Angela Slatter's Blog, page 140
August 10, 2012
Revisiting childhood
Last night I ordered one of my favourite books from childhood, Joan Aiken’s The Wolves of Willoughby Chase.
I read this when we lived out at Longreach and I was about nine … it was an incredible read for a kid living in the Outback, to read about snow
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August 9, 2012
Rough Music
As I work my way through the TBR pile, I’m finally getting to the rest of the Spectral Press chapbooks. The reading for the other night was Simon Kurt Unsworth’s wonderfully strange Rough Music.
There’s a great cadence to this work, a gentle riding of emotional peaks
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Vale the Pink Flamingo
My beloved laptop, the Pink Flamingo, has gone to the great tech graveyard in the sky. I had her since 2008 and she has served me well, producing two short story collections (Sourdough and Other Stories, The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales), numerous articles, random
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August 8, 2012
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An appropriate Jennings
World Fantasy noms are out today and I cannot contain my delight to note that Lisa L. Hannett’s debut collection Bluegrass Symphony is on the shortlist for Best Collection.
Equally delightful is the news that Kathleen Jennings is on the list
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OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG
An appropriate Jennings
World Fantasy noms are out today and I cannot contain my delight to note that Lisa L. Hannett’s debut collection Bluegrass Symphony is on the shortlist for Best Collection.
Equally delightful is the news that Kathleen Jennings is on the list
Read more...
A Tales to Terrify Squee
Am very squeeful to report that the lovely Harry Markov is taking three of my stories for the Tales to Terrify podcast. Huzzah!
“Bluebeard”, “The Bones Remember Everything” and “Sourdough” will all be hearable for your listening pleasure.
It’s always so nice to hear someone reading out what
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Another winner from Spectral Press
Simon Marshall-Jones has done it again with another of his chapbook series, Alison Littlewood’s The Eyes of Water.
A tale of old gods, modern men, and water-filled cenotes in the Yucatan Peninsula, it’s a source of bedtime restlessness and dreams about the deceptive haloclines that trick the careless. The
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August 6, 2012
August 5, 2012
In the strange space …
… where I write very little short fiction.
I was thinking this morning that I’ve been in the space for a couple of years now. The kind of short fiction output I had a couple of year ago was way beyond what I have now and that’s due to
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