Angela Slatter's Blog, page 173
July 20, 2011
How have I missed this?
I don't know how I missed this, but consider myself dreadfully remiss. Brain (Lisa L Hannett) did a post on fairy tale girls, which is great. And here in all its clever glory.
A sample:
Lately, I've been thinking about fairy tales.
There was a fantastic panel
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July 19, 2011
The Naked Drive-by: Bella Vendramini
And now for something completely different. We leave the field of spec-fic for a day and peak into the world of actress and author, Bella Vendramini. Nakd in Public is the follow-up to her best-selling debut Biting the Big Apple. I think the press release says
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July 18, 2011
Sale!
This morning I sent a new story, "Winter Children", to PS Publishing.
This evening the kindly gents purchased it for their Postscripts anthology.
*snoopy dancing*
July 17, 2011
Kapow! Thwack! Zok!
One of the things I am constantly at pains to get students and new writers to understand is the physics of your characters' actions. That is: can they physically do what you're telling the reader they are doing? He scratched his backside with his right hand, while
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July 14, 2011
The Girl with No Hands and Kindling
Wait, that sounds wrong. And dangerous.
What I'm trying to say is that The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Aurealis Awarded for 2010 Best Collection) is now available as an ebook … or at least as one for the Kindle.
It can be purchased here for
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The Near Zennor Drive-by: Elizabeth Hand
Elizabeth Hand was kind enough to do a drive-by a few months back. Now she's back to answer random horror-related questions. Her contribution to A Book of Horrors, Near Zennor, is one of the novellas in the anthology (there are seven short
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July 13, 2011
Favourite image this week
We watched Torchwood: Miracle Day the other night and it contained my fave image in a long, long time:
Gwen Cooper, Warrior Mum, fully equipped with a look that says 'You're endangering my child and pissing me off. That you continue to do this makes it blatantly obvious that you are not cognizant of the fact that I have a very
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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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