Angela Slatter's Blog, page 121

Oh, Canada!

ChiZine have announced the ToC for this year’s Imaginarium anthology.

Lisa Hannett and I have a story in there (due to Lisa’s Canadianness and my status as someone standing next to a Canadian).

It’s the second Best Of outing for “Bella Beaufort Goes to War” – she’s also scored a berth in Ticonderoga’s
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And the winner of Hair Side, Flesh Side is …

Thanks, Mentalfloss

… Derek Kunsken.

The Battle of Agincourt was won by the English, with the French coming a close second.

Will be in the mail as soon as I make it to the post office.

Who knew in 1987 …

Photo by David Pollitt (little known fact: on the bottom half I am wearing cow print pjs)

… that one day I’d make it onto the pages of my alma mater’s Contact Magazine?

Thanks to the lovely Marie Howath for asking such nice questions and making me look good!

Must admit, when I read
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And the winner is …

… the lovely Thoraiya Dyer, who will take away the copy of Rise of the Fallen by Teagan Chilcott.

Here winning haiku:

Fanfic turned to cash
Draco renamed Jace; I beg you
Don’t describe his loins

Over at the Guardian: Science fiction and fantasy: the wonderful wizards of Oz

The Guardian has a look at the ‘emergence’ of Australian SFF authors onto the international scene:

If your experience of Australian science fiction and fantasy is limited to Nevil Shute’s On the Beach and the Mad Max films, it’s time to take another look as the wizards of Oz launch themselves on
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Talking Schlock

The lovely Teodor Reljic, the co-editor of Schlock Magazine was kind enough to ask me some interesting questions.

I did my best to answer them in an equally interesting fashion here.

Got Kindle? Kobo? Etc?

The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales is finally e-vailable over here.

Devoted Amazon folk, go here.

So if you’ve been holding off getting the hard copy due to reasons of postage costs, etc, then you could always try the digital version.

A Killer Among Demons is now ‘e-vailable’

The new anthology from Dark Prints Press, A Killer Among Demons, is now available in e-form from the DPP website.

The cover is by the very talented Vincent Chong.

The ToC:Stephen M Irwin – ’24/7′ Angela Slatter – ‘Cuckoo’ William Meikle – ‘Truth Decay’ Alan Baxter – ‘The Beat of
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Helen Marshall: Have Fluency in Ecclesiastical Latin, Will Travel

When I was a kid I genuinely thought everyone who wrote books had died a long time ago. Like the dinosaurs. I had never seen a writer. I figured people didn’t write books anymore.

(soon-to-be Dr) Helen Marshall

When Lisa Hannett returned from WFC in Toronto last
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Why do the voices in my head never tell me to go to Paris?

It’s unfair, really. As a writer, there are a lot of voices in my head – fortunately for you all, I channel their suggestions into my writing. Otherwise: man, we’d all be in trouble.

I started a story last night, which is provisionally entitled either “Feast” or “Lemarchand’s Dictionary of Tenuous Connections”
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