Joanne Anderton

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Breathtaker in ASIM #44

My copy of ASIM #44 arrived the other day. Due to an unfortunate post office incident it looked like it had travelled all around the country, and the envelope gained stamps and scribbles every step of the way. But, apart from being bent and shoved into my mail box, the actual mag came through its …

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Worlds Next Door!

A very exciting package arrived this morning. It was Worlds Next Door! The book looks absolutely amazing, and I’m thrilled to have my story Graffiti in it. My husband, Gaston, has artwork in it too. Navi was way too sleepy to bless this one, unfortunately. She did kinda lean away from it though, so I’ll take …

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Massage Therapy

Good for knotted backs, and knotted plot problems. Unbound Well, that’s it. First draft done. I’m not 100% sure about the ending, and I have a few pages worth of notes to start revision with, but I think (hope?) that most of it is in pretty good nick. What did I learn from his novel? …

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Story Spruiking

My wonderful writing buddy Rabia has a story up at Flash Me magazine at the moment. She’s a great writer who I admire a lot, so I totally recommend popping over there and having a read! It’s short and… well… not that sweet actually. Kinda dark. But we like it that way, don’t we. *evil …

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It’s kinda like playing dress-ups, except you can do it in your pjs and it drives you mad

I have taken this week off work to finish Unbound. The ending is kicking my arse and I seem to be oscillating between book-love and book-hate, like, three times in the past fifteen minutes. Also learning that pretending to be a full-time writer ain’t all fun and kittens and sparkle. Spending all day with invisible …

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