Angela Slatter's Blog, page 166
September 20, 2011
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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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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