Angela Slatter's Blog, page 179
May 5, 2011
Aurealis Awards – got your ticket yet?
Mmmm? Well, do you?
Go get one – details are here. Garth Nix is the ring master for the event and anyone who saw him host the Hugos in Melbourne last year at WorldCon will know that's a sight to behold.
So come along on Saturday 21 May
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May 3, 2011
The Graceling Drive-by: Kristin Cashore
I first noticed Kristin Cashore when I was sent Graceling and Fire as review copies. My first thought was 'Awesome covers' – which they are, beautiful artwork, lovely layout, excellent ways of catching a reader's wandering eye. The stories are engaging, the characters interesting, the
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May 2, 2011
2010 Nightmare Award
The lovely Sarah from She Never Slept has handed out her 2010 Nightmare Awards and Sourdough and Other Stories in the Best Shorts Stories/Poetry Collections category.
Woot!
May 1, 2011
Makes coffee better …
… coz the mugs are bigger on the outside than the inside.
April 27, 2011
Purdy!
My Significant Other, not content with re-designing this site, then designed some business cards for me. He is, in short, awesome-di-awesome.
There are eight different ones, each with a line from some of my stories. 
April 26, 2011
The Wondering Drive-by: Sharon M. Johnston
Sharon M. Johnston is one of Australia's new voices. She's a talented YA author and active blogger over at http://downunderwonderings.blogspot.com/. Keep an eye out for her work! Here she decides between donuts and danishes, threatens to spit ball Lady Catherine de Bourgh (boo-rah!), and talks about the joys of
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April 23, 2011
Dear Hotel
Dear Crowne Plaza Perth,
I have stayed many times in your sister hotel in Melbourne and, right up until a few hours ago, I was enjoying staying with you.
Imagine, if you will, my surprise to find my credit card – which I ensured was paid off before I left Brisneyland – was being declined this morning when I attempted to purchase
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April 19, 2011
And Hello Pittsburgh!
The short film, Sisters, has been selected for the Pittsburgh Horror Film Festival!!
The festival will e run at the Monroeville Convention Center this June 3rd, 4th, and 5th June – so if you're in Pittsburgh with time on your hands and a need to be afraid, be very afraid, head on over!
The Lakeside Drive-by: Christopher Green
I knew of Christopher Green via my write club buddy Peter M. Ball. Chris was a fellow Clarion South graduate (2007 iteration), but I didn't read anything of his until 'Lakeside'. We both had stories in Jack Dann's Dreaming Again and Chris's story was the first one I
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April 18, 2011
Reading and loving …
… The Razor Gate by Sean Cregan.
It's another one of the books in the mail (thank you, Headline) and it's awesome. Tightly plotted, fast paced, engaging, a tale of a new kind of serial killer meeting nanotechnology. I see a piece of promo on t'internetz calls it an
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