Angela Slatter's Blog, page 141
August 9, 2012
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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August 3, 2012
Writerly advice
Yes! Coz that’s what you want first thing in the morning before the coffee has kicked in! Yes, I KNOW it’s almost 10am, but for me that is first thing in the morning on the weekends – the only sleep-in I get. Shut up! Don’t judge me!!
Mmmm, more
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August 2, 2012
Grimm Goldfish
Happy to report that the two stories up at the lovely Goldfish Grimm are by two of my Clarion South 09 mates, Suzanne Willis and Aidan Doyle.
“The Faerie Tailor” and “The Executioner’s Hat” provide most excellent reads!
King Death by Paul Finch
So as part of my quest to get through the TBR pile threatening to tumble from my bedside table and crush me in my sleep, I’m trying to read a short story or a novel chapter religiously before bed. Last night it was Paul Finch’s King Death from
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