Angela Slatter's Blog, page 92
January 19, 2015
Is it wrong that …
… my business meetings with Kathleen Jennings involve a lot of me squeeeeeeeing at her artwork? From today’s luncheon meeting:
January 18, 2015
Midnight and Moonshine comp
The bag for the M&M competition on Goodreads has arrived!
Kathleen’s artwork for this book always makes me catch my breath.
Go here to enter.
January 17, 2015
New to Amazon: Home and Hearth
Now that the limited edition chapbooks of Home and Hearth from the lovely Spectral Press have pretty much sold out, I’ve put it up on Amazon so that more than 125 people can read it! 
You can buy it here.
Caroline’s son returns to home and hearth at last. She’s a good parent or so she tells herself. She did everything a mother could to bring Simon back, even lied for him. The only problem is that Caroline’s not sure she actually wants him here anymore. Has Simon changed? Or is he still a danger? And does it matter now that the shadows are beginning to stir in the empty rooms of Caroline’s house?
January 15, 2015
Four Horrifying Tales available on Amazon
And, as a companion to Four Dark Tales, I’ve published Four Horrifying Tales over at Amazon.
This mini-collection contains:
1. Cuckoo
2. Jimmy Dean, Jimmy Dean
3. Frozen
4. Red Skein
You can purchase it here.
January 13, 2015
Four Dark Tales available on Amazon
Over at Amazon, I’ve put together a mini-collection of four previously published stories.
It’s designed for readers who’ve not read my work before and who’d like a taster before they commit to my other full-length collections.
You can buy Four Dark Tales here.
As time goes by, I’ll add a few more to the roster.
Ze cover is by my beloved, and the ToC is:
1. The Chrysanthemum Bride
2. Skin
3. Dresses, Three
4. The Angel Wood
January 11, 2015
The Review of Australian Fiction
The Review of Australian Fiction is undertaking a subscription drive.
A six issue, three month subscription to RAF costs $12.99 and you get two new stories each issue. RAF publishes a wide range of fiction, including spec fic – so, not your typical lit magazine.
Volume 13, the first issue of 2015, launches tomorrow with a lead story by Cate Kennedy.
Go on, you know you want to – you get fantastic fiction and the RAF gets to survive for another year. Go here, subscribe, tell your friends.
Reminder: QWC Short Story Clinic
Just a reminder for that I’m running a Short Story Clinic for Queensland Writers Centre this year.
Everyone participates by writing and submitting, reading and critiquing everyone else’s stories. So, you’ll learn more about writing craft and how to read your own and others’ work critically. And how to be constructive! If you’ve been writing for a while and want to kick your skills up to the next level, then please come along. Registration and cost details are here.
It’s an evening course, from 6pm – 8pm on the following dates:
Tuesday April 7
Tuesday May 5
Tuesday July 7
Tuesday August 4
Tuesday September 8
Tuesday October 6
January 5, 2015
Goodreads Giveaway: Midnight and Moonshine
We’re running a new Goodreads Giveaway, this one for Lisa’s and my Aurealis Award finalist Midnight and Moonshine. There is also a bag with the M&M cover art on it, by the wonderful Kathleen Jennings, of course.
To enter, pls go here.
A reminder of what the book’s about:
The gods are dead, but will not be forgotten.
When Mymnir flees the devastation of Ragnarok, she hopes to escape all that bound her to Ásgarðr — a heedless pantheon, a domineering brother, and her neglectful father-master, Óðinn. But the white raven, a being of memory and magic, should know that the past is not so easily left behind. No matter how far she flies, she cannot evade her family…
In planting seeds of the old world in the new, Mymnir becomes queen of a land with as many problems as the one she fled. Her long-lived Fae children ignite and fan feuds that span generations; lives are lost and loves won because of their tampering. Told in thirteen parts, Midnight and Moonshine follows the Beaufort and Laveaux families, part-human, part-Fae, as they battle, thrive and survive in Mymnir’s kingdom.
Publishers Weekly in its starred review wrote ‘Marked by imagery both beautiful and 
grotesque, and unnerving twists that recall the uncanny horror of original fairy tales, this collection contains a unifying, multilayered plot that draws upon Norse mythology to take the reader on a thrilling, unsettling journey.’
Peter Tennant in Black Static #39 said ‘Hannett and Slatter have each written superb stories in their own right, but working in tandem they have reached new heights. Midnight and Moonshine is a brilliant book, a work rich in ideas and written in beautiful, evocative prose, with a sense of magic (and horror) as inextricably entwined with human existence. It’s a book that I think will reward repeat readings as you stumble across yet more links and allusions, and appreciation grows for what these authors have accomplished.’
December 31, 2014
Good Morning, 2015
Happy New Year from a hot and humid Brisneyland, peeps. May it be all you wish it to be!
I’ve started the year as I wish to continue: checking proofs! The delightful Paula Guran sent on the proof of Blood Sisters: Vampire Stories by Women so I’ve just finished looking over “Sun Falls”, which I originally wrote for Ticonderoga’s Dead Red Heart. It remains a favourite.
Last night I did a quick tally of my 2014 achievements, just to remind myself that I did something despite it being the year of the hermit (i.e. only one con).
9 short stories published
3 new collections publisher (one with my dearest Brain, Lisa L Hannett)
2 articles
3 bits of big news I can’t announce yet
Went to WFC and had a blast and was not sick this year
2 stories selected for Year’s Bests
That’s pretty much it! I look forward to sharing those Big Secret Bits of News as soon as I’m able!
December 30, 2014
I don’t like your chances!
And from the new project with Kathleen Jennings (we’re calling our collab stuff the Fracture Tales Workshop): Princess Genevieve confronts Sir Giles, who’s a bit of a cut-rate knight.
