Angela Slatter's Blog, page 184
March 12, 2011
Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror
Paula Guran has announced the ToC for the 2011 Year's Best Dark Fantasy & Horror … and Brisneyland by Night got a berth!!
Snoopy dancing? Who? Me? Maybe a little …
Look at those names on the cover … Hells, yeah, I iz snoopy dancing!
Margo Lanagan, Holly Black, Caitlín R.
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March 11, 2011
Woot – Honorable Mentions
Ellen Datlow has posted her list of Honorable Mentions and I was lucky enough to get quite a few mentions. Especially happy to have a mention for The February Dragon, the collaboration betwixt moi and Brain. Am also very happy to see mentions for the likes of Robert Shearman, Kaaron Warren, Kirstyn McDermott, Jenny Blackford, Jason Fischer, Felicity Dowker, Dan
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March 8, 2011
The Jones Drive-by: Stephen Jones
Few things are more frightening than an awesomely put-together horror anthology … except, possibly, the person who puts said anthology together. Coz I mean, really, dude! The brain that can put together a labyrinth of fear is awesome indeed. In the annals of editors, legendary status affixes to
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March 3, 2011
Scalzi on Bear on Being Fictional
Great post here by John Scalzi commenting on Elizabeth Bear's post on dealing with the idea people have of you as a writer – i.e. they've never met you, but have an idea in their head about who you are based on your writing. It's the idea of
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Scalzi on Bear Being Fictional
Great post here by John Scalzi commenting on Elizabeth Bear's post on dealing with the idea people have of you as a writer – i.e. they've never met you, but have an idea in their head about who you are based on your writing. It's the idea of
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March 2, 2011
Angry Robot – not so angry
March 2011 is open-door month at Angry Robot.
In March 2011 we will be accepting submissions from unagented authors for the first time. The clock starts ticking on March 1st, and we close the doors again on March 31st. If things go well we might repeat the
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March 1, 2011
Hello, Alan Kelly
Hi, Alan.
You emailed me via the contact form asking for an interview … I said 'Yea, verily yea' … alas, the email address bounced. I tried a couple of times, but still no luck.
So, anyway, didn't ignore you! Still happy to answer questions if you want to get in touch.
Cheers.
Angela 
The Kill Devil Hill Drive-by: Ace Jordan
The short film, like the short story, is an artform of making the most out of the least. Hollywood bells and whistles are generally not available to the maker of the short film, so it's harder to cover up plot holes with loud noises, special effects and flashing
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February 24, 2011
In which there is Shadowy Snoopy Dancing
The short list for the 2010 Australian Shadows Award has been released and it's awesome to see names of some very talented friends there, including Peter M. Ball, Kirstyn McDermott, Liz Gryzb and Felicity Dowker.
I was lucky enough to get two mentions, one in Long Fiction for The Girl with No Hands and Other Stories (Ticonderoga Publications) and one in
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February 23, 2011
Oh, please go here and listen!
Lisa L. Hannett's Bluegrass Symphony is out this year.
As a treat (read: teaser) she's uploaded a reading of part of one her stories! Minotaurs and wolves, oh my!
'The Short Go: A Future in Eight Seconds' appears in the second half of the book, but I thought I'd
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