Angela Slatter's Blog, page 150
February 10, 2012
Great post/interview over at Brad C Hodson's place
Mr H interviews horror maven and poet Maria Alexander as part of Women in Horror Month – huzzah!
T'is here.
February 8, 2012
Are you giving away your story?
Today, I am in super-crit mode; so far eight stories read and critiqued since 8.30 this morning. I know the crash will come soon.
But while I've been doing this, I've noticed a repeated motif in all the stories I've read, which is to write a perfectly wonderful paragraph,
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In which there are critters …
Over at Shared Worlds, a group of us were give the chance to 'choose our critter' and write a little history for it. I made up Cloud-Bibbles, Lavie Tidhar introduces the world to Zoltar and Neil Gaiman's Shadder is standing right behind you.
There are heaps of
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February 7, 2012
February 5, 2012
Reason no. 4785 to love Angela Carter
It's nice to be able to go back and read something you had to study for your MA and find that you can now re-read it for enjoyment.
At the moment I have several books on the bedside table, three of them by/about Angela Carter … no, wait four.
Susannah
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The Peripatetic Life of the Freelance Editor: in the Lair with Mr Stephen Jones
Today we have kidnapped the much lauded, applauded and awarded Mr Stephen Jones, editor of such tomes as A Book of Horrors, Zombie Apocalypse!, Shadows Over Innsmouth, and the Mammoth Books of Best New Horror, Vampires, Wolf Men and Zombies, as well as recent
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February 4, 2012
How gorgeous is …
… this?
The cover of Mary Robinette Kowal's latest lovely tome, Glamour in Glass.
*sigh* Divine!
February 2, 2012
New books!
Very happy to find these on the doorstep this morn. 
Angela Carter, hallowed be her name.
February 1, 2012
Meanwhile, over at Clarkesworld …
… the lovely Jeremy L C Jones talks to the equally lovely Lisa L Hannett …
In Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett writes of a place that is, perhaps, somewhere (or nowhere) in the rural United States—a place that is inspired, in equal parts, by
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PhD …
… my Examiners' Reports arrived on Tuesday night – one receommending no changes, the other recommending minor changes.
Meeting with the Most Delightful Supervisors Ever, Viv and Donna, next week to discuss plan of attack.
Huzzah – July graduation and I get the floppy hat.
