Philippa Ballantine

It’s been two weeks since Geist went out into the world by itself. An exciting, crazy time in any authors time; first New York contract, first dive into the deep end of the pool. So far I am still alive. My first actual sighting of Geist was in Barnes and Noble, Union Square, San Francisco. [...]

My box of Geist are waiting for me in America, and I can’t wait to get my hands on them. I have however seen the very first example of Geist out in the wild. Those lovely folks over at the SF Signal apparently got their copy. And I must admit it’s pretty cool to see [...]

These are the months when all sorts of goodies are landing in my mailbox. Today it was these lovelies. Apparently they are called cover flats, and contain information to entice the bookseller. I found three interesting things They mention my podcast history- quoting the number of podcast downloads. (So keep that in mind podiobook authors) [...]

Swimming with the big fish still means I need to get the word out about Geist, and this has pretty much been consuming my life for the last month. One of the things I wanted to do was create a book trailer- but there was one big problem- yeah… my lack of video skills. Luckily [...]

I’ve been working hard of the site Books of the Order which is where I am putting all Geist related content You can subscribe right here so you don’t miss out- especially for the release of Chronicles of the Order. This short story podcast is turning out to be such fun, with writers such as [...]

The characteristics of the New Zealander are not naturally attuned to marketing. We are more bent towards egalitarianism, which is nice, but it also means ‘tooting your own horn’ is not generally looked upon as a good thing. However in all my years podcasting, and with the example of those that have gone before me [...]