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November 8, 2013
Over at Revista De Suspans
… the delightful Mihai Adascalitei interviews me.
Also, “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” has been translated into Romanian!
November 7, 2013
It’s official
And so it’s official, the lovely Tartarus Press will be publishing The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings!
With art by Kathleen Jennings!
Some time in 2014! Huzzah!
This book is intended as a prequel to Sourdough and Other Stories. It was meant to be a sequel, but the stories were determined to defy me
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Books arriving whilst I was away
Just some of the books that arrived whilst I was away at WFC:
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales, edited by Paula Guran (Prime), has entered the world rather quietly but is gorgeous and loudly lovely. Stories by Tanith Lee, Theodora Goss, Kaaron Warren, Caitlin R. Kiernan, Jane Yolen, Nathan Ballingrud,
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November 6, 2013
WFC: The Cabinet of Dr Probert
So, to start – a more fulsome World Fantasy post will be forthcoming – but as an appetiser, I present my performance in Dr Probert’s Cabinet!
October 24, 2013
Jo Fletcher: Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
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Our lovely publisher Jo Fletcher of Jo Fletcher Books has the place of honour for the final Fearie Tales post – we launch the book on 2 November at WFC! – and she talks here about “The Snow Queen”, “Aschenputtel”, what happens when Alan Lee says he’ll illustrate your anthology, and why
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October 23, 2013
Singapore
Am in Singapore, preparing to head off on a plane again.
Today is the 13hr trek to the UK.
Where is my matter transporter!!??
October 21, 2013
Books Written by Mad Ancestors: KJ Bishop
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The wonderful and surreal writing of KJ Bishop has brought us, among other things, the World Fantasy finalist The Etched City and the Aurealis Award winning That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote, as well as short stories in venues such as The New Weird, Last Drink
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October 20, 2013
S P Miskowski’s Knock Knock and the Skillute Cycle
SP Miskowski is one of the finer voices in modern horror fiction. Her work is tense, beautifully paced, and deeply, deeply perceptive as to the human condition and all its foibles, faults and perfections. She was kind enough to answer a few questions for me about her debut novel, Knock Knock,
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John Ajvide Lindqvist: Come Unto Me
Today’s Fearie Tales post is from the astonishingly talented Mr John Ajvide Lindqvist, talking about trolls, changelings, doppelganger, and the dead returning to the living
FOR THE SECOND time in less than a month, Annika was walking up the aisle of the church with Robert. This time they didn’t continue as far
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October 17, 2013
Angela Slatter: By the Weeping Gate
And today I, errr, interview myself about my Fearie Tales story, “By the Weeping Gate”.
SEE, HERE?
This house here in Breakwater, this one, by the Weeping Gate where men and women come to wait and weep for those lost to the sea. This house is very fine, given the notoriety of the
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