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Nov 11

Midnight Echo 3… coming soon!

By Joanne

Midnight Echo 3 is nearly here and looks suitably creepylicious! Can’t wait to see it.

In other news, I’ve had a minor back injury relapse. Not so bad I can’t sit and type, but bad enough to stop me sleeping soundly. Physio tortured me for a while today and hopefully we have caught it before it gets any worse!

In other, other news: novel revision started, then promptly stopped when I realised the first chapter was all wrong. So I wrote a short story and a half instead. But now I don’t know what happens next after that ‘half’ so it’s back to novel revisions.

If this sounds scattered it’s probably because that’s how I feel. Husband finishes college in a few weeks and we are going to take a short break away. We’re both feeling the crazies and can’t wait for a few days of doing nothing but bushwalking, beach swimming and reading reading reading!

Nov 03

Sinister Reads and the Stoker Awards

By Joanne

Sinister Reads is currently promoting members of the Australian Horror Writers Association who have been recommended for the annual Bram Stoker award with a series of posts about each author.

Watch this space 🙂

Nov 01

Shadow of Drought review

By Joanne

Midnight Echo #2 has been reviewed very positively over at the Specusphere, Shadow of Drought included:

Through many of the stories, there is a distinctive Australian feel, which will definitely draw some uneasy parallels to personal experiences for any Aussies who have ever ventured past their front door, particularly in Joanne Anderton’s “Shadow of Drought” for anyone who has travelled beyond the city limits. This story brought back vivid memories of visits to the drought-stricken countryside, and then took them several steps further.

I like this description!

Oct 15

Albatross Ghosts!

By Joanne

My author copies for Kaleidotrope #7 arrived today, and just in time. I’ve been thinking a lot recently about the world in which Albatross Ghosts is set, so it is great to see it in print. Ghosts and aliens and an apocalypse, oh-my!