Angela Slatter's Blog, page 173
July 13, 2011
Reading in Reno (less dangerous than Reading Lolita in Tehran and more fun)
At this year's WorldCon in Reno, the most excellent voice-over artist Bob Kuhn (the voie of Tolkien's Dragon!) will be doing some of us an enormous favour: he'll be doing readings for Aussie and NZ authors who can't make it to the con.
He'll be doing readings for awesome folkd from the HaprerVoyager stable : Fiona
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July 12, 2011
The Ending Drive-by: Deborah Biancotti
Deborah Biancotti is one of Australia's leading lights in the spec-fic scene. This means her short stories are positively luminous and can also be used to light up dark rooms … of course, the stories themselves are pretty dark (The Razor Salesman!!), so the light will be a
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A Book of Horrors News! A Competition! Special Drive-by Fridays! Otters!
And so, you may have noticed (if you're especially perspicacious and of a noticing bent – well done, have a jelly baby) another page has been added to this site. Specifically, t'is a site dedicated to A Book of Horrors, the new anthology edited by uber-editor,
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July 9, 2011
Read Horror: The vampire is not himself
On the emasculation of the vampire … an excellent column by Simon Marshall-Jones over at the wonderful Read Horror.
I remember, many, many years ago now (over 35, if you must know), badgering my mother into buying me one of the now iconic Aurora model kits that
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July 5, 2011
The Wild Drive-by: Elspeth Cooper
Songs of the Earth is the first book of the Wild Hunt series and is also Elspeth Cooper's debut novel. T'is being compared with The Name of Wind and that cannot be a bad thing. US rights have been picked up by Tor and the second and third
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June 30, 2011
Cheeky Frawgs abound
The VanderFrawgs … err, VanderMeers are having an ebook publishing frenzy via Cheeky Frawg – details here.
One of the titles is a lovely collection from Tartarus Press, Women of the Supernatural: A Tartarus Press Sample, which will include the following:
"The Painter of Dead Women"
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June 28, 2011
Moving House
Oy.
I'm moving house and if I never see another box of stuff or ancient dust bunny under recently moved furniture I will be a happy writer.
I've been in a three bedroom house for almost 8 years and it's amazing how much crap-collecting this encourages. Previously, I've moved every
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The Shallows Drive-by: Favel Parrett
Favel Parrett, quite apart from possessing an awesome writerly name, is also an awesome writer. And a lovely person. Favel was a participant in one of the first QWC-Hachette Manuscript Development Programs in 2008 and the very beautiful Past the Shallows is the novel that got her into the
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Thanks, Rick Kleffel
Wow, Mr K's Agony Column has a lovely, lovely review of Sourdough and Other Stories.
Our world is wrought not from atoms and molecules, but emotion and vision. Colors are not the result of wavelengths and photons, but feelings and intuitions. The soil we walk upon is not dirt; it is our memories, layered with love
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June 25, 2011
Best Font Ever
I don't know from whence it came originally, but I stole it from Dr Tansy and she got it from Dr Helen Merrick – it comes from Doctors, it must be legit! 
