Monthly Archives: February 2012

Are you giving away your story?

Today, I am in super-crit mode; so far eight stories read and critiqued since 8.30 this morning. I know the crash will come soon.

But while I’ve been doing this, I’ve noticed a repeated motif in all
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In which there are critters …

Over at Shared Worlds, a group of us were give the chance to ‘choose our critter’ and write a little history for it. I made up Cloud-Bibbles, Lavie Tidhar introduces the world to Zoltar and Neil Gaiman’s Shadder is
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Truly belated Tuesday

Here is the is the Tuesday Therapy … Margo Lanagan over at the Hannettorium on cooking.

Here‘s t’is.

Reason no. 4785 to love Angela Carter

It’s nice to be able to go back and read something you had to study for your MA and find that you can now re-read it for enjoyment.

At the moment I have several books on the bedside table,
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The Peripatetic Life of the Freelance Editor: in the Lair with Mr Stephen Jones

Today we have kidnapped the much lauded, applauded and awarded Mr Stephen Jones, editor of such tomes as A Book of Horrors, Zombie Apocalypse!, Shadows Over Innsmouth, and the Mammoth Books of Best New Horror, Vampires,
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How gorgeous is …

… this?

The cover of Mary Robinette Kowal’s latest lovely tome, Glamour in Glass.

*sigh* Divine!

New books!

Very happy to find these on the doorstep this morn.

Angela Carter, hallowed be her name.

Meanwhile, over at Clarkesworld …

… the lovely Jeremy L C Jones talks to the equally lovely Lisa L Hannett …

In Bluegrass Symphony, Lisa L. Hannett writes of a place that is, perhaps, somewhere (or nowhere) in the rural
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PhD …

… my Examiners’ Reports arrived on Tuesday night – one receommending no changes, the other recommending minor changes.

Meeting with the Most Delightful Supervisors Ever, Viv and Donna, next week to discuss plan of attack.

Huzzah – July graduation and
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Books by friends

Very, very happy to get these two books by very dear and talented friends of mine: Berzoo by Errol Bray (Clouds of Magellan) and Thrill Seekers by Edwina Shaw (Ransom)!

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