Tag Archives: Black-Winged Angels

New Wine in Old Bottles: A Meditation on Writing

March 25, 2011 | fairy tales, On Writing: General | 2 Comments

Arthur Rackman's Little Match Girl

(This is an extract from my MA thesis from 2006, and is a meditation on my own writing of Black-Winged Angels and Carter’s The Bloody Chamber and Donoghue’s Kissing the
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Shallow and Superficial

February 18, 2011 | News | Comments Off

And thank you to Lisette, who says this cat reminds her of me -.-

Peter Tennant asked me the questions that gave me the opportunity to be “just as shallow and superficial as the rest of us” … so, in effect,
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Black Static #21 and now we shall snoopy dance

February 16, 2011 | News | 2 Comments

My excitement could only be greater if Christopher Lee had been on the cover. But Peter Cushing makes me *almost* as happy :-).

The delightful Peter Tennant interviewed me and reviewed Black-Winged Angels, The Girl with
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Smashwordery

November 26, 2010 | fairy tales, News, On Publishing, On Writing: Short Stories | 2 Comments

Okay, so my first experiment in digital publishing is up at Smashwords.

T’is Black-Winged Angels, the short story collection of reloaded fairytales I wrote for my MA. We’ll see how this goes – i.e. how well I’ve managed to follow the technical’ish requirements (thanks to Alan Baxter for tips!) – and then Sourdough & Other Stories will be next.

My Significant Other did the
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Going Digital

November 23, 2010 | News | 5 Comments

And so, the experiment begins.

I’m going to be publishing (with the blessing of Tartarus Press) a digital version of Sourdough and Other Stories via Smashwords. I’m the digital guinea pig, which is a lot less creepy than being the canary in a cage beging sent down the mineshaft, but feels equally experimental.

I’m also going to do a digital version of
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Little Red Riding Hood – Life off the Path

October 14, 2009 | fairy tales, On Writing: General, Random | 18 Comments

This is an article I wrote – it formed part of my Masters “Black-Winged Angels” – and it appeared in Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest #12 (March 2008). For when boredom strikes and one is feeling particularly nerdly … it has appalling bad footnotes and a bibliography, for which I apologise profusely – my academic streak is thin, if
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