Angela Slatter's Blog, page 118

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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Spells for Coming Forth By Daylight

And so, I have started on the final story of the Bitterwood Bible collection, which is called “Spells for Coming Forth by Daylight” (which is a riff on the alternative title of the Egyptian Book of the Dead, Book of Coming Forth by Day). There’s always a degree of terror and
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Terrible As An Army with Banners

Library at Melk Abbey http://musicarchive.sdsmt.edu/travel/...

And so, I have almost finished the second last story in The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. Huzzah! A bit exciting. I’ve been really lucky with the last two stories I’ve written for the collection because I knew precisely what I wanted them
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Brisbane Writers Festival – WOOOOT!

BWF have released their program into the wild – go here!

It’s a fantastic feast of wordy and illustratory fun – something for everyone, from workshops and masterclasses, to panels and interviews, spoken word events to lectures.

I’ll be talking Fables and Folk tales with Kate Forsyth, James Bradley and the
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