Angela Slatter's Blog, page 129
February 1, 2013
Once Upon a Time: New Fairy Tales
It never rains but it pours when you’re a writer. Long periods of crying in the wilderness, just you and your antique typewriter working away, getting sand in the crevices and seeming to achieve not much else.
Then all the lines you’ve thrown out start to move.
This morning
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Locus Review *causing high kicks to be done around the living room*
So, the delightful Faren Miller has reviewed Midnight and Moonshine in the latest Locus (which you should totally go and buy) AND Midnight and Moonshine made the Locus Recommended Reading List.
The things we call collections range all the way from gatherings of stories so
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When I’m Not Writing
Over at the lovely Stacey H. Lee‘s very pretty site, I talk about what I do When I’m Not Writing.
Go here!
Betcha can guess.
January 30, 2013
January 29, 2013
My Precious!!
Warning: may contain an article by me about polishing your work through critiquing.
And stuff.
Sarah Pinborough: Spreading the Mayhem
I recently discovered the work of multi-talented UK author Sarah Pinborough. I devoured the Dog-Faced Gods trilogy with delight, relish and a dash of mustard. Ms P doesn’t know me from a bar of soap but was still kind enough to answer some questions.
Her work is
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January 28, 2013
Exegesis, Part the Third: Mosaic
Kay Nielsen
Continuing the posts of the exegetical component of my PhD – no criticism intended, merely analysis. This section looks at mosaic novels and other forms of fragmented storytelling.
Part Three: Mosaic
‘My lies and the fragments of truth I remember mingle so well that I can hardly recognise
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January 27, 2013
Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth
Cover art (c) Les Edwards (Fedogan & Bremer hardcover)
I’m very excited to reveal that Weirder Shadows Over Innsmouth, the third volume in the Stephen Jones edited Innsmouth series, has its Table of Contents all ready.
The venerable and Cthulhu-approved Fedogan and Bremer are stepping up to publish
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January 24, 2013
Reminding myself constantly …
… of this. 
Working on the second half of the novel (now known as Hallowmass instead of Brisneyland by Night) the last four days and it feels like banging my head on the wall. I have to keep in the front of my brain that the first half
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January 20, 2013
Exegesis, Part the Second: Memory
More from my PhD Exegesis, wherein I consider the ideas of memory at work in Sourdough and Other Stories.Part Two: Memory
‘The sight of the inn picks at the stitches of my memory. The splintered shingle, emblazoned with a faded golden lily, swings in the breeze. I stare at
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