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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.
Tag Archives: shimmer
Weird stuff happens when you’re asleep …
Or rather, The Weird Stuff.
The delightful and slightly (okay, very) Weird Jeff VanderMeer introduces me at the Weird Fiction Review.
Behind the scenes, Angela Slatter has been working as WFR’s managing editor by, among other efforts, answering queries, working with writers on solicited submissions, and helping coordinate our forthcoming 101
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Hewing Away the Rough Walls (Or, Five Ways to Put Your Story on a Diet)
Picture not related – just awesome
The ever-clever Lisa Hannett has blogged over at Shimmer on the above topic. She also mentions my favourite Michelangelo story (no, not the one involving the duck and the four melons).
Michelangelo, that Renaissance jack-of-all-trades, is given credit for one
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Lisa Hannett does a cameo over at Shimmer!
Lisa’s story “Gutted” recently appeared in one of my favourite magazines, the very lovely Shimmer. To go with the story, she wrote a blog post entitled Short Story Collections: Gathering Places for Infinite Worlds.
Imagine yourself at a party.
Not just any old party. There are no paper hats with
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Tagged lisa hannett, shimmer, short story collections
Selling Fiction is Not For Wimps – Jay Lake’s advice for newbies
Great guest post from Jay Lake over at Shimmer:
Jay Lake here, happily guest-blogging for Shimmer on the subject of selling fiction for new writers. This post recaps a number things I’ve said before along the way, with a focus on the basics of aspiration and breaking in. I hope it proves helpful to you.
The Internet is
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Tagged advice for writers, Jay Lake, jess irwin, Lisa L Hannett, shimmer
Goodness that Shimmers!
Always happy to post about Shimmer!
The stories are wondrous and the art is glorious.
Issue 12:
We released our first issue in 2005. We’ve gotten stronger with each issue, and Issue 12 contains wonders and marvels, from Peter M. Ball‘s punk-not-emo teenage werewolf story, to Read more…
Tagged josh storey, monica byrne, peter m ball, shimmer
Drive-by: Amal El-Mohtar
Amal El-Mohtar is joint Queen of Goblin Fruit. She’s a poet, writer, and PhD student in Cornwall (a small envious voice in my head screams “Tintagel” every time I think of that, accurately or not). Her short fiction and poetry have been published in
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Scenting the Drive-by: Mary Robinette Kowal
Mary’s first novel, Shades of Milk and Honey, the fantasy novel Jane Austen should have written, was released into the wild this year (via the good graces of Tor and the lovely Liz Gorinsky). She received
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Servant of the Underworld
Forgive me, I am having a slow start to the year and should have pointed this out days ago … the talented Aliette de Bodard has her debut novel coming out this year via Angry Robot (Note for nerds: HarperCollins’ new spec-fic imprint; also publishes Kaaron Warren).
Servant of the Underworld is the first book
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The Author as Answerer of Questions
The delightful Marshall Payne interviews me over at his Super-Sekrit Clubhouse. There are also some awesome interviews with Amal El-Mohtar, Mike Allen, Vylar Kaftan and more.
Angela Slatter has recently been singled out by Jeff VanderMeer as an emerging writer of note in his Mammals Underfoot! group interview at Clarkesworld. She
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On the Fine Art of Submission
I’ve had quite a few people with queries about the how of submitting stories to magazines and journals in the last couple of weeks. So I thought I’d pull out the ole soapbox again and take up some real estate at Speaker’s Corner. I know I’ve banged on about submission guidelines before, so some of this will be well-trodden ground.
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Tagged 2012, dreaming again, fantasy and science fiction, fantasy magazine, magazines and journals, markets, new ceres nights, shimmer, strange horizons, strange tales, submission guidelines, tartarus press, the australian writer's marketplace, the fine art of submission, twelfth planet press, vandermeer
