Angela Slatter's Blog, page 168
August 24, 2011
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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Laaaauuuuunnnnccchhhheeedddd
The Bluegrass Symphony has had a bottle of champers broken over it and is officially launched. Lovely intro by Russell B. Farr, truly glorious speech from the delightful Sean Williams, and a wondrous reading by the author herself, Miz Lisa L Hannett (and her awesome red boots). Great night had by all. Included the final pic to show
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August 19, 2011
Another nice surprise …
First advance author copies of the very lovely The Year's Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene. Publisher Russ had them stashed away and then handed them over to the kids in the candy store last night.
Brain, Jason Fischer, Moi
August 18, 2011
The Sad, Dark Drive-by: Michael Marshall Smith
MMS on the left, Stephen Jones (our mutual editor) on ze right
Michael Marshall Smith writes thrillers under the nom de plume of Michael Marshall – including the international best sellers The Straw Men and The Lonely Dead. He used his full name for horror.
He read Philosophy and Social and
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Cold Feet in Adelaide
So, my feet were frozen last night and I figured 'I'm not going to have cold feet for another 4 days, so I will find the cheapest, crapiest slippers I can find and have warm feet.'
And lo and behold I found these – I look like a tie-dyed Yeti. I may even wear them to the Bluegrass launch.
August 17, 2011
Can't get to the Bluegrass Symphony launch?
No worries – you can get a copy right here.
And you really should get a copy, you know.
T'is Lisa L Hannett's debut collection and it doth rock.
August 16, 2011
The Debut Drive-by: Jaime Lee Moyer
Jaime Lee Moyer lives in San Antonio with writer Marshall Payne, three cats, three guitars and a growing collection of books and music.
Her first novel, DELIA'S SHADOW, will be published by TOR Books in February 2013. Her novels are represented by Tamar Rydzinski of the Laura Dail Literary
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August 15, 2011
The Haunting of Hill House
As part of my post-PhD break (okay, it's actually just a break in between one steaming pile of PhD draft and the next, but an essential part of my cognitive dissonance is telling myself it's a post-PhD break), I'm reading the books I've missed. The ones that people mention and
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