Angela Slatter's Blog, page 147
April 3, 2012
April 1, 2012
So You Want to Write for A Franchise, Or Thanks for My New Kitchen, Mr Lucas: in the Lair with Karen Miller and Sean Williams
As readers of this column know, we regularly and without thought of consequences, kidnap our guests by means of a malfunctioning vortex manipulator. The problem with doing this to people who write Star Wars novels is that they tend to have their own working
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March 29, 2012
Women's History Month over at Gillian's place
Dr Gillian Polack has been running a series of guest posts over on her blog for Women's History Month. There's a whole bunch from folk such as Lisa Hannett, Sue Isle and Donna Maree Hanson.
Mine is there today, about one of my fave painters, Evelyn de
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March 27, 2012
Ursula Le Guin on the Death of the Book being very much exaggerated
Over at Book View Cafe, the legendary Le Guin talks books, reading on screen and writing 'What tosh' in margins.
People love to talk about the death of whatever — the book, or history, or Nature, or God, or authentic Cajun cuisine. Eschatologically-minded people do, anyhow.
After I wrote that,
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March 26, 2012
Tuesday Therapy at the Hannettorium
Joanne Anderton talks disconnecting over here.
March 23, 2012
At long last …
… for many years I have yearned for a pair of Docs.
For the last couple of years, I have covetted those belonging to the Duchess of Darkness, Kirstyn McDermott.
I finally got a pair. Yes, they look the same as Kirstyn's. No, I did
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March 20, 2012
Reign of Tansy: Tuesday Therapy
Meanwhile, over at the Hannettorium …
… the delightful and terribly clever Dr Tansy Rayner Roberts talks small goals.
Huzzah!
And so, on a day with an otter …
… I also managed to make it onto the shortlist for the Aurealis Awards Best Horror Short Story.
I'm not saying the otter made it happen … but I am going to treat the otter with a lot of respect.
'The otter?' you say.
Yes, the otter – thanks to
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March 15, 2012
FNQ: Hello, Humidity
In a few hours I'll be heading into the state's north to teach short story workshops in Townsville and Cairns … and to have my hair turn into a giant frizz ball. Something like this … 
But it's okay, I'm looking forward to doing these workshops. In fact
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March 13, 2012
New Sourdough news!
I'm very happy to announce that Tartarus Press has produced a paperback version of my sold-out collection, Sourdough and Other Stories.
Available here.
*snoopy dance*
"These stories are stupendously good." Paul Kane, The Compulsive Reader
"There is magic in this world." Rick Kleffel's Agony Column
"An absolute treasure." Paul Charles Smith,
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