Monthly Archives: September 2010
The Ego Has Landed …
… or subtitled: Not Everybody Knows Your Name.
At a recent AussieCon4-related event I was introduced to a big name writer (not a spec-fic’er, rest easy, my tribe). I was politely making conversation even though I had no idea who this guy was … he was making no such effort. I
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Best. Title. Ever.
http://gapingvoid.com/books/ie222jpeg-2/
The Drive-by Returns: Catherynne M Valente
What to say about Cat Valente that hasn’t been said already? She has a prodigious talent for awesome titles matched only by her skill in producing glorious prose? She produces poetry that reads like prose and prose that is positively poetic? She wore easily the most gorgeous dress
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Photos – more
1. Bed the size
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And so, retreat #2
Bed the size of a football field
Nature = galah
Nature = private beach thingy
And so, the retreat. The Edge writers group took
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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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I am thinking about …
… the questions you ask your story when the first draft is done. More to come … probably.
Canoe
A brief post, which will be filled out tomorrow.
Rob Hoge and I took to the lake in a canoe. Nobody died, no canoe was injured, no one fell in.
The conversation did go something like this, though:
Angela: Hey, rocks.
Rob: Rocks?
Both: Argh! Rocks! Left! Left! No, your other left!!!
Angela: Hey, pelicans.
Rob: I wonder if they’ll attack us.
Angela: Probably zombie pelicans.
Rob: Bound to happen.
Tomorrow,
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I really *am* working
No, no, no, I really am working!
I finished off the latest collab with Lisa Hannett, Prohibition Blues, on Friday night (faeries, shoes, werewolves, bayous, tie-pins!). Then last night I finished off Sun Falls (talking head in a box). Today I am going to take a tilt at the novella Ragged Run (oh, too complicated), which follows on from
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Retreat!
I am on retreat with a bunch of awesomely talented writers, in a gorgeous undisclosed location. I am sharing a cabin with Rob Shearman – he doesn’t eat cereal with milk! Nor does he drink coffee! I know, scandalous.
Is good here. Quiet and retreaty, waterish. Food is excellent.
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