Angela Cleland / Cleland Smith

@angelacleland.co.uk

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Paul Hollywood, secretly 20,000 raspberries in a human-suit, offers up the GBBO signature cake, topped with sacrifices to tempt us to take the alien sugars into our bodies and submit to their control.
Black and white version of the cover of Black Doe.
Milk bottle with a red superhero figure on it wishing all a merry Christmas from Bates Dairy.
Candle with the following message on the label: Leaving. [lee-ving] verb. an incredible act of selfishness. the malicious abandoning of loyal friends and colleagues. escaping from a never ending nightmare. See also: traitor. And a coaster that reads: Please do not annoy the writer, SHE May put you in a book and kill you
Me hiding in the shade at my desk. I push the glasses up…the glasses slide down. Unsatisfactory.
Tabby kitty Maisie half-curled up on an orange sofa, ginger belly-fluff looking super-tempting.
Closeup of an ant busily dragging an entire pale brown spider corpse across out brick driveway.
Black Doe cover to the right, quote to the left: "This haunting historical epic will linger long after you finish reading.” - Lucy Holland
Black Doe jacket to the left, quote to the right. “Bloody and brilliant. Black Doe packs a hefty emotional punch among the fighting, plotting, magic and mythology of a time we know so little about." - Cameron Johnston
Me holding my old orange-topped Penguin edition of The Day of the Triffids featuring creatures that are a cross between pineapples and scrotums. Accurate, no. Horrifying, yes!
Tabby cat Maisie lying on an orange velvet sofa, with her head hidden behind a teal bee cushion which is propped up against the back of the sofa.
Cover of Black Doe by Cleland Smith, muted green with black graphic of the Pictish beast intertwined with a pine marten at the top right and bottom left, with quote to the left which reads: "Hauntingly beautiful, an exceptional book." - Anna Smith Spark
Cover of Black Doe by Cleland Smith, muted green with black graphic of the Pictish beast intertwined with a pine marten at the top right and bottom left, with quote to the right which reads: "A haunting, elemental tale of motherhood and sacrifice, seamlessly combining history and mythology with an authentic Scottish voice. Lyrical and gripping right up to the final incandescent page. One of the best Scottish fantasies I've ever had the pleasure of reading." - Neil Williamson
Copy of Black Doe by Cleland Smith, dark green with black Pictish beast and pine marten graphic in the top right and bottom left corners and the title central in white. Alongside a quote reads: "Beautifully written, Black Doe is a deft historical fantasy tale that manages to be both thrilling and heart-rending at once." - Shona Kinsella
Copy of Black Doe by Cleland Smith, dark green with black Pictish beast and pine marten graphic in the top right and bottom left corners and the title central in white. Alongside a quote reads: “Smith's historical fantasy novel takes a grim journey through myth-laden ancient Scotland following an assassin whose deadly mission evolves into a deeper struggle with identity and fate A harsh, evocative vision of Celtic lands where memory, violence, and myth shape every destiny." - Kirkus Reviews
Fluffy black cat squished across a grey fabric chair. He looks like he’s been put together all wrong.
Epic skyscape over Langley with fluffy white clouds to the left and a big black storm front coming on from the right.
“Historical Fiction ARCs You’ll Love” BookSirens graphic.
Massive carved oak bureau with lions head and green man drawer handles.
Angela Cleland sits at her bureau staring darkly up at the camera. Her desk is miraculously tidy. I wonder how long that took and how much stuff is hiding just out of shot.
My lovely leafy garden with my freshly washed hammock front and centre on the patio. A big curved wooden frame with a faded red and blue striped fabric hammock slung on it.
View of a plane’s wing from the window seat. The plane is flying over purpling sunset clouds. At the horizon a darker purple line meets a band of pink and gold, with the sky above it still blue.
Bright yellow novel Butter by Asako Yuzuki sitting on my dining table. The title is in red caps down the left hand side like a vertical street sign, a black and white cow faces head downwards in the centre of the design (falling?), red smears are foiled onto the bottom right of the book, as if someone with bloodied fingertips has snatched at it as they collapse.
Copy of Rebecca Perry’s “May We Feed The King” sitting on a wooden table with a red apple sitting to the right. The stalk of the apple leans in, subtly suggesting that the book will provide nourishment to the reader, a green flush around the stalk, colour within colour. Non nom nom.
My little pale green garden shed. The doos are cream and have windows with big transfers on them. A big fat sunbeam crosses the picture as if god himself is about to step out of the shed.
Amazon review which reads: one star, don't bother. A nasty concept that I simply couldn't finish. it left me feeling as though I needed a shower in disinfectant.
Screenshot from the Megadrive game “Stimpy’s Invention”. Ren and Stimpy sprites stand on two teeth in an otherwise empty gum, a nerve wiggling up from the tooth bed in front of them. A tree with creepy bloodshot eyes on the ends of its branches stares directly out of the screen at us. The ground receding into the distance is full of eyeballs. Logs float threatening in the sky above. Top tip - never play this game on magic mushrooms.
Black Doe novel surrounded by the very edges of other books.
Two cats, one cat, one tabby, sit side by side in loaf formation on a large geometric blue rug.
Two idiots, mother and child impersonate a sunfish, whilst standing next to a majestic stuffed sunfish.
Wide shot of the previous photo. Maisie, squished up against one end of the very long sofa. The very long sofa: empty.
Tabby cat, lying curled at the end of a blue sofa, face tucked and squashed uncomfortably against the arm as if there is NO ROOM whatsoever for her royal highness.
Picture of the book “Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin and the Dawn of Modern Science”.
Closeup of me reclining on the couch with a clingy Maisie cat getting comfortable right up in my face.
Fan lounge table with ARC of Black Doe in the middle, waiting to be swiped.
Book table at Eastercon recently tidied by some nice passerby.
Two necklaces side by side on a white hotel sheet. One is a silver band with bejewelled finials; the other a sweep of scale/spine metal.
Promotional postcard front and reverse for Black Doe.
Me peeking out from behind a copy of Black Doe.
A beautiful young woman sits aboard a train with a black bag over her head, deeply absorbed in Luke Kennard’s new novel Black Bag. Actually she may or may not be young and or beautiful. We cannot be sure because of the bag.
Me with new hair - light violet colour on top, blue underneath.
Copy of “Using Dreamweaver 4”
A tiny Viking runs in to the misty morning, silhouetted against a shrouded playing field, the bare branches of a tree framing the scene above and to the left.
Copy of Black Doe. Green cover on a white worktop. Bold title with a knife intersecting the “o” of Doe. An intertwined kelpie and pine marten grace each corner.
My hand holding an ARC copy for Black Doe. Green fabric print cover with a kelpie and pine marten design in the top right and bottom left corner.
Cavetown on stage with audience in the foreground from above. Purple and blue rays of light project out from the stage.
Cover of the picture book “Poke!” by Angela Cleland. A little girl with curly hair and a green dress reaches up from the bottom left of the blue cover to poke the title.
Illustration of a frog being poked on the leg by a little girl. He is staring at her as if to say - uh, what are you doing?
Illustration of two green and yellow birds sitting on a branch. Looking warily to the side.
Illustration of an innocent little hedgehog, about to be poked on the head by a little girl (out of shot).
An illustration of a long haired grumpy tabby cat perched on a footstool, one eye open and staring accusingly.
Top down view of a table with white lace-edged table cloth. A folded card sign which reads “Ring to Read” in an art deco font sits on a green and white rectangular doily. To the right sits a large brass desk bell with a dark wooden base, itching to be rung.
Page from “No, Robot, No”. A concrete poem in the shape of Maximilian from The Black Hole. Printed on an aged and stained page, titled “Know Your Robots”. At the bottom of the page a caption reads “Who to trust in a mechanical world”.
Paperback copy of Carpathian Castle by Jules Verne featuring Green zombies.
A twisted tree reaches upwards, away from the camera into a clear blue sky. In the left foreground is the ringed remains of a broad trunk that once diverged from the tree’s leader.
Two stickers side by side, one purple, one lime. The purple reads “I write: fiction, poetry, non-fiction” with white tick circles by each. The line is the same, but reads “I read…” The capital “N” on non-fiction has a little flourish on it that swoops across and made it look a bit like an R. But the rest of it is so pretty.
Image of Project Hanuman by Stewart Hotston in paperback, its resplendent black-green cover foreshortened against a white worktop.
Preview of email from Medik8 skincare, reading “20% off glowing skin staples”
Black and white picture of a person with a sword fighting a skeleton that says "What are the four character classes? Wrong answers only"
Scottish woodland. A stream trickling over a rocky downhill slope away from the camera, the Cromarty firth shining through the bare silhouetted trees.