Angela Slatter's Blog, page 144
June 3, 2012
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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June 1, 2012
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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May 12, 2012
In which North Yorkshire refuses to feed us
And so, after arriving at an expensive B&B which was not prepared for us (more of that tomorrow), we set off at 6.00 to try and find dinner. We do not smell bad, we look normal’ish and we have money.
The Italian restaurant in a nearby village, which had 8 free and empty tables, could not possibly fit us in until
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A plug for the Appletree
We had the absolute pleasure of staying at the Appletree B & B in Tavistock, Devon for two days.
Cannot say enough nice things about this place – the room was lovely, the decor of the whole place is gorgeous, the breakfasts were fantastic and our host, Andy, opened the door wearing a Star Wars t-shirt.
What more could you want????
Go there!!
May 10, 2012
Happiness is …
… Being in Hay-on-Wye for the very first time 
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May 8, 2012
And I woke up to …
… A BFS short listing for “The Coffin-maker’s Daughter”. Thanks to Stephen Jones for including it in A Book of Horrors!
Huzzah!
May 3, 2012
Day 1: London
Regent’s Park in Spring,
Flowers run colour riot,
Grey cold sky wonder.
April 30, 2012
Oops, Your Psychosis is Showing: in the Lair with Kirstyn McDermott
Kirstyn McDermott is the author of the critically acclaimed Madigan Mine and the upcoming Perfections. Her works plumbs the depths of the human (and inhuman) psyche, examining heart and soul with the intensity of a stylish Dr Frankenstein. She joined us by the cauldron (the Lair
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April 25, 2012
Over at This is Horror: Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
Over at This is Horror, my flash fear piece has gone up, complete with awesome illustration by the excellent Nick Gucker. Soooo creepy.
Go here for “Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean”.
The story isn’t my usual style and it’s definitely showing how much Megan Abbott I was
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