Angela Slatter's Blog, page 162
October 11, 2011
Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #3: Christine Bongers
[image error]Christine Bongers has worked as a broadcast journalist on the ABC, and in commercial television and radio, in Brisbane and London. She has also written and directed two environmental television documentaries, and run her own media consultancy.
Christine's first attempt at writing fiction was short-listed for the Varuna Manuscript
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October 10, 2011
Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #2: Linda Brucesmith
Linda Brucesmith is a Brisbane-based writer and public relations consultant.
Her public relations business and clients have provided her with unique perspectives on tourism, hospitality, food, horticulture, medicine, mining, dance, academia, media and the internet. She has worked as a magazine and newspaper journalist in Sydney, Melbourne,
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October 9, 2011
Queensland Writers Week Drive-by #1: Charlotte Nash-Stewart
Up and comer Charlotte Nash-Stewart is a new writer to look out for; her work is lyrical, disturbing and constantly challenging (in a good way). By day she is the Word Engineer, by night she's the fiction stalker.
1. I first knew I was a writer when
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Jacaranda Time
On the bus this morning I noticed the jacaranda trees all in lovely bloom along Coronation Drive. Made me a bit homesick for my giant jacaranda tree in the backyard at the old house. Is it wrong if I go and visit it?
October 7, 2011
If you only listen to one Writer & Critic this year …
… make it this one – Kirstyn and Ian talk about Lisa Hannett's Bluegrass Symphony and Robert Shearman's Everyone's Just So So Special.[image error]
Win a hard cover copy of A Book of Horrors
Okay, so now that this beautiful, disturbing book has been launched at FantasyCon in Brighton last weekend, it's time to run this competition. T'will run for a week from today.
The all important question is located here – to the right of the page, over, over, there!
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October 6, 2011
Today, I try an experiment
Thursdays and Fridays are my stay-at-home-and-write days. My normal process is to have breakfast with Significant Other, wave him off to work, yell at the eejits on morning tv for about 30 mins before I turn tv off in disgust and toss the remote somewhere it will later
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Cheeky Frawgs and Honey
Squeee!
The Cheeky Frawg ebook empire has officially released Amal El-Mohtar's wonderful The Honey Month.
It can be found here.
Other titles will be coming soon, including:
The Troika by Stepan Chapman (novel)
ODD? edited by Ann & Jeff VanderMeer
It Came From the North: Finnish Weird Fiction, vols. 1—3 edited by
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October 5, 2011
Is it wrong that …
… on the bus ride home from doing the groceries I glanced out the window and saw a workman with his head down an access hole in the footpath, legs and bum in the air … and all I could do was hope with an intense hope to see tentacles rising up out of said hole and pulling him in?
No
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For your listening pleasure
The delightful and talented Bob Kuhn, who did readings for a bunch of Australian and NZ authors at the WorldCon in Reno this year was kind enough to record my story 'Skin'.
So lovely to hear someone else reading out my work!
You may listen to
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