Angela Slatter's Blog, page 160
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.
The Arkham Drive-by: Bob Weinberg
Bob Weinberg on the left, Harlan Ellison on the right.
Sometimes you don't need to say much when introducing a drive-by victim This is one of those times: Bob Weinberg, writer, editor, collector, and the dad of the legendary Arkham House.
1. The inspiration for Arkham House was …In 1939,
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I'm not a gamer, but …
… the Significant Other is and I must say this trailer that's been made for Skyrim is pretty freaking awesome.
October 24, 2011
Sweet mother of crap
[image error]I am STILL – AGAIN – reworking PhD minor rewrites and I swear all I'm doing is polishing a turd.
I would throw myself on my eighteenth century fainting couch and howl, but Mr Hanky already got there.
*despairs*
