Angela Slatter's Blog, page 165
September 26, 2011
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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September 25, 2011
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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September 22, 2011
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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Things of beauty!
Much happiness today when the mail arrived:
T'is the catalogue from Nicolas Granger-Taylor's latest exhibition.
Astonishing talent, beautiful, beautiful art!
There is a reason Barry Humphries owns NGT's work!
September 21, 2011
Over at Innsmouth Free Press …
The lovely E. Catherine Tobler has a story in the forthcoming Candle in the Attic Windowby Innsmouth Free Press. Here, she chats about "The Snow Man".
The dream was always the same, except when it wasn't.
The season was cold, fog stretching low across every hill
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September 20, 2011
The Ill at Ease Drive-by: Mark West
Mark West is a nice man (which seems to run in the British horror scene – interestingly enough). His titles include In The Rain With The Dead (from Pendragon Press), Strange Tales (Rainfall Books), Conjure (again with Rainfall Books) and ill at ease (PenMan Press). His novelette "The
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