Angela Slatter's Blog, page 168
August 29, 2011
I can't get an agent! What do I do?
You've got a few choices:
1. Be your own agent. You'll need to be up on legalese and contract-speak, advances and rights, so think carefully whether you want to spent a lot of your energy on this side of the business.
2. Keep looking for an agent in a Pollyanna'ish attack of optimism. Don't despair – the right agent may just come
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Nice reviews
Interesing idea from Hugh McGuire: An Open, Webby, Book-Publishing Platform
Over at O'Reilly Radar, Hugh McGuire talks about using WordPress as a book publishing platform.
Over at
Over at Dagan Books, they are telling us about the:
6 Mistakes People Make In Their Cover Letters (FISH anthology edition)
28 Aug
When submitting a story to Dagan Books, authors often make one of several common errors, not in the story itself, but in the accompanying email. While these mistakes rarely
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August 25, 2011
The Coffin-maker's Drive-by: Angela Slatter
Oh, honestly, you know what I look like!
To save me from the ignominy of talking to myself, Stephen Jones kindly asked me questions. Here's the opening of "The Coffin-Maker's Daughter", which is my A Book of Horrors story.
The door is a rich red wood, heavily carved with improving
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August 24, 2011
Lisa Hannett does a cameo over at Shimmer!
Lisa's story "Gutted" recently appeared in one of my favourite magazines, the very lovely Shimmer. To go with the story, she wrote a blog post entitled Short Story Collections: Gathering Places for Infinite Worlds.
Imagine yourself at a party.
Not just any old party. There are no paper hats with
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The Hall of Lost Footsteps
This is the long-awaited short story collection of the lovely Sara Douglass.
The Hall of Lost Footsteps is available for pre-order from Ticonderoga Publications.
You know you want it.
In the brief period of bliss before …
… I must return to editing the PhD and incorporating feedback, I am taking the opportunity to cram in some reading for pleasure. So I have the last two gorgeous chapbooks from Simon Marshall-Jones' Spectral Press, Nowhere Hall by Cate Gardner and Abolisher of Roses by Gary Fry. Got part-way through the latter on the bus ride home.
Stand-by for mini-reviews.
Both distressing and depressing
I've run the gamut of emotions about this – most of them elicited profanity.
Why take away a magazine from a super successful editor?
File this under WTF.
August 20, 2011
Interesting post over at Salon.com
Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen in the new Snow White flick
From Emma Mustich over at Salon.com talks to the legendary Jack Zipes regarding the latest crop of fairy tale-inspired films. Be nice if someone bought one of my fairy tales and made it into a movie –
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