Angela Slatter's Blog, page 6
September 21, 2023
In my hot little hands
My Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novella arrived!
What a pretty thing it is – both a functioning sundial and compass.
August 14, 2023
The secret is out: Celsius 232
I’m so very delighted to announce that I’ll be a guest at Celsius 232 next year in Avilés, Spain!
Can’t wait for my first trip ever to Spain and to discuss books with readers!
August 7, 2023
The Flensing Factory Re-opens
So, the Flensing Factory is open once more, with different offerings. Click for details.
July 26, 2023
Miss Lulu
I’m reposting this here as I know not everyone’s across all the social media forms, but I also know a lot of folk have followed the adventures of the house doggoes. And I’m writing this now because I don’t think I’ll be able to do it tonight. CW for pet death.We are having A Day.Our darling girl, Miss Lulu, Madame, the Irish Terror, the Tartlet, Slinky Malinky, Lulu McGoo, Miss Bug, Little Heart, the Turdburger, Wicked Little Dog, Her Royal Naughtiness will be crossing the rainbow bridge tonight.
We are all devastated, but it’s time to let her go with love and grace. She’s almost 14, which is a great and venerable age for an IT. She’s had a wonderful life and given so much joy to her dads and me and everyone who met her. Well, maybe not some of the dogs who didn’t meet her exacting standards. She did love people though, and embraced her weirdo little brother Johnny the beagle when he moved in (“He might be a weirdo but he’s my weirdo!”) 
When she was about 4 months old, Ron brought her over to my old house for dinner; she was all legs and snoot and so timid. She hid under the dining table until I gave her a piece of rib fillet. I don’t think she’s ever forgotten that. When I came to live here, she just accepted me. “Well, of course you’re here, now pat me behind my ears while I sit on your feet.”
It’s been a hard couple of months and Ron and Stephen have done everything they could for her, but it’s time. She is absolutely adored and will be forever The Very Best Wicked Little Dog with the Very Best Dads and a Not Bad Random Aunt Who Came to Live with Her.
Spare a thought for her today, the world will be a dimmer place.
July 18, 2023
Cover Reveal: The Briar Book of the Dead
I’m so happy! You might be able to hear the delighted squeeeeeing. That’s me looking at the cover for The Briar Book of the Dead, which is coming out in Feb of 2024 from Titan Books. Did I mention it’s available for pre-order?
Ellie is the first non-witch in three hundred years to born into a family of witches – the Briars who rule Silverton and hold the border against the Darklands. But Ellie discovers she’s got another altogether unexpected power and she’s going to need all the help she can get as the world of the Briars begins to come apart at the seams.
This will be my third book for Titan, set in the world of the Sourdough, Bitterwood and Tallow-Wife collections (Tartarus Press). It has some connection to my novella Of Sorrow and Such (Tor.com), but you don’t need to have read the novella to enjoy Briar Book (but it definitely won’t hurt if you have!).
July 15, 2023
The Bone Lantern won a Shirley Jackson Award!!!
Photo by JS Breukelaar
Well, does what it says on the tin, I guess.
I woke up this morning to a variety of texts and social media taggings to say that my weird little novella, The Bone Lantern, has won the Shirley Jackson for Best Novella.
Absolutely surreal!
A huge congrats to all the finalists and winners, and to the judges and organisers for all their hard work. Much love to JS Breukelaar for collecting the award for me at ReaderCon and reading my speech!
And thanks once again to the lovely Marie O’Regan for commissioning The Bone Lantern for PS Publishing’s Absinthe Imprint, and to Daniele Serra for that glorious cover!
Full lists are here.
July 13, 2023
In-Conversation: Castle Full of Blackbirds
We are go for the Castle Full of Blackbirds in-conversation at Brisbane Square Library!This is my Hellboy Universe collaboration with @artofmm with art by @valeria_burzo, published by @darkhorsecomics.Tuesday 25 July 2023 6pm for a 6.30 start – details and booking link are here https://www.brisbane.qld.gov.au/…/meet-angela-slatter…The event is FREE but you do need to do the booking thing so we know how many folk are coming along. Aimee Lindorff will be asking me anything and everything – I might even answer.Pulp Fiction Booksellers will have copies for sale on the night.PS: there will also be a few very early release copies of my new collection from Brain Jar Press – The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings. Just saying… 
June 21, 2023
Shirley Jackson Awards
It’s that time of year and I’m so excited to see that The Bone Lantern has been nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award in the novella category! It’s a squeeeee moment because when I first read The Haunting of Hill House and We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I could never have dreamed of being on a shortlist like this – so I’m pinching myself hard enough to draw blood just in case I’m dreaming!
And I mean, jeeeeeez, look at this list!!
NOVELLA
The Bone Lantern by Angela Slatter (PS Publishing)
Bound Feet by Kelsea Yu (Cemetery Gates Media)
Catastrophe by Deirdre Danklin (Texas Review Press)
Lure by Tim McGregor (Tenebrous Press)
Pomegranates by Priya Sharma (PS Publishing)
The Wehrwolf by Alma Katsu (Amazon Original Stories)
A huge thanks to the judges and organisers, and special thanks and major hugs to Marie O’Regan for commissioning this weird little story for the Absinthe Books imprint of PS Publishing. And eternal gratitude to Daniele Serra for that glorious cover!
The Bone Lantern is set in the Sourdough world, just so you know … and has links to the novels All the Murmuring Bones and The Path of Thorns, as well as the Sourdough, Bitterwood and Tallow-Wife collections … and the teeny-tiny chapbook No Good Deed (the ebook of which you can download for free here).
The full shortlists are here – and oh my! Such company to be in!!!
June 13, 2023
Editing Masterclass
MARION (that’s ye olde ACT Writers’ Centre) have announced the opening rounds of their masterclass series, and I’ll be teaching two online editing sessions in July this year. That is, these are two-part masterclasses, so you front up two Saturdays in a row, for 3 hour sessions.
The details:
* MASTERCLASS 1: Pitch to Publisher with Julia Carlomagno | 1 + 8 July
* MASTERCLASS 2: Editing with Angela Slatter | 22 + 29 July
* MASTERCLASS 3: Grant-writing with Melinda Smith | 12 + 19 August
MARION’s Masterclass series aims to provide a toolkit of essential know-how for navigating the Australian publishing industry. Three crucial aspects of creating a sustainable writing career include writing grants, the skills to pitch to publishers, and editing.
Each masterclass will run in 2 x 3 hour sessions over two Saturdays from 1PM to 4PM.
You can purchase either a series pass, or a single masterclass ticket.
For more information, or to book head to the website.
June 8, 2023
Pre-order The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings!
Cover reveal!
Pre-order links!
Ze words from Brain Jar Press about The Wrong Girl & Other Warnings:
We are SO excited to share the news that preorders on Angela Slatter’s THE WRONG GIRL & OTHER WARNINGS are now open. This collection of extraordinary dark fantasy and horror tales will be out October 17, and we can’t wait for you to get your eyeballs on this book.Preorder your copy TODAY!Direct from Brain Jar Press: https://www.brainjarpress.com/…/the-wrong-girl-other…/Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C76WQVFTAmazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0C76WQVFT/Amazon CA: https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0C76WQVFTAmazon AU: https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B0C76WQVFTAppleBooks: https://books.apple.com/us/book/id6449955880Kobo: https://www.kobo.com/…/ebook/the-wrong-girl-other-warningsGoogle Play: https://shorturl.at/fhoxRSmashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/1403764BLURB!!From the award-winning Angela Slatter, author of The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, All The Murmuring Bones, and The Path of Thorns, comes a collection of twelve short stories showcasing the scope of her extraordinary talent.Throughout The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings, Slatter shows us that ‘innocent’ should never be mistaken for ‘safe’, while spinning tales of witches, Victorian-era detectives, bad parents, unrepentant killers, and ancient wisdom.In A Matter Of Light, detective Kit Casswell is called upon to lend her experience with the supernatural to a very unwilling consulting detective. In Widows’ Walk, a quartet of witches band together in a single house, secretly working to protect young women. In the titular tale, The Wrong Girl, a frustrated artist turns the romance of her fickle friend and tiresome sister into a deadly masterpiece.Wry, savage, and written with the precision of a writer at the top of her game, The Wrong Girl and Other Warnings is a gift to those who already love Slatter’s fiction and those discovering her exquisite stories for the first time.
