Monthly Archives: September 2013
Launching: The Cobbler Mage
Art by Rebekah Pearson
My lovely and talented friend Angie Rega is launching her first book this Saturday, 5 October 2013, at 5.30pm.
The Cobbler Mage will have champagne poured all over it at
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And lo, I do the Dance of the Happiest Author in Authortown
In the mail from Jo Fletcher Books, the hard cover and the trade paperback. Huzzah!
The Tallow-Wife
Godfried Schalcken
And so, after much planning and plotting, note-taking and scribbling on things, The Tallow-Wife and Other Tales has begun.
Here is the first draft of the opening page:
The Tallow-Wifeby Angela Slatter
Cordelia does not think about
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Christopher Fowler: The Ash-Boy
Photo snurched from The Guardian
Please welcome Mr Christopher Fowler, he of (among MANY other things) the Bryant & May books, to chat about “The Tinder Box”, transgressions, Quasimodo, and the effect
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Michael Marshall Smith: Look Inside
As well as being in the running for the Most Intriguing Opening Sentence Award, Michael Marshall Smith is one of the Fearie Tales authors. Today he chats about Little Red Riding Hood, the eternal verities of human nature, and
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Brian Hodge: Anything to Me is Sweeter, Than to Cross Shock-headed Peter
Please welcome the delightful Mr Brian Hodge, who fills us in on cages, cannibalism, Der Struwwelpeter, and fairy tales for today’s Fearie Tales post.
CONCERNING THE BROWNSTONE building where they were housed, it was said that the sun had never once shined on the place in all the
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Garth Nix: Crossing the Line
Photo snurched from the Keys to the Kingdom site
Master storyteller Garth Nix shares his experience of and thoughts about fairy tales today as part of the lead-up to the launch of
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New collection
I seem to have agreed to do a collection with Mr Johnny Mains of Noose and Gibbet fame.
It’s scheduled to be out in 2015 and will be called Lemarchand’s Dictionary of Tenuous Connections and Other Tales – because apparently The Girl
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Tanith Lee: Open Your Window, Golden Hair
Tanith Lee is one of the finest writers you could ever have the joy of reading. Her accolades and achievements are legion – and you can read about them here in the Lair of the Evil Drs
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Of much interest …
… is this great interview from Fata Libelli with the esteemed Mr Reggie Oliver.
He ranges widely across subjects of craft and genre, but I particularly like his comments on the nature of Horror fiction.
However, to me the supreme ingredient is atmosphere and all those other elements must be contributors towards it. This is not necessarily about being directly “scary” so
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