Category Archives: On Publishing
I love you, Random Alex
The lovely Alex of Randomly Yours, Alex has posted a most wonderful review of Midnight and Moonshine. And it made me cry, just a little, coz I’ve felt that our gorgeous book, over which Lisa and I lavished such love and attention and
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The Alternative Typewriter dissects “The Chrysanthemum Bride”
“The Bride” by Mac Tuyet
Haralambi Markov looks at my story “The Chrysanthemum Bride”, which first appeared at Fantasy Magazine in 2009.
A snippet:
“The Chrysanthemum Bride” gives Slatter the necessary setting and platform to examine the unsavory fates allotted to women
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Area X Marks the Spot: Welcome to the Southern Reach
Annihilation, the first book of the Southern Reach trilogy and Jeff VanderMeer’s first novel in four years, is in barnstorming mode to say the least. You can purchase it here (you know you want to).
The story so far:
Annihilation is set
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Happiness in the mail
It’s always a happy day when books arrive at The Bones Remember Everything. It’s an even happier day when the books are from Tartarus Press. But when it’s Tartarus Press books in which I have a story?
Ticker tape parade, snoopy dancing,
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Jo Fletcher: Fearie Tales: Stories of the Grimm and Gruesome
Edmund_Dulac_-_Snow_Queen
Our lovely publisher Jo Fletcher of Jo Fletcher Books has the place of honour for the final Fearie Tales post – we launch the book on 2 November at WFC! – and she talks here about “The Snow Queen”,
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Books Written by Mad Ancestors: KJ Bishop
Art by Kathleen Jennings
The wonderful and surreal writing of KJ Bishop has brought us, among other things, the World Fantasy finalist The Etched City and the Aurealis Award winning That Book Your Mad Ancestor Wrote, as well as short
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S P Miskowski’s Knock Knock and the Skillute Cycle
SP Miskowski is one of the finer voices in modern horror fiction. Her work is tense, beautifully paced, and deeply, deeply perceptive as to the human condition and all its foibles, faults and perfections. She was kind enough to answer a few questions
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John Ajvide Lindqvist: Come Unto Me
Today’s Fearie Tales post is from the astonishingly talented Mr John Ajvide Lindqvist, talking about trolls, changelings, doppelganger, and the dead returning to the living
FOR THE SECOND time in less than a month, Annika was walking up the aisle of the
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Genre Con Oz 2013 – Where Stuff Didst Happenst
So, from Friday 11 Oct through to Sunday 13 Oct, I was embedded in Genre Con Oz at SLQ … in the manner of an especially happy tick in the neck of a particularly juicy bullock.
My photo of Lisa