Angela Slatter's Blog, page 164

A Book of Horrors – in my hot little paws!

Here it is! A Book of Horrors!

My author's copies.

The hard cover is particularly awesome .

From Quercus Books new Jo Fletcher imprint!

Being launched this weekend at Brighton.

And yes, I wear cat's ears now. Cat's ears are cool.

The Lair of the Evil Drs Brain

So, what is the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain?

Basically it's Lisa Hannett and I talking to each other and other people about stuff. Writing stuff.

Topics will include:

Steampunkery
Fairytaleosity
Phat Phantasy
Where you write and how you get in the mood?
Should a muumuu by mandatory for blogging?
What happens when
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The Good Science Fiction Drive-by: Gardner Dozois

Seriously?

Do I really need to introduce Gardner Dozois? The Gardner Dozois? Really? The multi Hugo and Nebula winning science fiction editor or author? The frequently partnering Jack Dann in crime of some sort Gardner Dozois?

Really?

All I will say is that he prefers donuts, dunked.

1. What's the best thing
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Sad News

Aussie writer Sara Douglass lost her battle with cancer and died early this morning.

Sara was a very talented writer, an international best-seller and a great contributor to the world's book spirit.

She will be missed.

I polished a story for her upcoming collection, The Hallway of Lost Footsteps, about a
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Meanwhile, over at Writing Excuses

This is a great noise-pod – one day, Virginia, you too may earn yourself a writing assistant! No, you may not use them to send flowers to your mum or buy tasteless apology scarves for your wife/husband. So, writing assistants and what they do.

Peter Ahlstrom, assistant to
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Thing of interest

Today's thing of interest is Gio Clairval's post over here about participating in the VanderMeer's latest gigantic project, The Weird.

THE WEIRD: I have participated in one of the largest thematic anthology projects of all time, and I'm still alive!

I translated for this anthology:


Julio Cortazar, "Axolotl," 1956
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Just finished reading the latest of my Shirley Jackson collection, We Have Always Lived in the Castle.

OMG. Maybe even more brilliant that The Haunting of Hill House. Poison. Crazy folk. Villagers with torches and pitchforks. Oh my!

'In this village the men stayed young and did the gossiping and
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At long last

Here it is, the damned thing. All bound and delivered to the postgrad office, with only one minor heart attack when I found the doors of said office closed. This is, of course, not the end. There will be final seminar in three weeks, then adding or subtracting
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Why did I not have a doll's house like this?

Most glorious thing in the world from Marc Giai-Miniet.

Thanks to Lisa Hannett for the link to Fireflies in the Labyrinth, which is where I started the linky journey to this.

And now I am going back to the labyrinth to chase fireflies.

 

The Last Words Drive-by: Richard Christian Matheson

American writer Richard Christian Matheson is a master of horror fiction and screenplays, a drummer, an expert on the occult and a paranormal researcher. His short story collections include Scars and Other Distinguishing Marks and Dystopia.  His debut novel Created By was a Bram Stoker nominee. He has
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