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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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New Two-Book Deal!
Art by Kathleen Jennings
I’m absolutely delighted to say that, thanks to the excellent work of my beloved agent Meg Davis (Ki Agency), I’ve signed a two-book deal with Cath Trechman of Titan Books.
The novel currently known as Blackwater will be published in
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Dilatando Mentes
I’m absolutely delighted to say that Sourdough and Other Stories will be translated into Spanish by the lovely folks at Dilatando Mentes (“Expanding Minds”) Editorial! Sourdough will be published in Spanish in 2021, and gradually all my other single author collections as well.
This is
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Meg Caddy: Devil’s Ballast
And today the truly delightful and piratical Meg Caddy takes over the blog to talk about Devil’s Ballast, Lambert Simnel as a dinner guest, and witch trials. Oh, and cats.
1. What do new readers need to know about
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Blackwater
As always art by Kathleen Jennings coz wolves and candlesticks and pouffy skirts …
So, I spent most of last year and the first few months of this year working on a novel called Blackwater. It’s a gothic fantasy set in the same
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Australian Writers’ Centre Courses
So, Brisneylanders, I’m teaching Creative Writing Stage 1 on Saturday 20-21 July 2019 10am–4pm for the Australian Writers’ Centre.
Then, Sydneysiders, I’m teaching it for you on
Saturday 10-11 August 2019 10am-4pm AND then I’m teaching Short Story in One Day on Sunday
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