Angela Slatter's Blog, page 125

Dragons!

Give Kathleen Jennings the good scissors and some paper and she will give you this.

I must write something about this immediately.

Bitterwood Bible: St Dymphna’s School for Poison Girls

John Singer Sargent, The Misses Vickers

And so, after finishing the paper-based edits of Hallowmass on Monday, I’ve given my brain a break and gone back to working on The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings.

Below is a first draft of the
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Aurealis Awards Shortlists

And so the AA shortlists are out and I’m very happy to see Midnight and Moonshine is a finalist for Best Collection.

And the company it’s keeping is impressive and humbling:

That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote
by K. J. Bishop (self-published)
 
Metro Winds
by Isobelle Carmody
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Scoop Magazine …

… gives Midnight and Moonshine the thumbs-up.

Huzzah!

Midnight and Moonshineby Lisa L Hannett and Angela Slatter, Ticonderoga Publications, $25Angela Slatter and Lisa Hannett are tearing up trees in the Australian fantasy community. Both are much lauded both at home and abroad – Slatter’s latest achievement was to become the first-ever
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Meanwhile, over at Overland

The clever and talented Rjurik Davidson (he of the wondrous Library of Forgotten Books) reviewed my collection The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales. Below is a snippet and the rest can be read here.

Few writers have burst across the Speculative Fiction scene in Australia with
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Sydney Weekender

View from the Intercontinental

I’ve returned from a wonderful weekend in Sydney. Having lived there for four years at one point it was a bit weird to find that this time I felt like a foreigner there. Don’t know why – I guess I’ve just been back in Brisneyland for so long
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Go here …

… ’tis the new online home of the fabulous and talented Angie Rega.

As I said, go here.

Keep an eye out for The Cobbler Mage, due out in April 20143 from Little Fox.

Boundless Delight …

… due to this.

Spotted in one of the NewsLink stores at Sydney Airport when I was coming back from the NSW Writers’ Centre Speculative Fiction Festival (more on that later).

Makes me very happy to see A Book of Horrors out in the wild.

(If only Galaxy had thought to get some copies
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A.K.A. Livia Day

Multi-award winning Fantasy author, Doctor Who commentator, PhD owner, caster of the pod Galactic Suburbia, and newly minted crime author, Tansy Rayner Roberts is one of the leading voices of the Australian Speculative Fiction Scene. I had a chat with her about her new novel, A Trifle Dead, the
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Prickle Moon

I’ve just finished reading this for the purpose of blurbing.

Quite, quite lovely.

Thank you, Juliet Marillier and Ticonderoga Publications.