Joanne Anderton – Page 52 – Speculative fiction, non-fiction, children's books…anything with words

Jun 14

What a week!

By Joanne

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 into revision tomorrow!

Jun 08

Oh look! An exciting opportunity to vote!

By Joanne

*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.

Jun 05

Black cockatoo madness

By Joanne

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.

What is it about rain and pinecones that gets these gorgeous birds so excited? Could be something deep and meaningful in that… if I was a deep and meaningful person.

Jun 03

Whew!

By Joanne

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 tell you, was one of them. Started it’s short story life feeling dark and quirky, but by the time I got to the ending I was hurting for the main character. For all the characters, actually. And as endings go it wasn’t all that bad. Not for me, anyway.

The ending was also written almost exclusively to Porcupine Tree‘s ‘Collapse the Light into Earth’ from In Absentia. Anyone familiar with that song (if you’re not, I gotta say, seek ye their albums and purchase!) will know where the whole thing was coming from.

Now, I need a glass of wine.

May 29