Margo Lanagan. Here’s a woman after my own heart. She can look in the dictionary and find a horror story. “What sparked ‘The Goosle’ Goodness knows what I was looking up in The New Shorter Oxford Dictionary in the second half of 2005, when my eyes wandered from their task and [...]
Archive for August, 2011
Sparks: Margo Lanagan
Posted in General on August 30, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Sparks: Sean Williams
Posted in General on August 25, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Sean Williams is one of the smartest people I’ve met. He’s as comfortable and as knowledgeable talking about cocktails and crap TV as he is about philosophy, science, and history. And he can write about anything, make you feel anything. Disgust, surprise, heartbreak. He can see into the future and remember a past he didn’t [...]
Sparks: Maurice Broaddus
Posted in General on August 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Maurice Broaddus and I share a publisher in Angry Robot Books, and we’ve share a table of contents, too, in Voices from the Past from HH Books. His work is full of integrity and horror, and he has this way of drawing you so deep into the character it takes you a minute or two [...]
Sparks: Deborah Biancotti
Posted in General on August 18, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Sometimes when I’m reading one of Deborah Biancotti’s stories I feel actually, physically, chilled to the bone. That’s how good she is. “And the Dead Shall Outnumber the Living The true spark for my upcoming Ishtar novella was when Mark Deniz asked me to contribute to an anthology that would feature a past, present & [...]
Colin Harvey
Posted in General on August 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Very, very sad to hear of the death of author Colin Harvey. I met Colin at Worldcon in Montreal and found him to be a funny, clever, kind, interesting, wonderful man.
Sparks: Cat Sparks
Posted in General on August 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I love Cat Sparks’ stories because they have a powerful narrative flow, with a deep heart of inspiration. She writes about stuff that angers her, or breaks her heart, or brings back memories. I love that passion. She knows how to write a page-turner, too. ” ‘All the Love in the World’ was [...]
Review: Mistification
Posted in General on August 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Devin Jeyathurai, who received the prize for owning the first copy in Singapore of Mistification, has posted a wonderful review at his website, Living in SIN. Nothing better than to hear this said about your novel: “And then there are those books that are so rich and full, like a cup of espresso. Those can [...]
Sparks: Lucy Sussex
Posted in General on August 11, 2011 | 4 Comments »
My second-published short story, Skin Holes, appeared in Penguin anthology called Strange Fruit. I was thrilled beyond belief to make into this ‘outre” book, edited by Paul Collins, not least because Lucy Sussex had a story in there and she was, and remains, one of my favourite writers. I’d read her collection My Lady Tongue [...]
Sparks: Rob Hood
Posted in General on August 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Robert Hood is the perfect example of my theory about horror writers, plumbers and butchers. They deal with blood, guts, shit and all kinds of nasty things in their jobs, yet they are the nicest people you’ll find. I’ve never known a bad tempered plumber or butcher, and horror writers are usually very easy to [...]
Sparks: Angela Slatter
Posted in General on August 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Angela Slatter’s stories display a vision of the world which is a slight shift away from reality. I love that. Slatterworld is lyrical and full of imagery, but it’s also harsh in its reality, and cruel, and disturbing. She’s another powerful, original voice. Her Sourdough and Other Stories collection is up for a World Fantasy [...]
