Angela Slatter's Blog, page 138

Mini-review: What Gets Left Behind

To celebrate FantasyCon in Brighton, here’s a review of Spectral’s newest chapbook, Mark West’s good old-fashioned scary What Gets Left Behind.

The blurb is as follows:

In 1981, Gaffney was terrorised by the Rainy Day Abductor.

Local girls went missing.

And two boys made a terrifying discovery.

Now one
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Super Useful

Yes, from the man who brought you Unicorns Doing Horrible, Horrible Things comes a most useful post about Plot. Thanks, Peter M. Ball.

I am currently printing this out and sticking it on my wall.

EVERYTHING I KNOW ABOUT PLOT IN 1,069 WORDS OR LESS

1. PROTAGONIST, ANTAGONIST – FIGHT!

Most plots
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Yes, I know I should be working on the novel, but …

Rackham’s Bertalda

… “The Burnt Moon”, which is part of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings collection is coming through quite insistently this morning, so I am going with that.

Here is the first snippet:

Three days after Hafwen was turned to ash, the rats invaded Southarp.

They started at the Burnt
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Over at Mania.com …

… A Book of Horrors gets a great review from Tim Janson.

How’s the US cover?

Go here to read the review.

How the cover came to be …

Over at Kathleen’s place, she talks about how the Midnight and  Moonshine cover came into being … and a painful birth it was too!

From this … to this.

Re-post

A bit like re-gifting, yes. Here’s a re-post of my piece on Place as Person, which  originally appeared over at the lovely Mary Victoria’s place.

Place as person: Location, Location, Location!

An essential ingredient of story is the setting, the location, the place. It’s the first, best way to keep
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There is no secret handshake

When people ask me for advice about approaching literary agents I find there is always a  continuing theme, a deeply embedded belief: that there exists a secret handshake.

Everyone is convinced there is a great arcane mystery to getting an agent and it must surely involve a secret handshake.
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Two Brains, Two Launches

And so, in keeping with, y’know, stuff, we are having two launches. 

There is the Brisbane one, the World one, which you’ve all seen adequately covered here, and now there is an Adelaide launch for Midnight and Moonshine. Huzzah!

The Otherworld launch will take place in Adelaide on Friday,
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Midnight and Moonshine = Starred Review from PW

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!! 

First review for this book.

Midnight and Moonshine
Lisa L. Hannett and Angela Slatter. Ticonderoga (www.ticonderogapublications.com), $14.99 trade paper (324p) ISBN 978-1-92185-730-0

In “Seeds,” the opening story of Hannett and Slatter’s innovative dark fantasy collection, Mymnir, Odinn’s white raven, flees the Ragnarok, “an
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Tales to Terrify!

Rackham’s Maid Maleen

My story “The Bones Remember Everything” is now up at Tales to Terrify, along with Maria Alexander’s “A Conspiracy of One”.

Thanks to Harry Markov and Lawrence Santoro for making this possible and to Elise Goodman for the lovely reading.

FYI: “The Bones Remember Everything” originally
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