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Remember when I said …

… that I would document my Smashwords journey? Well, I didn’t lie, but I did get distracted. Luckily, Alan Baxter prodded me with a sharp stick … the result is a guest post over at The Word, the first in a series … not a series with me, but with other far more erudite and interesting writers than I. Let’s
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In which I make a list and do a Snoopy Dance

Ellen Datlow listed both Sourdough and Other Stories and The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales on her Christmas List :-)

You might consider buying one of two collections of stories by relative newcomer Angela Slatter: Sourdough (Tartarus) and The Girl with No Hands (and Other Tales) (Ticonderoga Publications). Many of
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Tally-ho!

Spurred on by Aliette de Bodard’s counting – which is a good thing to do, to remind yourself what you’ve actually achieved in a year – I did some counting of my own for 2010:

2 x short story collections

5 x short stories in anthologies (2 of them with L L Hannett)

I’m okay with that.

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Review of The Girl with No Hands over at Scary Minds

A very considered review of The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales (Russ has asked that any other book I ever do with him has a shorter title – I have promised) over at Scary Minds. Thanks, Scary Minds! :-)

I had an absolutely marvellous time with The Girl With No Hands and enjoyed each
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ZOMG!!!

Publishers Weekly reviewed The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales! Positively!

It’s also the first time Ticonderoga has had a book reviewed in PW! Huzzah!

*Snoopy dance*

In this collection of 16 previously published and new stories, Slatter presents twisted, fractured, illuminating fairy tales and dark fantasies that beguile in their elegant simplicity. Many of the stories are reiterations of classic fairy
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Holy Stunning Review, Batman!

My lurgy-addled brain (which told me it was a good idea to do the 45 min walk to the shops this morning with only two coffees and a Haigh’s marshmallow square in my belly), has just meandered through this review from Beyond Fiction. It’s a very nice review indeed. Thanks to Mr Reviewer, Simon Marshall-Jones. And thanks to Mark Deniz who
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Huzzah!

And now life is complete:

The Girl With No Hands and Other Tales has arrived.

It has an Intro by legendary Jack Dann, a cover design by the extraordinarily talented Lisa Hannett and Kirstyn McDermott says nice things on the cover :-) . Below, you see it resting on – why, yes, it is resting on an eighteenth
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Intro to The Girl with No Hands …

… some lovely words from the awesome Jack Dann in his Introduction to The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales … here’s an excerpt (why, yes, I did include this bit coz he called me ‘young’):

Angela Slatter is a young, beautiful, gregarious, extremely bright and funny no-nonsense
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The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales is available for pre-order

 

Forgive me, I’m too excited to be of much use – the link is here for pre-orderage http://www.indiebooksonline.com/catalog/index.php

Hard cover or paperback – squeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

*complete lack of authorial dignity*’

Oh, and here is the ToC:

Introduction by Jack Dann
Bluebeard
The Living Book
The Jacaranda Wife
Red Skein
The Chrysanthemum Bride
Frozen
The Hummingbird Heart
Words
The Little
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