Angela Slatter's Blog, page 121

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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Haze is launching …

… so Paula Weston’s new novel Haze is being launch on Thursday 6 June at Riverbend Books. Details are here.

Go along – you know you want to.

Rise of the Fallen

I’ve been fortunate enough to receive a copy of Teagan Chilcott’s debut novel Rise of the Fallen. Not only is it Teagan’s debut, but it’s also the first speculative fiction book to come from Australia’s oldest independent Indigenous publishing house, Magabala Books.

And one lucky person will
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Ducks!!!

My new hoodie has arrived from Redbubble, embellished by one of the genius designs of Kathleen Jennings.

I shall wear it always.

A Killer Among Demons

This is what I’ve been doing this morning, going over the galleys for my story “Cuckoo” in the A Killer Among Demons anthology from Dark Prints Press.

Soon to follow: a rundown of the Literati festival on the Gold Coast and this year’s Aurealis Awards in Sydney.

The most important thing I can tell you …

… is that Kathleen has put the Flash Gordon and the ducks designed up at Redbubble.

Go here.

As my birthday gift to myself, I am getting it in a green hoodie.

Also, tomorrow I teach a 3 hr masterclass at the Gold Coast’s Literati Festival – about putting your best story
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And now we do the dance of happiness …

… because this arrived from Redbubble.

Kathleen Jennings is putting her designs (slowly, oh so slowly. HINT!) there for transmutation into magnificent t-shirts and hoodies and stuffs, oh my!

You should go here and order something and encourage her to make more of her wonderful designs available … if only so
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Wise Words

The lovely Meg Vann, CEO of the Queensland Writers Centre, writes her monthly letter to members and it goes out with our copies of WQ magazine.

A very talented writer herself, Meg hits on a basic truth here.