A.G. Slatter's Blog, page 9

World Fantasy Awards!

I’m utterly delighted to see that The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales has made the shortlist for the World Fantasy Award for Best Collection! Once again with gorgeous illustrations by Kathleen Jennings.

This is my third WFA shortlisting in this category and all for the Sourdough world mosaic collections from Tartarus Press (The Bitterwood Bible won in 2014).

Extra delight comes from seeing the other finalists, who are amazing friends and colleagues!

COLLECTION

Tales the Devil Told Me by Jen Fawkes (Press 53)Big Dark Hole: Stories by Jeffrey Ford (Small Beer Press)Midnight Doorways: Fables from Pakistan by Usman T. Malik (Kitab)The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales by Angela Slatter (Tartarus Press)The Ghost Sequences by A. C. Wise (Undertow Publications)Never Have I Ever: Stories by Isabel Yap (Small Beer Press)

The rest of the shortlists are here.

Narrative Species: The Path of Thorns

I was fortunate enough to have a lovely chat with Rick Kleffel over at Narrative Species about my new novel, The Path of Thorns.

Over here!

Avid Reader Event: The Path of Thorns

Hey, folks. If you missed the function a fortnight ago for The Path of Thorns ,despair not. The fab Avid Reader is hosting an in-conversation next week betwixt myself and the lovely @trentonomicon.In-face or en Zoom Tues 12 July, book here
https://avidreader.com.au/events/a-g-slatter-the-path-of-thorns

News: Hellboy Universe!

I have been sitting on this news for literal years! Mike and I talked about it at the end of 2019, we were set to start work … and then BAM! The Plague Years.

But it’s all good – we’re up and running now, and Castle Full of Blackbirds is due for release in September 2022. It stars Sara May Blackburn and Miss Brook from The Return of Effie Kolb (with some guest appearances from the Big Red Guy) and I’m super proud of this little baby, which was a delight to work on … something new and entirely different for me.

There’s artwork, colouring and lettering by The Incredibles: Valeria Burzo, Wylie Beckert, Marianna Strychowska, Vanessa Del Rey, Michelle Madsen and Clem Robins that just brings Sara May and the Linton School for Girls alive.

Thanks so much to Mike for asking me, and then being patient with all those questions that started with “So, this demon back in issue #thing of 19whatsit5 …”, and a huge thanks to the Dark Horse Team (Katii O’Brien, Jenny Blenk and Misha Gehr) for their sharp editorial eyes, also answering all my questions and humouring me (“There must be a green leaf on that apple!!”).

“This September, legendary Hellboy creator Mike Mignola and acclaimed artist Valeria Burzo will be joined by award-winning novelist Angela Slatter for Castle Full of Blackbirds, an all-new miniseries from Dark Horse Comics. The four-issue miniseries will mark Slatter’s comic-book writing debut. Mignola, Slatter, and Burzo will be joined by colorist Michelle Madsen, letterer Clem Robins, and cover artist Wylie Beckert. Vanesa Del Rey will provide a variant cover for issue #1.”

Here’s the full article over at Daily Dead.

Aaaaaand you can pre-order at your local comic book store … in Brisbane I gravitate towards Comics Etc and Pulp Fiction Booksellers will also order it in …

Locus Awards 2022

I’m both delighted and amused to see my little (profanity-ridden) Brain Jar Press writer chap as one of the finalists for the Locus Awards for Non-Fiction!

The shortlists are here.

Launch – The Path of Thorns

We are ready to launch my new novel, The Path of Thorns! And yes, Brisneyland, you’re getting the book ahead of the rest of the world!

Come and watch Kathleen Jennings and I bicker our way through an in-conversation, while Pulp Fiction Booksellers dance around in the background holding books. So, just like most of my launches, really. Thank you to @titanbooks for publishing me and to @cathtrech for editing me!

‘Tis free, but ye must book, so go here.

Blurb!

Asher Todd goes to live with the mysterious Morwood family as a governess to their children. Asher knows little about being a governess, but she is skilled in botany and herbcraft, and perhaps more than that. And she has secrets of her own dark and terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets.

With a monstrous revenge in mind, Asher plans to make it choke.

However, she becomes fond of her changes, of the people of the Tarn, and she begins to wonder if she will be able to execute her plan – and who will suffer most if she does. But as the ghosts of her past become harder to control, Asher realises she has no choice.

Angela Slatter is the author of the gothic fantasy novels, All The Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns and the Verity Fassbinder supernatural crime series. She has won several awards including a World Fantasy, British Fantasy, Australian Shadows, Ditmar and Aurealis Awards.

Join Angela in conversation with illustrator and writer of Flyaway, Kathleen Jennings as they discuss her latest novel Path of Thorns.
Books will be available for purchase on the day or bring your copy from home to be signed.

Presented as part of the Lord Mayor’s Writers in Residence series.

The Bone Lantern

The Bone Lantern novella is now available to order on the PS Publishing website. Go here!

When a strange creature approaches Selke’s campfire, intent on filling its stomach with who knows what (or whom), Selke disarms it with her own meal and the promise of stories, eager to prolong her life while she searches for salvation.

There follows the tale of Gwynn, a young witch determined to survive the prince’s court and avoid the fate of his many wives; the story of a dital harp, imbued with the magic of its maker to aid in her quest for revenge, and lastly, the tale of Selke’s search for the bone lantern, and through it her salvation…

Bohemiana Podcast!

A couple of weeks ago I had the absolute pleasure of chatting with the fabulous George Penney on her Bohemiana Podcast about a range of stuff!

A big thanks for the wonderful Juliet Marillier for introducing us.

You can listen here.

NetGalley: The Path of Thorns

The Path of Thorns is now available for bona fide reviewers to request on NetGalley.

Asher Todd is employed as a governess to the mysterious Morwood family. But she has secrets of her own, dark and terrible – and Morwood is a house that eats secrets. Request THE PATH OF THORNS by @AngelaSlatter now!

Go here.

Podcast – Flight

Over at the Narrative Species podcast, Kathleen Jennings and I talk to Rick Kleffel about our collaboration on the illustrated book Flight (published by PS Publishing).

You can listen to us waffle on here.

And purchase the book here.