Joanne Anderton

I need to remember that I can’t fix everything in this book in one go, and that I won’t even get a clear picture of the overall structure until I read the whole thing! Got to stop pulling my hair out over everything, calm down, and take it one step at a time.

Much to be [...]

As I mentioned a while ago, Sinister Reads is doing a series of posts about Aussie authors recommended for the Bram Stoker award. See, turns out Shadow of Drought has been recommended for the short fiction category, amidst some absolutely fantastic company. Check us all out!

This is a very tiny first step in a very [...]

So, after a vigorous internal debate I did not rearrange the structure of the beginning quite as drastically as I first thought. No matter what I tried the new structure just threw up a whole set of problems of its own. So instead, I tried to work out what was so wrong with it, why [...]

If this novel draft is a house, then this revision is the kind of renovation where the only thing that stays the same are the numbers out the front.

Eeek, I know, analogy torture.

I’ve come to the weighty decision that the structure of the entire beginning is wrong. Time to cut, rearrange, paste then smooth over [...]

Taking a short break from hacking up my lungs here to say Midnight Echo 3 has arrived! My twisted little story, Little Ghost Boy, is in some fantastic company there. I’ve already spent my payment on pre-ordering ‘Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol 4′ from Brimstone Press.

*cough hack*

The new Devin Townsend album is helping me [...]