What To Do When You Don't Have A Book Coming Out & Even More Sage Advice

Angela Slatter

Mar 2022 · Writer Chaps Book 7 · Brain Jar Press

About this ebook

“Your career is unlikely to be a constant stream of hits, accolades, festival circuits — and that’s kind of good, because if you’re constantly on-the-road, it’s hard to write and create.”

​​​​​​​In these essays, Angela Slatter — the celebrated author of the Sourdough stories, the Verity Fassbinder series, and (as A.G. Slatter) All The Murmuring Bones — tackles just what it takes to sustain a writing career after your book has launched.

Building on years of blog posts, keynotes, and articles, What To Do When You Don’t Have A Book Coming Out explores ways you stay visible and sustain a writing career, with advice on doing public readings, applying for grants, engaging with your community, and surviving the fallow periods when the next release seems very distant.

Whether you’re a new writer trying to plot out your career, or an existing fan of Slatter’s writing looking for yet more sage advice, this chapbook provides a second look at the philosophy and processes of one of Australia’s most acclaimed writers of fantasy and horror.

About the author

Angela Slatter was born in 1967 in Australia. She is a graduate of Clarion South 2009 and the Tin House Summer Writers Workshop 2006. She has a Masters (Research) in Creative Writing. In 2013 she was awarded one of the inaugural Queensland Writers Fellowships. In 2010, she published two short story collections: Sourdough & Other Stories with Tartarus Press (UK) and The Girl with No Hands & Other Tales. Her novella St Dymphna's School for Poison Girls won an Aurealis Award in 2014 in the Fantasy Short Story category. In 2015 she won a World Fantasy Award in the best collection category with her title The Bitterwood Bible and Other Recountings. She co-authored two books with Lisa L. Hannett, Midnight and Moonshine and The Female Factory. Her novella Sorrow and Such won the 2016 Ditmar Awards for Best Novella or Novelette.