Joanne Anderton

I have a confession to make: as usual, I tried to cram a holiday in and around going to a convention. When will I learn, right? It just seemed like such a pity for the husband and I to fly across the country and not do holiday things, you know? So that’s what we did [...]

I’m SO far behind, thanks primarily to a week in Perth. There, I had a wonderful time at Swancon/NatCon (where I sat on my first panel ever and did a reading from Debris) and had an equally wonderful time doing holiday-related things with the husband. I have photos (mainly of quokkas) and a HUGE pile [...]

Recently? Eaten a LOT. Drunk way too MUCH. And enjoyed every minute of it, thank you.

Somehow I felt like I’ve deserved it. The end of the year has been a bit of a battle. Mix up novel revisions with a bout of the flu and a bad back and what else could you call it, [...]

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 [...]

Yesterday I received a belated birthday present from a dear and wonderful friend, who also happens to be an extremely talented writer. She’s at home in Sri Lanka now, having spent years studying and then working in Australia, and I miss her a LOT (and am trying to work out when I can go visit [...]