Angela Slatter's Blog, page 137
October 9, 2012
The Drawing Room
And so on Monday Oct 29th I’ll be in The Drawing Room on Radio National with Waleed Aly and Wesley Enoch, director of David Williamson’s Managing Carmen. We’ll be talking about stuff. Live to air (so, I will need to turn down my Billy Connolly dial) at 6.40pm.
In my head, The Drawing Room looks like this. [image error]
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October 5, 2012
October 3, 2012
Unquotable Quotes
As we struggle to the end of all the required ‘stuff’ required to get a book out into the world, we thought we’d share some of our less-than-successful requests for cover quotes. Note: none of this may have happened.
George R.R. Martin: Who the FUCK are these people?
Neil Gaiman:
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The Maiden in the Ice
Rackham’s Undine.
Whilst walking around the park yesterday (trying to psych myself into a jog), I came up with the plot for another of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings stories.
I’ve had the title “The Maiden in the Ice” bouncing around for a while, but with no real ideas
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Good advice
8 Rules of Writing from Grandmaster Gaiman, as laid out over at Maria Popova’s Brain Pickings. 
Write
Put one word after another. Find the right word, put it down.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
The rest is here.
October 2, 2012
Jo Fletcher asked, and Lo, I did it …
… wrote a little piece about writing and winning a British Fantasy Award.
The writing game is a fickle beastie.
It’s not all splash and dash – any writer will tell you that very few aspects of the life move swiftly (well, except for money out of wallets and the
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Lovely Jo Fletcher Books are Lovely
As is the lovely Jo Fletcher herself. 
October 1, 2012
BFA Acceptance Speech
If I can get this technology to work, and for those who are a bit bored, here’s my acceptance speech for the British Fantasy Award. Those who saw me accept two Aurealis Awards a couple of years ago, will be pleased to note that I was again barefoot.
‘Tis
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September 30, 2012
One loves the smell of British Fantasy Awards in the morning
Much to my delighted surprise and suprised delight, “The Coffin-Maker’s Daughter” won 
the BFA for Best Short Story. This is especially nice when you consider the other short-listed works.
The full list of winners is available here and a sample of my story is here.
Thanks
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September 28, 2012
Mini-review: Nowhere Hall
When Publishers Weekly describes someone as “…a rising purveyor of high literary 
strangeness…” a reader can justifiably hope for more than a touch of awesome in a chapbook called Nowhere Hall written by a writer known only as Cate Gardner.
Ron is a faded man,
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