When you don’t update your website for too long you have to play catch up. In between finishing my Masters of Arts in Creative Writing (hooray!) and travelling around the world a few times (also hooray!) I’ve managed to promote The Flying Optometrist and publish a few short stories (all the hoorays!)
Let’s start with The Art of Broken Things from Mother of Invention, published by Twelfth Planet Press in September 2018.
Edited by Rivqa Rafael and Tansy Rayner Roberts, Mother of invention is a speculative fiction anthology of diverse, challenging stories about gender and artificial intelligence. I’m so thrilled to be a part of it! My contribution is a story of love, loss and failure, inspired by the art of Kintsugi.
You can purchase copies here.
It received a great 4-star review in Bookseller and Publisher here. Also wonderful coverage from the likes of Tor.com and Strange Horizons.
Up next we have I Almost Went to the Library Last Night, from Aurum: A Golden Anthology of Original Australian Fantasy published by Ticonderoga Publications, in October 2018.
Edited by Russell B. Farr, Aurum contains seven original novellas from some of Australia’s premier fantasy writers. In these pages you’ll find trolls and angels, princes and puritans, cats and captives, and master crafters of materials and machines. I’m honoured to be included, along with Juliet Marillier, Lucy Sussex, Cat Sparks, Stephanie Gunn, Angela Rega, and Susan Wardle. What amazing company to be in!
Copies can be purchased here.
It was reviewed by Publishers Weekly who described my story as: ‘Joanne Anderton’s grim “I Almost Went to the Library Last Night” is a frenetic cyberpunk tale of a resourceful young man, a teenage girl, and an injured child who survive the mass zombification of the populace through nanomachines.’ I don’t think I could have said it better myself.
