Angela Slatter's Blog, page 165
September 22, 2011
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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New books!
Nice things to happen this week:
1. Death and the Spanish Lady by Carolyn Morwood and brought out by the lovely Pulp Fiction Press.
2. Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #22, edited by Stephen Jones.
September 15, 2011
The Roots and All Drive-by: Brian Hodge
Normally, I cobble together bios for my drive-by victims … but why would I try to write anything other than what the man himself has on his website when it starts with the words 'Bootlegger' and 'International assassin'? His novels include World of Hurt, Hellboy: On Earth
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September 14, 2011
Fumbling towards the PhD
Is me.
I'm in final stage PhDery, fumbling, mumbling, grumbling and scrambling towards the end of it all.
Today I will be breaking a cardinal rule and using my write club time to produce the Conclusion to the reflective essay. Pete will yell at me, coz write club time is
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September 13, 2011
And another lovely review of Sourdough and Other Stories
… by Paul Charles Smith – over here. 'Empty you heart of its mortal dream' – that title should have a story attached to it! Mmmmmm.
Tartarus Press is a publisher best known for its lavish reprints of old obscure and out of print collections of supernatural,
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The Vend Drive-by: James Findlay
A graduate of the University of New South Wales Media Communications Degree, James Findlay has written and directed a variety of short films and documentaries over the years. His horror short, ZZZZ, screened in festivals around Australia and the UK, winning the Audience Award at the 2004 Eyescream
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September 11, 2011
A Book of Horrors
Just a reminder that A Book of Horrors will be launched at Fantasy Con in Brighton on 1.10.11. There will be signings. There will be booky goodness.
And there will be a competition run on this site for a signed copy of A Book of Horrors. Keep an eye
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September 8, 2011
Before I head off into PhDery …
… a word from Sean Williams about indie press over at the lovely Fablecroft.
It seems strange now that there was ever a time when small press was thin on the ground in Australia, but in the early nineties publishers big and small had pretty much abandoned the field.
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