Joanne Anderton

Someone reminded me that I haven’t blogged in a while. This is not a good state of affairs! So, updatery

Suited revision is finished, and ms off to beta-readers. I’ve decided that calls for some time off. I’ve been struggling for the past few weeks, feeling burned out writing-wise. So, I’m taking a fortnight [...]

How do writers deal with depressing news? I dunno about other writers but this one:

Drinks of a lot of wine
Takes a few days off to hang out with friends and husband (people well skilled in the art of ‘making you feel better’)
Makes two delicious varieties of home made pesto, from the forest of home grown [...]

Is what I really need to be doing. My beta-readers are super-efficient and wonderful so I need to knuckle down and do some work!

So I will! But… trying to work out WorldCon plans. And need to head to the shops too. Oh and there’s some proof-reading heading my way. And look, now I’m blogging! *tisk [...]

Out of the Frying Pan is up on the Finch Publishing website, looking extremely official (and still very bright!). It will be out in all good bookstores by the end of the month. It even looks like there will be a book launch (in Perth, sigh, which I cannot afford to get to *weep*). More [...]

That was a lovely break, wasn’t it?

Yesterday I went through my notes for this series, right from the research I did at the very beginning. I wanted to make sure that things were still on track, that even though the story has changed a lot from those preliminary ideas I am still maintaining the integrity [...]