Angela Slatter's Blog, page 180
April 18, 2011
Year's Best Australian Fantasy and Horror anthology – ToC
Oh my, the cover is so gorgeous I feel quite weak at the knees!
Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene, the eds, have done a fabulous job and the ToC is really rather swoonworthy!
RJ Astruc: "Johnny and Babushka" Peter M Ball: "L'esprit de L'escalier" Alan Baxter: "The King's Accord" Jenny
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April 17, 2011
Australian Shadows Awards 2011
The 2011 Australian Shadows Awards winners have been announced and I'm extremely happy to say that the Duchess of Darkness, Kirstyn McDermott, has won the short fiction category for her story 'She Said'.
Bob Franklin took out the long fiction category for Under Stones, his debut collection and Macabre was the edited publication winner for Angela Challis and Marty Young.
Ze official announcement
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April 13, 2011
World Fantasy Convention 2013
There will be a World Fantasy Convention in 2013. It will be in Brighton.
I will be going.
See you there.
Sure, November in Britain at the seaside isn't everyone's cup of tea … but that's what warm, toasty, beer-filled bars are for.
More info lives here.
April 12, 2011
The Postscripts Drive-by: Nick Gevers
Nick Gevers is an influential man in the field of speculative fiction, being both a critic and an editor. He's been a reviewer and columnist for Locus and is the editor of PS Publishing's
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To the Swanconatorium!
Luckily I have raised my head from where it's been buried in my PhD and noticed that next week is Swancon. It's lucky coz I'm going and am on two panels while I'm there:
Fairytales in Today's World with Angela Slatter, Ellen Datlow, Jenny Blackford, Richard Harland, Amanda Pillar,
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April 11, 2011
Book Review of Allison Hewitt Is Trapped
This is one of the books I recently received in the mail and I was interested enough to take a break from my PhD and novel writing to read it.
Allison Hewitt Is Trapped by Madaleine Roux
Debut zombie novel! That is, debut novel about zombies, not written by a zombie.
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April 9, 2011
New Anthology from Coeur de Lion
Coeur de Lion Publishing is bringing out a new anthology of science fiction called Anywhere but Earth. Edited by Keith Stevenson, it will appear late'ish in 2011.
Margo Lanagan 'Yon Horned Moon'
Richard Harland 'An Exhibition of the Plague'
Sean McMullen 'Spacebook'
Lee Battersby 'At The End There Was a Man'
Jason Nahrung 'Messiah on the
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April 5, 2011
The Literary Remains Drive-by: R. B. Russell
Ray Russell is the other half of Tartarus Press. He is a writer, publisher, illustrator and all-round nice guy. His work inlcudes the collections Putting the Pieces in Place and Literary Remains as well as the novella Bloody Baudelaire, all of which have met with
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April 2, 2011
The Writer, Small Press, and eBook Rights: A Dilemma
Here's the thing: no one makes much money from small press in Australia.
Writers don't get rich publishing through small presses, and the small presses are run for love not money. Some of them simply implode after being run by well-meaning and enthusiastic amateurs who don't understand things like
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March 30, 2011
Mammoth Book of Best New Horror #22
How could I forget this? My story, Lavender and Lychgates, from the Sourdough and Other Stories collection has been selected for the latest Mammoth Book of Best New Horror.
#22, no less – longevity much?
The editor is legendary Stephen Jones, and a ToC buddy is the awesome Robert Shearman
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