Angela Slatter's Blog, page 170

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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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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