Angela Slatter's Blog, page 159
November 2, 2011
Sourdough competition
… closes tomorrow!
November 1, 2011
T'is the season to be meh …
[image error]Yes, it's that time of the year when EoYM strikes.
That's End of Year Malaise, a term coined many years ago by my old pal and sparring partner, Charlie Sutton. It describes the period from the beginning of November to about the start of the Christmas holiday shutdown, when
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The So Silver, So Bright Drive-by: Lisa Mantchev
Lisa Mantchev is the creator of the glorious Théâtre Illuminata and the unfortgettable Beatrice Shakespeare Smith. She is mum to the Sugar Bean and Tiny Doom, the possessor of an awesome collection of corsets, a hearter of both donuts and danishes, a perspicacious editor and a Damned Fine
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October 30, 2011
You know things are bad when …
[image error]… the advertising on the back of the bus for a book says 'From the publisher of The Girl Who Played with Fire' … apparently the author is truly dead.
Go, Marketing Department! Apparently people are so dumb and lacking in discernment that this will work. WTF?
World Fantasy Award Winners!!
[image error]Congrats to all the World Fantasy Award winners! Special congrats to Alisa Krasnostein, Queen of Twelfth Planet Press!
BEST NOVEL
Winner: Who Fears Death, Nnedi Okorafor (DAW
Zoo City, Lauren Beukes (Jacana South Africa; Angry Robot)
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, N.K. Jemisin (Orbit)
The Silent Land, Graham Joyce (Gollancz; Doubleday)
Under Heaven, Guy Gavriel Kay (Viking
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October 28, 2011
Reminder: win a copy of Sourdough and Other Stories
To celebrate the World Fantasy Awards (and me finally submitting my PhD), I'm giving away a signed copy of Sourdough and Other Stories (which completely coincidentally is shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection).
Just go to the right hand side of the screen and check out
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October 26, 2011
A bumblebee, accessorised
[image error]Well, it seems the PhDoom, aka the Michael Meyers Memorial PhD (it keeps coming back, no matter how many axes or knives you apply to its spine) is done.
My darling supervisors have been wonderful and very patient – much love and props to Drs Viv and Donna for
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Hewing Away the Rough Walls (Or, Five Ways to Put Your Story on a Diet)
Picture not related - just awesome
The ever-clever Lisa Hannett has blogged over at Shimmer on the above topic. She also mentions my favourite Michelangelo story (no, not the one involving the duck and the four melons).
Michelangelo, that Renaissance jack-of-all-trades, is given credit for one of the most famous
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October 25, 2011
I love that …
[image error]… The Washington Post does a feature on the World Fantasy Awards 
.
Yvonne Zipp writes:
Say "World Fantasy Awards," and the uninitiated may imagine fans dressed in homemade chain mail and fake pointy ears. In fact, there's not an elf, dwarf or
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An interesting spot …
… is here.
The Pan Review by author and reviewer Mark Andresen has some clever and informed reviews about a range of books old and new.
Go. Enjoy.
