Angela Slatter's Blog, page 144

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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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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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!

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.

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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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.

 

Manuscript Development Opportunity

Thanks, Daily Otter

The Queensland Writers Centre and Hachette Australia are once again running the manuscript development program – huzzah!

Go here for details.

And be nice to the nice people running the program.

Continuum 8

So, yesterday I managed to stay awake long enough to participate in QWC’s So You Want to be a Writer seminar, ably chaired by Aimée Lindorff. The two more awake panellists were the delightful and delovely Chris Currie and Ben Law.

More empanelling for me coming
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Home and Huzzah

We’re home after a five week trip and this blog has been sorely neglected. A contrite series of catch-ups will be posted. Tomorrow, though, I must set aside my jetlag and related tendency to walk into walls and talk to shoes, and give some good advice to folk
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