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You Are Not Your Writing & Other Sage Advice

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“Sure, writers have demons and inner critics that whisper horrible, discouraging things to us. But some of us give them undignified pet names and enrol them in short courses to get them off our hands…”

In these essays, Angela Slatter—the World Fantasy Award-winning author of the Sourdough Stories, the Verity Fassbinder Series, and more—explores the relationship between the writer, their work, and the publishing industry they inhabit.

Drawn from twelve years of author presentations, keynote speeches, blog posts, and articles aimed at aspiring and established professionals, You Are Not Your Writing features Slatter’s best advice on managing social media, understanding the role awards play in your developing career, the hierarchy of rejection, and strategically building your career and network of other writers. Most importantly, they draw the line between the writer and their work, and illustrate the dangers of mistaking one for the other.

Whether you’re a new writer seeking advice on taking the next step, or a fan of Slatter’s fiction looking for a glimpse behind the scenes, this chapbook is a peek into the mindset and philosophy of one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers of fantasy and horror.

 

 

 

 

 

Paperback $14.99 | Ebook $3.99 • 50 pp • ISBN 9781922479044
Release Date: January 18, 2021

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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ESSAYS IN THIS COLLECTION

  • How to Be A Writer
  • Online Presence: Pros, Perils and Possibilities
  • Time Moves Differently Here
  • Awards Don’t Matter
  • You Are Not Your Writing
  • The Writing Life: A Really Big Echo Chamber

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About The Author

Angela Slatter

Angela Slatter is the author of the gothic fantasy novels All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, and the forthcoming The Briar Book of the Dead (Titan Books), and the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books). She’s also written twelve short story collections, including The Girl with No Hands and Other Tales, Sourdough and Other Stories, The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, and A Feast of Sorrows: Stories, and the novellas, Of Sorrow and Such, Ripper and The Bone Lantern. Her Hellboy Universe collaboration with Mike Mignola, Castle Full of Blackbirds, was released in 2022.

Vigil was longlisted for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018, and Angela has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, two Australian Shadows Awards and eight Aurealis Awards. All the Murmuring Bones was shortlisted for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Awards’ Book of the Year and the Shirley Jackson Award. Angela’s short stories have appeared in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies. Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Dutch, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, Hungarian, Turkish, French and Romanian. Film rights have been optioned for her novelette ‘Finnegan’s Field’.

She has an MA and a PhD in Creative Writing, is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006, and in 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2016 Angela was the Established Writer-in-Residence at the Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre in Perth. She has been awarded career development funding by Arts Queensland, the Copyright Agency and the Australia Council for the Arts.

Find her online at www.angelaslatter.com

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