My deepest gratitude to the Australia Council for the Arts as their support made the writing of All the Murmuring Bones possible.
Thanks to Meg Davis, agent extraordinare, Queen of the Silver Ideas.
Thanks to Cath Trechman for her wonderful and intuitive editing.
Thanks to Ron and Stephen for the sanctuary.
Thanks to J.S. Breukelaar, Angie Rega and Suzanne Willis, Neil Snowdon, Maria Haskins and Lisa L. Hannett for comments and support.
To note: Delphine the automaton is a nod to both Nike Sulway’s Rupetta and to the dolls made with slivers of souls that appear in “A Porcelain Soul”, one of the tales in Sourdough and Other Stories.
The title All the Murmuring Bones, is adapted from a line in Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Angela Slatter is the author of the supernatural crime novels Vigil, Corpselight and Restoration (Jo Fletcher Books), the novellas Of Sorrow and Such and Ripper, as well as ten 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. Vigil was nominated for the Dublin Literary Award in 2018. She has won a World Fantasy Award, a British Fantasy Award, a Ditmar, an Australian Shadows Award and six Aurealis Awards. Her short stories have appeared regularly in Australian, UK and US Best Of anthologies.
Her work has been translated into Bulgarian, Chinese, Russian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, Polish, French and Romanian. 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.
All The Murmuring Bones is her first book for Titan and will be followed in 2022 by Morwood. Both are gothic fantasies set in the world of the Sourdough and Bitterwood collections. Follow her on Twitter @AngelaSlatter.
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