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Black-Winged Angels, Sourdough, and The Girl With No Hands are available now. Find where you can buy them.
And now featured in the upcoming Stephen Jones anthology: A Book of Horrors.
Monthly Archives: April 2009
I haz a complaint
It just must have been the day for it. I heard the same question so many times today that I started to wonder if I was in Groundhog Dog or if someone was just messing with me.
Every second person wanted to be introduced to a literary agent (one in four wanted to
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Book Launch at Conjecture – Horn
Horn
by Peter M Ball
http://www.twelfthplanetpress.com
Book Launch – Sunday June 7th, Conjecture, Adelaide
There’s a dead girl in a dumpster and a unicorn on the loose – and no-one knows how bad that combination can get better than Miriam Aster. What starts as a consulting job for city homicide quickly becomes a tangled knot of unexpected questions, and working out the link between
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Tagged book launch, conjecture, horn, novella, peter ball, twelfth planet press
The Lifted Brow #4
I’d like to draw your attention to this little tome, The Lifted Brow #4. It has all sorts of writing-y and music-y goodness going for it. Lyrics by Neil Gaiman on the CDs, stories by writers as amazing as Karen Russell and Rick Moody, among others.
It can be acquired from http://www.theliftedbrow.com/. It’s
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Clarity + Specificity = Authority OR How to Make the Lie Work
Thinky Thinkerton has booked the smallest room in Hotel Brain and has been contemplating authorial authority (yes, she’s a nerd with a lot of time on her hands). Basically, I’ve been wondering this: how do you make your readers believe you?
I ask purely because as fiction writers we are, by our very
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I give you the new Writer's Bible: Booklife
http://www.jeffvandermeer.com/2009/04/21/booklife-turned-innow-it-begins/
I have been fortunate enough to beta-read this and everything in it is useful and wise. On at least four occasions I found solutions to writerly problems I was suffering. Best of all, it’s written by a writer – a real writer who’s already experienced and overcome the issues and offers up sensible, workable solutions
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Tagged Booklife, jeff vandermeer, writing
A New Nasty Story at The Daily Cabal – The Impatient Dead
“I know more about cemeteries than most people. My mother used to take me weekly to visit my father’s grave. My earliest memories are of stone angels and rusting fences. No real feelings beyond a vague sense of having missed out. I do remember my mother, her long dark hair draped around her shoulders like a mourning shawl. If my
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Short Films
Had a very nice meeting with talented young film maker James Findlay yesterday (http://www.vendtheshortfilm.googlepages.com/home) and had a chat about making a film of one of my Daily Cabal microfictions, Sunday Drivers (http://www.dailycabal.com/angela_slatter/). Another mutual friend, the equally talented Mark Kassab wrote a short film script, Sisters, based on Sunday Drivers, and James liked it
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Tagged james findlay, mark kassab, short film, the daily cabal, vend, writing
Monsters vs Aliens (An ersatz review*)
So, last night I went along with some friends to see Dreamworks’ Monsters vs Aliens – in the interests of turning off brains, disconnecting from the problems of the world and our bad/complicated/non-existent/failing relationships. Kids’ movies are good for that. Madagascar II distracted me for days from anything
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