Angela Slatter's Blog, page 119

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Thanks, Sebastien Millon

What I’ve been working on

The last month has been spent writing the first draft of a novella, which has been variously called The Witches of Whitechapel and now The Witch’s Scale.

I finished tidying the first brain-vomit draft last night, so my plan now is to let it percolate in a bottom drawer for a few weeks
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Now this is …

Photo by Sue Wright @DrimzelRoad

… precisely the sort of marketing one needs.

Thanks, Sue Wright, for tweeting this happy-making image.

 

And the winner of Midnight and Moonshine competition is …

… the lovely Cordelia Harrison.

The delightful Russ of Ticonderoga will do his publisher thingy and send it on post-haste.

News: QWC / Hachette Deadline Extended

Relax for a bit, the QWC / Hachette Manuscript Development deadline has been extended to 12 July 2013.

DEADLINE EXTENDED for the QWC / Hachette Australia Manuscript Development Program

Racing to get your manuscript in? Relax, you have more time. The deadline for entries has been extended to Friday 12th July.

WHAT IS THE
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A Good Cause

Buy a Bale is designed to help out Australian farming families who’ve been hard hit by drought and other events.

If you can spare a couple of  bucks, or even some time, please go here and donate.

Schlocked!

Over at the latest issue of Schlock Magazine you can read my re-imagining of that fine old tale, “Bluebeard” – with magnificent, disturbing, confronting art by Nel Pace.

Go here!

Super Sekrit Project Revealed

Original art by Alan Lee

I seem to have been sitting on this one forever, but at last I can reveal that Mr Stephen Jones has taken “By the Weeping Gate” for his new anthology, Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and

The cover art is by Alan
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Sunday morning purchase: The Machine Who Was Also A Boy

I just bought a book I’ve been meaning to get a hold of since this year’s Conflux.

It’s this one, The Machine Who Was Also A Boy, by Tom Dullemond and Mike McCrae, and produced by punchy indie eMergent Publishing (most ably helmed by Jodi Cleghorn).

I imagine I’ll be passing
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The New Strange

Great article from Rick Kleffel over at the NPR Books site about “The New Strange” and Robert Aickman, specifically with regards to We Are for the Dark, the latest Aickman and Howard collection from Tartarus Press.

If you want a chilly comedown from summer’s heat, you can’t do much better than the
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