Monthly Archives: March 2011

For I am a Nerd

March 14, 2011 | Random | 2 Comments

At midnight last night I finally finished the first draft of my PhD exegetical component. That is, the long essay that serves as a commentary to writing Sourdough and Other Stories. And I am such a nerd that my first gleeful thought was: I can read fiction on the train again!!!

It’s not my fault, I’m just made that way.

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Lovely Review

March 13, 2011 | News | Leave a comment

… of Sourdough by Liz Grzyb over here.

Snippetry:If you haven’t read any of Angela Slatter’s stories, you are truly missing out. Go out and find some immediately. I am a particular fan of Slatter’s fairytale-esque stories, like those found in Sourdough and
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Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror

March 13, 2011 | News | 8 Comments

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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Woot – Honorable Mentions

March 12, 2011 | News | 4 Comments

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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The Jones Drive-by: Stephen Jones

March 9, 2011 | Drive-by Interviews, News, On Publishing, On Writing: General | Leave a comment

Painting by Les Edwards

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
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Scalzi on Bear on Being Fictional

March 4, 2011 | AWM Online, On Writing: General | Leave a comment

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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Angry Robot – not so angry

March 3, 2011 | News | Leave a comment

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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Hello, Alan Kelly

March 2, 2011 | Random | Leave a comment

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 :-)

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The Kill Devil Hill Drive-by: Ace Jordan

March 2, 2011 | Drive-by Interviews, News | Leave a comment

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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