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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.
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Win a hard cover copy of A Book of Horrors
Okay, so now that this beautiful, disturbing book has been launched at FantasyCon in Brighton last weekend, it’s time to run this competition. T’will run for a week from today.
The all important question is located here – to the right of the page, over, over, there!
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Tagged angela slatter, brian hodge, Caitlin R. Kiernan, dennis etchison, elizabeth hand, jo fletcher, john arvijde lindqvist, lisa tuttle, michael marshall smith, peter crowther, Ramsey Campbell, reggie oliver, richard christian matheson. A Book of Horrors, robert shearman, stephen jones, stephen king
The Lair of the Evil Drs Brain
So, what is the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain?
Basically it’s Lisa Hannett and I talking to each other and other people about stuff. Writing stuff.
Topics will include:
Steampunkery
Fairytaleosity
Phat Phantasy
Where you write and how you get in the mood?
Should a muumuu by mandatory
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Lair of the Evil Drs Brain
So, what is the Lair of the Evil Drs Brain?
Basically it’s Lisa Hannett and I talking to each other and other people about stuff. Writing stuff.
Topics will include:
Steampunkery
Fairytaleosity
Phat Phantasy
Where you write and how you get in the mood?
Should a muumuu by mandatory for blogging?
What
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Fumbling towards the PhD
Is me.
I’m in final stage PhDery, fumbling, mumbling, grumbling and scrambling towards the end of it all.
Today I will be breaking a cardinal rule and using my write club time to produce the Conclusion to the reflective essay. Pete will yell at me, coz write club time is
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Tagged angela slatter, phd, sourdough and other tales
A Book of Horrors
Just a reminder that A Book of Horrors will be launched at Fantasy Con in Brighton on 1.10.11. There will be signings. There will be booky goodness.
And there will be a
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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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Interesting post over at Salon.com
Charlize Theron as the Evil Queen in the new Snow White flick
From Emma Mustich over at Salon.com talks to the legendary Jack Zipes regarding the latest crop of fairy tale-inspired films. Be nice if someone bought one of my fairy tales and made it into a movie –
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Another nice surprise …
First advance author copies of the very lovely The Year’s Best Australian Fantasy & Horror 2010, edited by Liz Grzyb and Talie Helene. Publisher Russ had them stashed away and then handed them over to the kids in the candy store last night.
Added: Liz and Talie’s recommended reading list is here – I got 3 mentions, as did Brain, Felicity
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And this morning I woke up to …
… to a LOT of emails telling me that Sourdough and Other Stories has been shortlisted for a World Fantasy Award for Best Collection.
Which was awesome, because look at the other folk in the category:
Best Collection
What I Didn’t See and Other Stories, Karen Joy Fowler (Small Beer)
The
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How have I missed this?
I don’t know how I missed this, but consider myself dreadfully remiss. Brain (Lisa L Hannett) did a post on fairy tale girls, which is great. And here in all its clever glory.
A sample:
Lately, I’ve been thinking about fairy tales.
There
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