Joanne Anderton

Beta-Reader n

1. An awesome, amazing person who gives freely of their time, energy and expertise to read anything from a short story to a novel (sometimes more than once) and give valuable feedback

2. An awesome, amazing person who raises tricky, interesting questions to which I currently have no answers (but I’m sure we’ll find some [...]

I walk into the study, head full of grand promotional ideas and high on the possibilities of social media. Tanyana is sitting in my chair, playing with the suit on her right hand like it’s a Swiss army knife. The malleable metal slides out of the band around her wrist, coats her [...]

That’d be me. What is it about this time of year? It’s like a giant time-sucking black hole has opened up above my house and it’s vacuuming up the rest of the year while I’m sitting here, typing away furiously and otherwise shaking my fist at it.

Whew. Don’t worry, I have coffee and I’m not afraid [...]

So, I’m incubating a novel. This wasn’t an unplanned novel incubation, so the symptoms aren’t all that surprising. I knew the story I wanted to write next. I have worldbuilding ideas scribbled in a notebook and I met the main character and her dog a few months ago. But only recently, like in the past [...]

Oh hey, check it out, I seem to have an author page all of my very own over at Angry Robot Books.

Guess that means I DO exist! (and should probably stop procrastinating and get back to writing this short story…)