Angela Slatter's Blog, page 170

Sunshine-y!

At home sick with the lurgy, but at least the lovely flowers Brain sent last week to help kick the PhD along are still bright and shiney.

You can see the PhD mess piled around them, and the re-run of Torchwood: Miracle Day on the teev. Also, copies of
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Outspoken: a series of conversations with writers

On 7 September, I'll be doing a reading at one of the Outspoken events at Maleny.

More importantly, Ann Patchett will be 'in conversation' after I do my reading .

Ms Patchett is the author of five novels: the New York Times bestselling Run; The Patron Saint of Liars, which was a New York Times Notable
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Sparks

The lovely Kaaron Warren asked me about the spark of one of my stories – any story! So I chose Sourdough.

Angela Slatter's stories display a vision of the world which is a slight shift away from reality. I love that. Slatterworld is lyrical and full of
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The Getting It Wrong Drive-by: Ramsey Campbell

I do not blithely throw the word 'legendary' around, so you know Ramsey Campbell deserves it.

The Inhabitant of the Lake and Less Welcome Tenants, his first collection was published in 1964 by the Arkham House imprint. His novels have included the wonderfully named The Doll Who Ate His
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Over at Read Horror

Changing Perceptions of Horror – a great article by Simon Marshall-Jones, he of the awesome Spectral Press.

There are two reasons why I am where I am now: first, I have a very deep love of genre literature, in particular horror. What got me reading in the first place
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Send Charles Tan Away!

A World SF travel fund has been set up by awesome folk such as Lavie Tidhar and Cheryl Morgan to send one person per year to a major SF event. This year the inaugural recipient will be the wonderful, super energetic Bibliophile Stalker and
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Something wise snurched from China Miéville's Rejectamentalist Manifesto

'A principal rule for writers, and especially those who want to describe their own sensations, is not to believe that their doing so indicates they possess a special disposition of nature in this respect. Others can perhaps do it just as well as you can. Only they do not make a business of it, because it seems to them silly
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The Tangled Drive-by: Chris Lynch

Chris Lynch is a writer, editor, reviewer, critic, poet, teacher and photographer. He is a Clarion South survivor from 07. Clarions affect everyone differently – some get tattoos, dye their hair, leaves their partners, others give up writing altogether – Chris walked across Japan. He is writing a
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From over at Nonsuch

Read this this morning, Sara Douglass on "The Silence of Dying". Much food for thought.

Many years ago I did an hour long interview on Adelaide radio (with Jeremy Cordeaux, I think, but my memory may be wrong). The interview was supposed to promote one of my recent publications, but for some reason we quickly strayed onto the subject of death
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And this morning I woke up to …

…  to a LOT of emails telling me that Sourdough and Other Stories has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.

Which was awesome, because look at the other folk in the category:

Best Collection

What I Didn't See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The
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