Prime!
Magic City: Recent Spells has a cracking ToC.
“Paranormal Romance,” Christopher Barzak “The Slaughtered Lamb,” Elizabeth Bear “The Land of Heart’s Desire,” Holly Black “Seeing Eye,” Patricia Briggs “De la Tierra,” Emma Bull “Curses,” Jim Butcher “Dog Boys,” Charles de Lint “Snake Charmer,” Amanda Downum “Street Wizard,”
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January 21, 2014
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter, now in Polish
And, yes, “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” has been translated into Polish and is available for reading online (if you read Polish, naturally) over here at Poltergeist Magazine.
Originally appearing in A Book of Horrors, this story is also now the first story in my new collection The Bitterwood Bible and Other
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