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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 of the sixteen stories the
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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 century fainting couch. Let there
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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
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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
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