Angela Slatter's Blog, page 120
June 24, 2013
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.
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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!
June 22, 2013
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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June 20, 2013
Where are my peeled grapes and bathtubs of champagne??
Which is a weird way of saying that last night I did a workshop at Indooroopilly Library and got pretty much the closest thing to rock star treatment I’ve ever received as a writer!
I had a lovely group of students who came along and were really engaged and interested and asked
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June 13, 2013
After Fight Club …
… or, as I referred to it when e-chatting with Lisa earlier, ‘Club Chuck’. My tired mind 
picked up on the two important elements and mashed them together like bugs on a windscreen, with the predictable degree of comprehension.
My point? Lisa Hannett’s latest post is up over at the wonderful This
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June 12, 2013
Competition: Midnight and Moonshine
Sooooo, I’ve got a limited edition signed hardcover of Lisa’s and my collection/mosaic novel, Midnight and Moonshine. Details below …
The blurb:
The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.
When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that bound her to Ásgarðr — a heedless pantheon, a domineering
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