Tag Archives: Emma Donoghue

New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing

Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl

(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the Witch.)

‘Most intellectual development depends upon new readings of old texts. I am all for
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Smashwordery

Okay, so my first experiment in digital publishing is up at Smashwords.

T’is Black-Winged Angels, the short story collection of reloaded fairytales I wrote for my MA. We’ll see how this goes – i.e. how well I’ve managed to follow the technical’ish requirements (thanks to Alan Baxter for tips!) – and then Sourdough & Other Stories will be next.

My Significant Other did the
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Meanwhile, over at SF Signal: The Dream Anthology

The delightful John DeNardo at SF Signal asked a few people to pick and choose for their dream anthology, citing what you’d choose and why. The answers were so big, they had to split the post in two.

Mine is here, as is that of Nancy
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Books, books, books.

You know you want books.

QWC is giving you the chance to get books with its two raffles, one general fiction, the other speculative fiction. Oh, and each sack’o’books also contains a brand spanking new copy of the latest Australian Writer’s Marketplace for 2011/2012 – the 11th edition, in fact.

Ze list of books is below, click ze links for more details
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