Angela Slatter's Blog, page 131
December 18, 2012
Yes, I know …
… I owe you a post about the Adelaide launch.
I’ll get to it.
Just writing against a deadline.
As soon as I finish “White Bride, Black Bride, Raven-girl, Hare”, I will supply said post.
December 13, 2012
Hello, Adelaide
Greetings, City of Frogcakes.
Tonight we commit the Otherworld launch of Midnight and Moonshine at the SA Writers Centre.
Huzzah!
December 12, 2012
When You’re Glued to the Screen
Over at Walkley Magazine, Darren Baguley writes about managing the time-suck that is the Internet. He asked me (among others) some questions – I fear the point of my life is to be an example to others of ‘what can go wrong’.
Journalists are a curious lot, but is all that net surfing changing our brains? Darren Baguley looks at internet
Read more...
The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter is going to Japan
The delightful Mr Edward Lipsett of Trident House has purchased reprint rights to “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” (from A Book of Horrors) – also kudos to him on being the fastest paying publisher I have dealt with!
The story will appear in translation in or about the March 2013 issue
Read more...
December 11, 2012
British Fantasy Society Horror Anthology
I’m delighted to find that Mr Johnny Mains has announced his provisional line-up for the above anthology, and even more delighted to find I am in it.
My fellow victims are (in no particular order of awesomeness): Robert Shearman, Thana Niveau, Muriel Gray, Alex Hamilton, Stephen Volk. Lynda E.
Read more...
December 10, 2012
Over at This is Horror …
… the rather delightful Mr Brown has listed his 10 Must Read Australian Horror Writers.
He’s been kind enough to put me in there and I’m in some wonderful company – go on, click the link and check it out.
You know you want to.
You should go to …
… Clarkesworld and read “Sweet Subtleties” by Lisa Hannett, for it is awesome and awful and wondrous and wrong and delicious.
Javier calls me Una, though I’m not the first. There are leftovers all around his studio. Evidence of other, more perishable versions. Two white chocolate legs on a
Read more...
December 8, 2012
One Small Step
The lovely Tehani of FableCroft has announced the ToC for her new (early) 2013 anthology, One Small Step. Happy to see quite a few friends in this one!
You’ll note a story by Lisa Hannett and I, “By Blood and Incantation”, a little tale of leeches, magic
Read more...
December 5, 2012
This time next week …
… I will be schlepping to the airport in order to fly to Adelaide for our second launch of Midnight and Moonshine – aka the Otherworld launch.
We’ll be at the SA Writers’ Centre on Friday 14 December at 6pm. The full address is 2nd floor, 187 Rundle Street,
Read more...
Over at The October Country …
… Blu Gilliand very kindly reviews “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” (from A Book of Horrors).
I love stories that explore old-world traditions, bringing to light the customs and techniques that are fading fast in the technology-driven world we live in today. In “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter,” Angela Slatter writes about burial
Read more...
