Angela Slatter's Blog, page 152
January 16, 2012
Woot – first sale of 2012!
Very happy to announce that Lisa Hannett's and my story "Prohibition Blues" has sold to Liz and Amanda at Ticonderoga Publications for the awesome and upcoming anthology Damnation and Dames.
There are shoes, werewolves, the Charleston, feathers, chases through swamps, folk with mixed human-Fae blood who can do some marvellous
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And SQUEEEEE!
Over at Lisa Hannett's place, there are no less than THREE awesome reviews of Bluegrass Symphony! As it should be.
Ten stars from Scary Minds, no less!
A milestone of sorts
Sourdough and Other Stories, my beautiful limited edition hard cover from Tartarus Press has sold out!
It's a bit like your kid growing up and leaving home.
Watch this space …
January 10, 2012
January 9, 2012
Tuesday Therapy with Drs Hannett and Goss
Over at Lisa's place, Theodora Goss talks about stubborn stories and how to deal with them.
More excellent Tuesday Therapy.
Place as Person – my two cents
Over at Mary Victoria's, I talk about Place as Person in the next installment of this great series; I also drink all the coffee and eat the last 2 chocolate biscuits.
You know me – just like the Dr, never let me talk.
An essential ingredient of story is the
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January 8, 2012
Over at Weird Fiction Review, which has returned from hols with a tan …
… Elwin Cotman writes about Yoshiaki Kawajiri's Urban Hells.
A wide shot of four skyscrapers, pitch-black silhouettes. The camera pans back, revealing the clouds that cling insignificantly to the buildings, while below the city spreads out endlessly. It is daytime. It will be night soon enough. Over the ambient soundtrack,
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Place as Person over at The Chronicles of the Tree
The lovely Mary Victoria is running a series of guest post about how places can be characters in their own right in book.
Her first guest is Joshua Palmatier (AKA Benjamin Tate, author of Leaves of Flame).
Go here for readage.
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