The nest we've made the last 8 days in Perth is @moco151official and it's been superb! Highly recommended. And yes, that is the manuscript of Our Lady of Battles, which I'm editing... 💚

We’d like to thank Nuremberg in 2028 for running alongside us in the race to win the 2028 Worldcon. And while they’ve now stepped away from the race, we’re a better bid for having had the competition.

Site Selection for the 2028 Worldcon is now open! Only members of LAconV can vote. The $50 USD voting fee gets you a WSFS membership to the 2028 Worldcon with access to Hugo Nominating and Voting and the Hugo Voter's Packet. And the winning bid gets that money up front to help finance the Worldcon.

Good people of Perth: I'm sorry, I have signed MOUNTAINS of books. They are at @stefensbooks and can be exchanged for cashy money... Please go and relieve the kind bookfolk of these things.

Just supported the Brisbane WorldCon bid for 2028. How nice to have it in one's own backyard and not having to schlep internationally for a change! www.brisbane28.org #brisbanein28

I am happier than I appear. Photo is proof of leaving room AGAIN. Ditmars! The dress has pockets.

Tiny swatches testing colours and masking techniques (not style or anatomy!) for clouds, etc. with Hipkiss ‘s special edition of @angelaslatter.bsky.social ‘s Path of Thorns eventually.

Just chaired a panel on “Adding a sense of the mythic” feat. @samanthamurray.bsky.social @kaaronwarren.bsky.social @angelaslatter.bsky.social and @fearofemeralds.bsky.social , all of whom were not only very interesting but also very good sports about having my moderating style sprung on them

The face of someone who works from home and speaks to maybe 7 people per week. If I start to look like this at you, dear SwanCon folk, I'm not preparing to bite, but I might say that I have to check the perimeter.

Launched this morning at SwanCon - early, mini launch - now all these books at @stefensbooks will be locked up and hidden away until 9 June! Except for the book club event on Tues 2 June... First folk in Australia to have this tome!

Tbh I think my greatest moment in this one was warning against "duckus ex machina" in stories.

Tomorrow The Sourdough Compendium gets its mini launch at SwanCon at the Big Beautiful Book Launch!! Perth, if you're looking for early release copies...

SwanCon, tomorrow morn, The Horrors Persist - But So Do We. @kaaron_warren @kirstyn_mcdermott and I will discuss a variety of things that take our collective fancy, all of them around the enduring genre of gothic horror, writing careers, motivation & how to keep going. Check your program for deets.

🖤 Best Novella: THE COLD HOUSE by @angelaslatter.bsky.social

Noticing the scam emails are now including a line like "I know many scam emails do these things, but I am not a scam email!" then proceeds to do all the scam email things. Hmmmm, sounds like something a scam email might do...

The Shirley Jackson Award nominees have been announced! Massive congrats to everyone on the list - and especially Aussies @angelaslatter.bsky.social and @kaaronwarren.bsky.social! www.shirleyjacksonawards.org/2026/05/28/n... #OceaniaSFF #AustralianSFF

Lovely evening at Melville City Libraries! Story Moods workshop, followed by an in-conversation with @angelaslatter.bsky.social And more to come! Swancon, Stefen’s Books and Joondalup.

SCREAMING! The Cold House has been shortlisted for a Shirley Jackson Award in the novella category! The full lists are here and I'm in excellent company www.shirleyjacksonawards.org - congratulations to all the finalists. 💚💚

I and my very pretty, very chonky book are at SwanCon this weekend and will be part of the Big Beautiful Book Launch on Sunday morning (details on the SwanCon program)... Thanks to @caitlin.rozakis and Adrian Tchaikovsky for the lovely quotes! 😊😊

Salvation’s Child is now the fourth bestselling graphic novel in the UK! And top of the SF graphic novel chart! www.amazon.co.uk/gp/bestselle...

Unsolicited writing advice, no. 10: People read for many reasons. Sometimes it's because they recognize fine writing. Most of the time it's for something else; plot; character; a world; an idea. Don't dismiss the books you dislike as "populist." Try to understand what readers found to love in them.

Beautifully written piece about three of my favourite story collections. Stunningly beautiful short stories/novels in mosaic by @angelaslatter.bsky.social I've been itching for this collection, not so much for me but so I can buy it for friends who missed the orig. editions & need it in their lives.

The Sourdough Compendium Review: A. G. Slatter’s Gothic Triumph https://gnofhorror.com/the-sourdough-compendium-review-a-g-slatter/

One of the most beautiful, insightful reviews I've ever seen of my work. Thank you @gnofhorror.com 💚

I have seen the cover for Our Lady of Battles and I am delighted.

It’s Mary Anning’s birthday, so time to share @katebeaton.bsky.social’s brilliant cartoon again.

This morning's reading...

We’re delighted to announce that Titan Books will be publishing two new novels and a novella by @angelaslatter.bsky.social, all set in the fairy-tale inspired Sourdough Universe! 🪄✨ Publishing from October 2028 onwards beginning with the horror romance novella TOOTH & CLAW!

@angelaslatter.bsky.social has signed a three-book deal with @titanbooks.bsky.social for two novels and a novella set in Slatter’s dark fantasy, fairy-tale inspired Sourdough Universe. 👇

And further to our recently posted interview...

Oh, hai! Book news. Sourdough world book news. 😊😘💚 www.thebookseller.com/rights/titan...

If like me you enjoy gothic fantasy with central women characters but romantasy isn't your cup of tea, you might also enjoy @angelaslatter.bsky.social 's excellent books. Her heroines have their loves and their doubts, but they are focused on getting shit done.

A truly badly staged post of such beautiful cards. Art by @tanaudel for original (and utterly unavailable) The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings, in card form, words by me.

Meet @angelaslatter.bsky.social! Based in Brisbane, Slatter's work runs the gamut from contemporary horror to folk horror to gothic fantasy and fairytales. Recurring themes are the position of women in society, female agency, redemption, recovery, sisterhood, revelation of long-buried secrets.

Proof of life and out of the house.

This is the situation I refer to the most when trying to explain a the state of book bans right now. Utah has state mandated book destruction for books like Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood, and Damsel by Elana K Arnold. The vast majority of the books are written by women.

She's coming!

On 28 May, @tanaudel & I will be doing an Authors In-Conversation: A Tangle of Tales event for City of Melville Libraries. 'Tis free but bookings are essential! Further details at the link below. www.melvillecity.com.au/things-to-do...

A gorgeous quote from the most excellent @almakatsu 💙 "A fairy tale for the true crime era: a wicked stepmother, a beast of a serial killer, and a determined heroine who invites the darkness into her damaged heart. Beautiful, bleak, violent, satisfying." - Alma Katsu, author of Incarnate

Oh, in the mail! Bookmarks and postcards from @titanbooks to go with The Sourdough Compendium 💚💚💚 She's on her way, out next month! #agslatter #thesourdoughcompendium #darkfairytales #gothicfairytales #titanbooks

Just finished an ugly first draft of my first Sourdough short story since 2020. Feels good to weave something wild and wicked again. Art by @tanaudel from the Tallow-Wife collection.

A FOREST, DARKLY by @angelaslatter.bsky.social is a page-turning dark fantasy of persecuted witches, snatched children, twisted magic, changelings and the sins that bind. ✨ Out now! https://bit.ly/47G8T9E

A rewatch of Murderbot is good for the soul.

A lovely @lindyryanwrites cover blurb! "Lush, haunting, and drenched in fairy-tale dread, Fitcher’s Bird is folk horror at its finest. Slatter weaves trauma, sisterhood, and folklore into something both deeply human and deliciously monstrous—proving yet again that she is a mistress of the genre." 💙

In celebration of the ROGUE TROOPER PREMIER being announced at the magnificent ANNECY INTERNATIONAL ANIMATION FILM FESTIVAL & MARKET this June, (that was a mouthful,) clamp your sensors on these POSTERS from Paolo Rivera and Chris Weston respectively-

Just finished the new novella. By Fire, By Water clocked in at 32k. It's a dumpster fire of hot garbage, but it's finished! And editing (plus lipstick and foundation) covers a multitude of sins.

AU/NZ Kobo promotion! All the Murmuring Bones, The Path of Thorns, The Briar Book of the Dead and The Crimson Road are all featuring on AU/NZ Kobo deals from today, May 4th to May 24th. kobo.com/p/may-the-bo... #koboaunz #allthemurmuringbones #thepathofthorns #thecrimsonroad #thebriarbookofthedead

I just backed Widdershins on @kickstarter.com www.kickstarter.com/projects/all...

The flower moon for Beltane.