Art by Kathleen Jennings
The thing about writing a book is that it takes so long. And this is not a complaint, merely an observation[i]. This is my personal experience.
Bookering, bookerisation, bookification …
From the first tiny spark
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The Dark Issue 56
A lovely way to start the year is with a reprint in The Dark, issue 56! My story “No Good Deed” (a tale set in the world of the Sourdough and Bitterwood mosaic collections) is alongside wonderful work by Clara
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THE BEST OF SHIMMER
I’m absolutely delighted to say that I’ve got a story in this lovely tome, THE BEST OF SHIMMER, coming in 2020.
As “The Little Match Girl” was my first real sale when I started writing, I’m so happy she’s reprinted in this anthology.
ToC:
Flying and
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Ladies of the Fright: Witches!!
Art by Kathleen Jennings as always, from Flight.
Over Halloween I had a chat with the delightful and delovely Lisa Quigley and Mackenzie Kiera, the Ladies of the Fright! About witches (or my “witch work”). Me, sounding very Australian – in the background
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Scribbles
In between a million other things, I’m trying to make sure I keep writing my own things … they make me feel happy, grounded when the world is a bit topsy-turvy (like now, end of year, moving house, deadlines, etc). So here is my current scribble, untitled (but let’s call it “Nest” for the moment), but I think it might
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A Miscellany of Death & Folly
A Miscellany of Death & Folly is now available to order!
… An entertainment including works from some of the finest authors of the weird and morbid working today: A collection of admirable knick-knacks and curios, fictions, non-fictions, poems, for your amusement.
It isn’t
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For a Halloween Snack
Stephen J. Clark’s “Homunculus”
Here’s my short story “Sourdough” …
Sourdough
by Angela Slatter
My father did not know that my mother knew about his other wives, but she did.
It didn’t seem to bother her, perhaps because, of them all, she had the greater
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A MISCELLANY OF DEATH & FOLLY
A MISCELLANY OF DEATH & FOLLY will be available to order on November 2nd, Dia De Los Muertos (The Day of The Dead). I’m absolutely delighted to have a story in this book – Egaeus produces such exquisite collector’s
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Heading into Halloween 2019
If it’s the second year you do it, it’s totally a tradition, right?
So, as I did last year, here are links to all my spooky stories that you can read online for free. They’re not all nice, so be warned.
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Happy Book Birthday, Hex Life!
As it’s already October 1st in Australia, Hex Life is having its birthday! Edited by the fab Christopher Golden and equally fab Rachel Autumn Deering, this magnificent tome contains WICKED NEW TALES OF WITCHERY! Go! Buy! Read! Pick yours up at your
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