Angela Slatter's Blog, page 117

Story Sale

Aubrey Beardsley’s Salome

Yesterday I sold a story to new online magazine, The Dark.

Editor Jack Fisher bought “By My Voice I Shall Be Known” (which is part of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings collection, but you can get a sneak peak via The Dark).

Huzzah!

If I still had a voice,
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Lightspeed Magazine

Issue 39 of Lightspeed is now available here. It contains all sorts of goodies, including a reprint of my story “Brisneyland by Night.”

Your day, with extra badgers

Some more Bitterwood drawings from Kathleen Jennings – badgers for “The Badger Bride”.

Because Kathleen Jennings is awesome …

… she’s scribbling illustrations for The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings as she beta reads the books. I love these!!

Support the Queensland Literary Awards

So, know a millionaire with too much money and not enough to do with it except start her/his own political party?

How about directing them here and suggesting they do something worthwhile for Queensland and support literature … y’know, invest in future literacy, broadmindedness, thought, philosophy, non-reality tv-based entertainment? Stuff.

Just
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Last call for GenreCon Volunteers

The lovely folk at GenreCon have put out a last call for volunteers, Brisneyland people.

Go on, you know you want to. It’s good for your karma – also, there may be cookies.

Go here for the details.

Writing Rural Fiction

Okay, so lovely Rural Fiction author Fleur McDonald is coming to town, i.e. Brisneyland.

She’s teaching for QWC on Sunday 11 August. Love and Landscapes: Writing Rural Romance will show you how to construct your story scene by scene. Book here.

And she’s also at the Ekka on Thursday 8
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And so, yesterday …

… I finished The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. *falls over*

I gave the last story, “Spells for Coming Forth By Daylight”, a polish and sent the collection off to my beta readers for comment and general flensing.

Now my brain is particularly empty. I am refilling at the moment with reading, critiquing
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And in other news …

Lisa L. Hannett and I have joined the Twelve Planets series over at Twelfth Planet Press, as per Alisa’s announcement today. We’re absolutely delighted to be in such good company.

Twelve Plants Welcomes Lisa Hannett and Angela SlatterAug 05, 2013

It’s with mixed emotions that we announce there will be a
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Choose Your Own Adventure!

And so, in my spare time (HA!) I have agreed to be involved in the delightful Emily Craven’s Choose Your Own Adventure project – if you know anything about my schedule, you will be impressed by Emily’s powers of persuasion. Em’s brief is below – if you’ve got a few spare
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