Angela Slatter's Blog, page 148

March 4, 2012

Sublime juxtaposition and gravitas: in the Lair with Jason Nahrung

Today we kidnapped the delightful Mr Jason Nahrung (yes, the man who competes with Sean Williams and Trent Jamieson for the title "Nicest Man in Australian Spec-Fic"). Jason is the author of the novel The Darkness Within and the new novella Salvage (which is by turns disturbing, frightening,
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Published on March 04, 2012 14:00

March 2, 2012

Tomorrow, there will be Writers' Week …

… in Adelaide


With Brain, and Rob Shearman, and Margo Lanagan and Kelly Link and Gavin Grant, and Sean Williams and Cat Sparks, and Kate Eltham, and Ian Mond, and a bunch of other people I don't know.


There will be a party and the Brains will be reunited!


Huzzah!

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Published on March 02, 2012 01:20

February 29, 2012

Week 5 as a full-time writer?

I think it must be about week 5, but I'm too lazy to check the calendar. I type this in between preparing dinner for the Significant Other (he will be home soon) and trying to squeeze out a few more words on "The Badger Bride" before the sun
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Published on February 29, 2012 23:24

February 27, 2012

Tuesday's Hannettorium

Today Lisa chats with the disturbing Deb Biancotti on running.


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Published on February 27, 2012 15:00

February 25, 2012

At last …

After five or so years of stress, here it is.


Beautifully bound by the nice man at Able Bookbinders.


On Monday, it shall be submitted and then it's all over bar the floppy hat-wearing ceremony.

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Published on February 25, 2012 03:57

February 20, 2012

How pretty is …

… the cover of Lezli Robyn's debut collection?


Bittersuite is coming out under the banner of Ticonderoga Publications and is due out in August.

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Published on February 20, 2012 15:31

Tuesday at the Hannettorium

The delightful Kaaron Warren gets zen over at Lisa's Tuesday Therapy.


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Published on February 20, 2012 14:38

Meanwhile, back at the ranch

I'm just finishing up facilitating an online course for the Australian Writer's Marketplace, Science Fiction Short Story.


The course was designed by one of Australia's most successful authors of science fiction, fantasy and horror, Lee Battersby, and takes you on a journey through the fantastic art of the science
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Published on February 20, 2012 14:10

And we're back – and a book in 24hrs

We're back – sorry for the break in transmission.


We fell into the abyss between domain registrars (*shakes fist*), but thanks to the sheer bloodymindedness of the in-house IT Support Badger The Bones Remember Everything is once again troubling the internetz.


One of the things that has come to fruition
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Published on February 20, 2012 02:32

February 18, 2012

Unintentional retro day

I am in the process of transferring my domain to another registrar and it's not going as smoothly as I'd like. So my site is essentially down and instead you get to read this snapshot of it from a couple years back. With luck everything will be back to normal shortly.



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Published on February 18, 2012 14:54