Biography

Born in Wellington, New Zealand, Philippa has always had her head in a book. For this she blames her father who thought Lord of the Rings was suitable bedtime reading for an eight year old.

Later she studied English Literature and Politics at Victoria University, and found herself working in the magical world of libraries.

Her first professional sale was in 1997, and since then she has gone on to produce mostly novel length fiction.

She still lives in Wellington, New Zealand and is kept company by two Siberian cats, Sebastian and Viola.

Bibliography

Philippa Ballantine is represented by Laurie McLean of Larsen Pomada Agency

Novels

Geist – coming Fall 2010 from Ace Books

Spectre- coming 2011 from Ace Books

Digital Magic

Chasing the Bard

Weaver’s Web

Anthologies

A Taste of True Blood

Articles

While Editor of New Zealand history site on Suite101.com. 1999-2002

• William Larnach’s castle
• James Busby
• Chunuck Bair
• Grande Theatres of Wellington
• Katherine Mansfield
• Legendary creatures of New Zealand
• Von Tempsky- solider and more

Colonial Wellington revealed – The Dominion-1997

Short Stories

Miss Perfect – Woman’s Day (1998)

Kitty Karma – Woman’s Day (1998)

Technical Editing

All  a Twitter

Sams Teach Yourself Twitter in 10 minutes

Podcasting

List of complete podcast works