Angela Slatter's Blog, page 169

The August Australian Speculative Fiction Blog Carnival Has Taken Up Residence …

… at Nicole Murphy's place.

It's eaten all the cornchips, the chocolate biscuits, the popcorn and it's about to start on the coffee.

See here.

For your listening pleasure …

This gorgeous image from dustjacket attic

Elizabeth Carroll's very lovely, very disturbing "The Duke of Vertumn's Fingerling" is now available for listenification at Podcastle. Go here and make your ears happy.

After I opened my eyes they dressed me in silk. A bone-white gown slipped over my
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So, Torchwood is saving the World from Aliens – Who's saving us from Torchwood?

Charlie's Angels still did it better

Contains spoilers: avert thine eyes.

And so, up until last week – i.e. up to and including episode five of Torchwood: Miracle Day, I was enjoying the series immensely.

It was tightly written, no screamingly noticeable plot holes, it was proceeding logically and intriguingly in
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And lo, I did say unto my hair …

… t'is Friday and I am not leaving the house, so I shalt wash thee but I'm stuffed if I'm going to brush thee.

And lo, my hair did say unto me: I give thee Farrah Fawcett's fringe, circa 1978. Don't mess with me.

And now I am off to
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Interview over at She Never Slept

The lovely folk over at She Never Slept have interviewed me … Marc Nocerino had some questions that made me think!

SNS Minion – Marc Nocerino:  Welcome to She Never Slept, Angela, and thank you for taking some time to spend with our readers. My
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A Sensible Post

It's so nice when someone listens to me! It happens so rarely! The lovely Sharon M Johnston has blogged about being my mentee – well, I was just going to be her manuscript editor, but as I'm trying to give her as much knowledge as I can it seems to have to turned into mentoring.

She talks about how it all
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The Problem Drive-by: Reggie Oliver

The very lovely and award-winning REGGIE OLIVER has been a professional playwright, actor, and theatre director since 1975. Besides plays, his publications include the authorised biography of Stella Gibbons, Out of the Woodshed, published by Bloomsbury in 1998, four collections of strange stories, and a novel, The Dracula
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Blasphemia's Closet Needs You

Just fabulous, go here!

Will my publisher be my publisher forever?

I've been doing some mentoring for a few new writers and find myself passing on information that I am surprised isn't basic knowledge. Then I remind myself that I worked in a writers' centre for three years, so what I take for granted isn't necessarily common knowledge. So,
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The Livings Drive-by, I presume: Martin Livings

Martin Livings is another one of those nice, talented Perth people.  His debut novel, Carnies, was published by Hachette in 2006 and has been optioned as a feature film this year. He's the father of over sixty published short stories, and has been nominated for Aurealis Awards
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