Joanne Anderton

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What a week!

Sales conference time at work. That means half the week spent meeting publishers and authors, hearing about new books and eating a lot of food. Second half of the week devoted to an avalanche of post-conference work. I still have exhaustion. And we looked at appliances this morning for the new kitchen. Didn’t help. Back …

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Oh look! An exciting opportunity to vote!

*cough* Sooo, if anyone feels they would like to vote for a story by yours truly, please, don’t let me hold you back! Just pop over to Niteblade. My story, ‘Demons and Gin’ eagerly awaits your support 🙂 /rare self-promotional broadcast.

Black cockatoo madness

After a day of pouring rain the clouds let up just enough to brighten into yellow, darken to orange, then fade finally to a bruise-deep purple. As I drove home the black cockatoos were doing their crazy weather dance in the sky, twisting and diving like the air was water and gravity didn’t touch them. …

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Whew!

Some stories are emotional to write. Or maybe more emotional than others? You’d rather hope every story had some kind of emotion… What I mean is some stories take more out of you when you’re throwing them down on the page. I just finished the first draft of a short story and that, let me …

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This website thing is easy…

…when you have wonderful talented friends to help you. Thanks Jeremy for tinkering with this little website and making it that much better! It’s on public record mate, I owe you a drink.