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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.
Category Archives: fairy tales
Postscript: the Magick 4 Terri auction
Terri Windling's Studio
This is just a lovely little thank you/summary of the Magick 4 Terri auction. This was an amazing effort by organisers Liz & Mia, and I’m very proud to have been able to contribute. I’ve enjoyed Terri’s work since I was a teen
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Tagged magick 4 terri, terri windling
A milestone of sorts
Sourdough and Other Stories, my beautiful limited edition hard cover from Tartarus Press has sold out!
It’s a bit like your kid growing up and leaving home.
Watch this space …
The So Silver, So Bright Drive-by: Lisa Mantchev
Lisa Mantchev is the creator of the glorious Théâtre Illuminata and the unfortgettable Beatrice Shakespeare Smith. She is mum to the Sugar Bean and Tiny Doom, the possessor of an awesome collection of corsets, a hearter of both donuts and danishes, a perspicacious editor and a Damned Fine
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Win! Win! Win!
Win a signed copy of the World Fantasy nominated collection Sourdough and Other Stories. So on the homepage, look to the right of the screen, see the widgetty thingy?
Answer the question, enter and be in the running for a lovely limited edition Sourdough and Other Stories published by
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The Opposite Drive-by: Narrelle Harris
The Opposite of Life by Narrelle M. Harris had Charlaine Harris (that’s Sookie’s mum) breathless. A vampire novel that does something new and is set in Melbourne, the novel was a huge achievement for the author and Pulp Fiction Press.
Narrelle’s first novel was the crime/thriller, Fly By Night
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For your listening pleasure
The delightful and talented Bob Kuhn, who did readings for a bunch of Australian and NZ authors at the WorldCon in Reno this year was kind enough to record my story ‘Skin’.
So lovely to hear someone else reading out my work!
You may listen to
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The Black & White Drive-by: Holly Black
Bestseller Holly Black writes contemporary fantasy novels for teens and children – but then, you know that.
She is the mum of the Spiderwick Chronicles (with award winning artist, Tony DiTerlizzi). Her first book came out in 2002, Tithe, followed by Valiant (2005) and Ironside (2007). Holly regularly spends
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The Broken Drive-by: Stephen M. Irwin
Stephen M. Irwin is a Brisbane-based writer of speculative fiction and an award-winning director and screenwriter – Car Pool won Best Comedy at the 2007 St Kilda Film Festival and in 2008 Ascension won Best Short, Sci-Fi London. His first novel, The Dead Path, was named a Top
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Sweet! Infinite Adaptations …
Happy-happy-joy-joy! In today’s mail is the latest WQ magazine – the Adaptation issue.
My excitement? Is caused by seeing the article I wrote about the enduring power of fairy tales.
Critic and writer Marina Warner says that old storytellers used to finish their stories with: ‘This is the tale
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Tagged angela slatter, fairy tale adaptations, marina warner, qwc, wq
I answered some questions for Jildy Sauce …
… a lot about fairy tales and some about writing process and I also give the (only partially facetious) executive summary for writers wanting to be published. Thanks for asking, Paul Kane 
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The author of the magnificent mosaic, Sourdough
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