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. At the age of thirteen she began writing fantasy stories for herself.

She first earned a Bachelor of Arts in English Literature and Political Science and then a Bachelor of Applied Science in Library and Information Science. So soon enough she found herself working in the magical world of libraries where she stayed for over a decade.

Her first professional sale was in 1997, and since then she has gone on to produce mostly novel length fiction. In 2006 she became New Zealand’s first podcast novelist, and she has voiced and produced Weaver’s Web, Chasing the Bard, Weather Child and Digital Magic as podiobooks. Her podcasts have been short listed for the Parsec Awards, and won a Sir Julius Vogel award.

When not writing or podcasting, Philippa loves reading, gardening, and whenever possible traveling.

She still lives in Wellington where her two Siberian cats, Sebastian and Viola make sure she stays out of trouble.

Bibliography

Philippa Ballantine is represented by Laurie McLean of Larsen Pomada Agency

Novels

Massmarket

Geist – coming Fall 2010 from Ace Books

Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Phoenix Rising- coming Summer 2011 from Eos

Spectyr- coming 2011 from Ace Books

Ministry of Peculiar Occurences: Her Voice Silenced- Coming 2012 form Eos

Trade paperback

Digital Magic- DragonMoon Press (2008)

Chasing the Bard- DragonMoon Press (2005)

E-published

Weaver’s Web- Writer’s Exchange (2002)

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