Angela Slatter's Blog, page 143
June 17, 2012
24Hr Book: The Autopsy
Why the f&%k can't writers follow the style sheet??
And so, a week after the action I can finally process what happened. The fact that I’m bed-ridden with the Mother of All Flus, which has taken out a fatwa on my ass, means I have the time to think
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Like a duck paddling … all the action is beneath the surface
Yes, this blog’s been quiet.
A little too quiet.
But that’s largely because, after a 5 week trip overseas, I’ve been running around trying to catch up on all the neglected things … one of those being my new collection, co-authored with the other half of the Brain,
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June 11, 2012
Continuum
Al Baxter's photo
See? I did work at Continuum. Reading with Lisa Hannett and Felicity Dowker.
Yep, working hard.
And that’s a wrap …
… well, from the writers’ points of view anyway. Now a team of night-winged editors have-at our words and slap them into shape.
I worked right up until I had quite literally only one minute to spare before I handed it over.
Now am at home, trying to get my
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June 10, 2012
24Hr Book Word Monkeys
Yes! It’s here and happening.
The 24Hr Book Project is well and truly underway and we are spewing forth wordage at a rate of knots. Some of those word even form sentences.
Read what we’re doing here. Currently unedited – later on today the winged editors will descend
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June 7, 2012
Just in case you were wondering …
Here’s a great summary of what we talked about at the So You Want to be a Writer seminar last weekend.
Thanks, Poise On Arrows!
June 5, 2012
I can haz snapshot?
Overe here, I have been snapshotted by the lovely Helen Merrick.
Anything I said was uttered under the influence of jetlag.
That’s my story and lo, I doth stick to it.
June 4, 2012
Smile and say “Cheese”: the 2012 Snapshot is here
Time for the Aussie specfic snapshot once again, when brave individuals (Alisa Krasnostein, Kathryn Linge, David McDonald, Helen Merrick, Ian Mond, Jason Nahrung, Alex Pierce, Tansy Rayner Roberts, Tehani Wessely and Sean Wright) throw questions at other individuals, who attempt to answer and throw answers back.
There are tributes
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June 3, 2012
Sale
I sold a story to Dark Prints Press for their A Killer Among Demons anthology.
“Cuckoo” is certainly one of the nastier stories I’ve written.
A sample:
The child was dead by the time I found her, but she suited my purposes perfectly. Tiny delicate
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And in the mail …
… arrived home to find this on the doorstep: always nice to get a new Kim Stanley Robinson.
