Joanne Anderton

Author's posts

Mar 15

Dealing with it

By Joanne

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 …

Mar 07

Getting a move on

By Joanne

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! …

Mar 04

More frying pan news!

By Joanne

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 …

Mar 01

And we’re back at it!

By Joanne

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 …

Feb 25

Quick post about a review

By Joanne

What more do you need to know? Found a review of Australian Dark Fantasy and Horror Vol 3 at Dark Scribe Magazine the other day, one that actually mentions ‘Trail of Dead’. Considering the extremely high calibre of stories in this antho, I’m stoked to get a mention: Joanne Anderton also ventures into Romero territory …