Angela Slatter's Blog, page 114
October 16, 2013
Also, art happened
What I look like now if you’re looking for me at WFC.
What I would look like if I was an awesome kind of Norse Brunhilde, with sword and shield.
My dear sister was kind enough to dye my hair and hide all the
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Genre Con Oz 2013 – Where Stuff Didst Happenst
So, from Friday 11 Oct through to Sunday 13 Oct, I was embedded in Genre Con Oz at SLQ … in the manner of an especially happy tick in the neck of a particularly juicy bullock.
My photo of Lisa
My photo of Lisa’s
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October 15, 2013
Fearie Tales beginnings
First paragraphs of the Fearie Tales stories from Masters Ramsey Campbell, Neil Gaiman, Robert Shearman, and Markus Heitz.
Ramsey Campbell: Find My Name
DOREEN WAS AWAKE at once and trying to hear why. A dog barked on the far side of the tennis courts, and another yapped from the direction of the golf
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October 13, 2013
Joanne Harris: The Silken People
Snurched from The Guardian
The lovely Joanne Harris talks about The Pied Piper, how horror lurks in the shadows of fairy stories, and the language of the subconscious.
ONCE THERE WAS a little girl, who lived in a village by a wood. She was very curious and always
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October 10, 2013
Peter Crowther: The Artemis Line
On Fearie Tales duty today is the lovely Mr Peter Crowther. He talks about fairy traps, ‘The Musician of Bremen’, and goblins stealing babies. Huzzah!
‘A certain mother had her child taken out of its cradle
by the elves, and a changeling with a large head and
staring eyes, which would do
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October 7, 2013
The Dark, Issue 1: reviewed
October 6, 2013
Reggie Oliver: The Silken Drum
The delightful and erudite Mr Reggie Oliver talks about Fearie Tales, Christina Rossetti’s “Goblin Market”, doppelgangers, and spiritual possession.
Fly, fiend! Over the Western SeaFollowed by cries of hate from the Afterworld
—Aya no Tsuzumi, The Silken Drum,Japanese No Play, origin and author unknown.
‘SHE’S JAPANESE,’ SAID Karen from the estate agents. I noticed
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October 4, 2013
Adelaide Launch: Everything is a Graveyard
If you’re in Adelaide and at a loose end tomorrow afternoon, might I suggest heading along to the launch of Jason Fischer’s new collection Everything Is A Graveyard?
October 3, 2013
Brian Lumley: The Changeling
Brian Lumley talks Jack and the Beanstalk, the triumph of Good, and the sea.
THE SUN WAS beginning to set as I finned lazily into the shallows, thrust my speargun before me and laid it to rest in six inches of still water, then turned over and sat facing the
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September 29, 2013
Launching: The Cobbler Mage
Art by Rebekah Pearson
My lovely and talented friend Angie Rega is launching her first book this Saturday, 5 October 2013, at 5.30pm.
The Cobbler Mage will have champagne poured all over it at the gorgeous Alice & Co at 159 Brunswick St, Fitzroy in Melbourne.
Please RSVP to christine@littlefoxpublishing.com
