Angela Slatter's Blog, page 150
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.
January 31, 2012
Books by friends
Very, very happy to get these two books by very dear and talented friends of mine: Berzoo by Errol Bray (Clouds of Magellan) and Thrill Seekers by Edwina Shaw (Ransom)!
In the mail …
… two new books. Huzzah!
*happy*
This is Kelly Link
Got a call from QWC yesterday to say that they'd had some places
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open up in the Kelly Link workshop … huzzah! Thank you to the people who dropped out!
You never stop
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January 30, 2012
January 29, 2012
Really good advice from Sarah Pinborough
Great and simple advice from Brit Sarah P. My favourite bit?
This one:
1 – Don't waste time on envy. You're only in competition with yourself. It's a long road and just use others' successes to inspire you or make you raise your game. It's a happier way to live.
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Day one, writer
So today is my first day as a full time writer.
I've spent the last four days in a frenzy of sleep, reading, and playing so much Skyrim that it will be a fortnight before I can even look at an Eleven Warmhammer of Malediction again.
Today, I am ready,
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