Angela Slatter's Blog, page 130
January 2, 2013
1.30am brain hates you (and by ‘you’ I mean me)
So last night I was up until 2am working over a story that is due very soon.
It’s one that has required a LOT of restructuring and Frankensteining, flesh-sculpting and strong-arming – in fact, to a level that I don’t normally have to go with my stories. This isn’t
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December 31, 2012
In Fabula-divino
Behold, the cover for Nicole Murphy’s anthology, In Fabula-divino.
This anthology contains new stories from Nicole’s In Fabula-divino stable, and reprints from the likes of Kevin J. Anderson and Rebecca Moesta , Trudi Canavan, Kaaron Warren and myself.
Full Table of Contents is below and more info about the anthology is
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Happy New Year from the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain + Tanith Lee!
Happy 2013 from the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain.
Our plan for this year is for the Lair to be a periodic feature rather than a regular one because, as we discovered last year, life tends to interfere with all one’s good intentions. Also: books and the writing
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December 28, 2012
Book! In form of cupcake!
Oh, this makes me soooo happy! From my friends, Kelly and Birgitta’s kitchen: a cupcake with a mini The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales cover on top!
My heart is sad only coz I did not get to eat said cupcake, coz it was for Kel’s birthday.
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Out in the wild …
… Midnight and Moonshine as being taken on holiday by talented illustrator Rob O’Connor.
And is that a Kahlua sitting beside it, getting fresh?
In other news, Significant Other and I are just back from 4 days at Springbrook. We stayed at the Mouses Houses and basically ate
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December 25, 2012
Merry whatever
Hope you’ve all had a pleasant holiday period of the denomination or non-denomination of your choice. We had a lovely 24hrs bouncing between our families and eating far too much in both locations – we are like the Christmas locusts. In fact, we are the Christmas locusts.
About to
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December 23, 2012
And over here …
… I chat to my friend and fellow writer, Azra Alagic (auttor of Not Like My Mother) about writing, changing career directions, and collaborations without tears.
Today I chat with award winning speculative fiction writer Angela Slatter who has recently launched her new book, a joint production with Lisa
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December 22, 2012
The Belated Otherworld Launch Post
And lo, we did trek to Adelaide, City of Frog Cakes and Haighs Chocolates, and lo, we did launch a book there.
Yes, Midnight and Moonshine had a bottle of champers cracked over it in Adelaide as well as Brisbane and we can declare it well and truly out
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December 19, 2012
A Killer Among Demons
Squeee! This is the cover for the new Dark Prints Press anthology, A Killer Among Demons.
My story “Cuckoo” is in this one, and there’s also work by the likes of Alan Baxter and Stephen M. Irwin – among others.
It can be pre-ordered from here.
Night Land
And this is the cover for The Night Land issue which will contain a translation of “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter”.
