Angela Slatter's Blog, page 166

Squeeee!

Twelfth Planet Press will be opening, briefly, for novel submissions! TPP, the punchy indie press is home to Peter M. Ball's Bleed and Horn, Tansy Rayner Roberts' Love and Romanpunk, Lucy Sussex's Thief of Lives … and to editor and publisher Alisa Krasnostein, who is a World Fantasy
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The Ditch Drive-by: Lisa Tuttle

American-born, UK-based Lisa Tuttle is writer of science fiction, fantasy, and horror as well as an editor and reviewer. She was the 1974 winner of the John W. Campbell Award for Best New Writer, won the 1989 BSFA Award for Short Fiction for "In Translation", and the 2007
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Yesterday in Maleny

Yesterday, I was due to do a reading at the Outspoken festival in Maleny (thanks to Steven Lang for the invite and Kate Eltham for the recommendation!), so Significant Other and I jumped in the car mid-afternoon for the drive up the Bruce Highway. Coz we
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The Broken Drive-by: Stephen M. Irwin

Stephen M. Irwin is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction and an award-winning director and screenwriter – Car Pool won Best Comedy at the 2007 St Kilda Film Festival and in 2008 Ascension won Best Short, Sci-Fi London. His first novel, The Dead Path, was named a Top
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Sweet! Infinite Adaptations …

Happy-happy-joy-joy! In today's mail is the latest WQ magazine – the Adaptation issue.

My excitement? Is caused by seeing the article I wrote about the enduring power of fairy tales.

Critic and writer Marina Warner says that old storytellers used to finish their stories with: 'This is the tale
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Sunday afternoon listening

I just found out that the interview I did with Ion Newcombe in a dark and cold alley outside the Independant Theatre in Sydney after the Aurealis Awards in May. The bonus is that you also get to listen to some wonderful flash fiction and interviews with Jason
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Karen Miller on Why Bad is so much Better when it comes to fiction

The lovely and talented Karen Miller (her latest tome is to the left) has blogged for Orbit on Why Bad is so much Better when it comes to fiction.

So, two of my all-time favourite fictional characters aren't actually in books, but on screen. And they were both created
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Abolisher of Roses by Gary Fry

Part of my almost-done-with-the-PhD-treat is reading things that don't involve Proust or Salaman or Cixous or anything else that has the potential to send me to sleep while broadening my mind. Okay, that's unfair on Salaman, she's delightful and lovely to read … but Proust I would like to choke with
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I answered some questions for Jildy Sauce …

… a lot about fairy tales and some about writing process and I also give the (only partially facetious) executive summary for writers wanting to be published. Thanks for asking, Paul Kane .

The author of the magnificent mosaic, Sourdough and Other
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The Behind the Plastic Sheet Drive-by: Robert Shearman

Serious writer face

I've driven-by  Mr Shearman before and he survived. Obviously it wasn't too terrible, because he lined up again when I nagged, errr, asked nicely. What can I say, other than he is one of my favourite people and one of my favourite writers. His
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