Angela Slatter's Blog, page 133
November 19, 2012
Thank you, Harry Markov …
… for introducing me to Miz Emily Carroll, who lives here.
His Face All Red is so wonderful and creepy and perfect!!
I want her to turn Sourdough and Other Stories into a graphic novel.
November 18, 2012
And so, back to the novel
Back to editing the first half of Brisneyland by Night today. To remind myself what it’s about, here is the opening:
Brisneyland by Night
‘How many kids now?’ I asked.
‘Twenty-five we can identify for sure. But that’s out of a couple of hundred a week. Not all those are
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November 15, 2012
The pirate story I wasn’t going to write
So, yes, pirates have made it into The Bitterwood Bible collection. I was, initially, unwilling to even try this as Pirates of the Caribbean has really ruined it for us all, but then Maude kept clearing her throat and pointing to the page and muttering, “Tell my story,
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November 14, 2012
On Being a Writer – Kat Howard
Wonderful post from Kat Howard:
On being a writer
My students know that I write. So even though I don’t teach any creative writing courses, there are usually a handful of students from each class every semester who come and talk to me because they want to be writers.
There
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Xoum, Xoum, Xoum
Sorry, couldn’t resist. But look!
Two new titles from the punchy digital press Xoum.
On the left, we have Jason Nahrung‘s Blood and Dust, featuring Kev the vampire, and on the right,
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November 13, 2012
Hey, Katinka, it’s a bake-off
So, the Queensland Writers Centre is a’bubble, a’tremble, a’simmer with news of a bake-off.
A charity bake-off:
From November 15-30, QWC invades the kitchen for the first QWC bake-off in support of International Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month.
Go here to donate. You know you want to for precisely the
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The Next Big Thing
Welcome to my edition of The Next Big Thing, which is a chain of book and author recommendations – so far luminaries like Sarah Pinborough, Paul Magrs, and Adam Nevill. One author tags five others, who then each tag five others until … well, presumably until every writer
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Remember why you fear Robert Shearman
In today’s mail, Rob Shearman’s wonderfully dark and disturbing new collection, Remember Why You Fear Me.
An excellent offering from the lovely folk at Chizine, and with an Introduction by Mr Stephen Jones.
November 12, 2012
Dear Teen Staff at Woolies (Toowong)
Dear Teen Staff at Woolies (Toowong),
I, too, was a checkout chick – for three years (the last two of high school and the first of uni). Yes, it was boring, but it taught me patience – well, to live a lot in my head, at least. But I
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November 8, 2012
Death and the Cat
Goldeen Ogawa
This has made my day.
Death and the Cat prints by the very talented Goldeen Ogawa.
Go here to order.
