Angela Slatter's Blog, page 135

I do believe …

… today requires an otter. Mr Burns Otter steepling paws.

And, hey, why not Sneaky Otter is sneaking?

Thanks, Daily Otter.

Stuff I do

I’ve taken to walking around the park in the morning – in the interests of removing (in a non-surgical manner) the 20kg I managed to put on during 2011 whilst finishing the PhDoom. Also, to simply get some degree of fitness back and to fit into the clothes
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Fairy Tales On Point

Thanks to Dr Goss for this link.

Prof Maria Tartar on the Annotated Brothers Grimm.

Go here.

PS: the interviewer is something of an interrupter. I do hate having the sense that someone is being directed and harried by a sheepdog.

BFA in the mail

My British Fantasy Award arrived this morning – huzzah! With a mere two chips in it – which, given the ride from the UK to Australia and the general nature of couriers, I consider a triumph.

Double huzzah!

It looks, I must say, somewhat dangerous. Significant Other peered at it
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A Ghostly Gathering

Looking for something to read on your iPhone, smartphone, e-booky-whatsit?

A Ghostly Gathering from Mammoth Books and Mr Jones gathers together four stories from myself, Thana Niveau, Ramsey Campbell and the redoubtable Mark Morris into this awesome little epub.

$2 – totally worth it. Especially if you’re not familiar with
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More Bitterwood Bible: By My Voice I Shall Be Known

Continuing to write what I’m not supposed to be writing. This is rough, but it’s getting there. The title is taken from the words of the Cumaean Sibyl.

By My Voice I Shall Be Known

The backing fabric is thick and my needle blunt – I cannot afford a new
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Tales to Terrify – Harry Markov is in the house

I don’t let too many people take over my blog – okay, I don’t let anyone take over my blog – except today, it’s Harry Markov, one of the eds of the Tales to Terrify anthology (which is the fraternal almost-twin of the podcast). Below, Harry
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The Drawing Room – in which I try to sound less like Ralph Wiggam than usual

So this eve I headed over to the ABC Studios at Southbank and had a chat with Waleed Aly and Wesley Enoch (Artistic Director of the Queensland Theatre Company).

Hopefully I sounded okay – although I did manage to hideously mangle Nnedi Okorafor’s name, for which I apologise –
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Again, art blast

Another Chrissy Ellsworth piece, the cover for Shimmer‘s issue 4, 2006.

Illustrating my story “Bluebeard”, in that issue.

Oh, and also …

 … revisiting some art from the past. The lovely Chrissy Ellsworth did this gorgeous piece, which was used as the inspiration for my story “Dresses, three” that appeared in Shimmer‘s Art Issue in 2008 (methinks).