Angela Slatter's Blog, page 181
March 30, 2011
Calling All Hambly Fans
Go here to check out Open Road's author profile of the awesome and prolific Barbara Hambly. There is a video also!
When I teach …
… this is the stuff I tell you not to do.
March 28, 2011
Justice – an absolute freaking JOKE
A 190cm police officer beats the proverbial out of his 160cm wife and gets a $2000 fine. Oh, sure he won't do it again, he's sorry.
I think my favourite line is:
Westergerling's lawyer applied for a spent conviction order, arguing a conviction would unfairly impact on both his career with the police force and work as a model.
Big man didn't
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March 27, 2011
The Sad Tale Drive-by: Jesse Bullington
As well as being possessed of an impressive moustache and a shoulder ferret, Jesse Bullington is also in possession of a prodigious writing talent. His debut novel from Orbit, The Sad Tale of the Brothers Grossbart, sent two nutters off on crusade and met with the proverbial rave
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March 26, 2011
March 24, 2011
On Approaching Authors for 'Stuff'
Most writers you approach are pretty nice. They're collegial and willing to help newbies along the road. They'll sign things. They'll do interviews. They'll answer craft questions. They'll point you in the right direction – like to a good writers centre.
Requests from newbies, sometimes overstep the bounds, either
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New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing
Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl
(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter's The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue's Kissing the Witch.)
'Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for
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A wowie-kazowie review over at Crikey (no less)
A truly fabulous review of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales* by guest reviewer Lyndon Riggall on Angela Meyer's LiteraryMinded blog (she who is Queen of the Bloggeist). Thus, I do snoopy dance.
Snippet:
For those of you who will read The Girl With No Hands I will
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March 23, 2011
For those of you in Sydney with time on your hands …
… just over 8 minutes to be precise, why not go along to the screening of Sisters at the Night of Horror Film Festival?
The session is taking place at Metro Screen, Paddington Town Hall (Cnr Oxford Street and Oatley Road, Paddington), Wednesday, April 6, at 6:30pm. Sisters will be screening in competition for: "Audience Choice Award: Best Australian Short Film".
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