Angela Slatter's Blog, page 153
January 16, 2012
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.
January 5, 2012
.Love this painting
We've become the custodians of this painting by artist Jeff Service. We just need to find a spot for it.
I love the colours, the fantasy landscape, how the moon seems to glow.
January 4, 2012
January 3, 2012
China Miéville in Da Lair
Greetings and welcome, one and all, to the inaugural Lair of the Evil Drs Brain, where we "invite" (i.e. conduct virtual kidnappings of) other writers and artists for a chat (which occurs right after they stop demanding to be released and saying 'Who are you and why I am in
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