Podcasting

  • Chronicles of the Order (coming Fall 2010) - Serialized short stories in the world of Geist.
  • Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences (coming Spring 2011) – Serialized short stories from a world of steam and adventure.
  • Digital Magic (2009)- A serialized podcast novel. The sequel to the award winning podcast novel Chasing the Bard. Penherem is a quaint, sleepy English village where people go to escape the 21st Century. Hiding from the world of laptop computers, the Internet, and wireless communication, is Ella. A writer, now barren of ideas and drive, she resigns herself to a quiet life of solitude. Everything changes with the arrival of a shapeshifting thief. Suddenly, everyone begins to change–from the local librarian to the lady of the manor–revealing their true natures and dangerous secrets. Something in this sleepy English village is awakening… something that might be better left alone.
  • Weather Child (2009) - A serialized podcast novel. The first podcast novel set totally in New Zealand. Step back in time and sideways into an alternate world, where magicians and seraphim are found only on the shores of the Long White Cloud. Between two world wars, Jack and Faith find themselves unravelling a conspiracy to turn the Awakened children of Aoteroa to dark purposes.
  • Chasing the Bard (2008) - Winner of the Sir Julius Vogel Award for Fan Production 2009. A serialized podcast novel. Also available at podiobooks.com Born into the human world with a gift; a gift that brings him to the attention of powers both dark and light from the World of the Fey, it is his burden to defend all the world.  Sive, the goddess of battle, hopes that he may be able to change the fate of her people.The Fey are dying, killed by something beyond the boundaries of worlds, and Sive will do anything to save them. So she enlists the help of her trickster cousin Puck to guard the child, and watch him grow into his gift. But a dark power imprisoned by human and Fey, plots to destroy both worlds, and unmake all that they have created.
  • Whispers at the Edge - (currently on a irregular schedule) Award nominated podcast about being a writer on the edge of the map. Inspiration, opinion and a slice of New Zealand.
  • Erotica a la carte – Finalist for the 2009 Parsec award for Best Anthology (2008- ongoing) The audience votes on the ingrediants, and once a month the author produces erotic speculative fiction. An experiment in both writing and podcasting.
  • Weaver’s Web -  (2006) Ashi’mei’s world is doomed. And yet there are two from beyond the island who may help, one a passionate young man from their traditional enemy, and the other a compelling creature with mastery of the flesh to rival the menace beyond the sea. With friends and clan her only hope, the time to stand and fight has come. Ashi’mei must search within herself for salvation for her people, face her darkest fears, and risk everything she loves.

Reviews of podcasts

Chasing the Bard

Brother Osric’s Scriptorium – “Her vocal training, combined with her marvelous New Zealand accent, enable her to sound like Royalty when she so desires. (Specious rumor has it that she has been contracted to read the Wellington telephone directory for public television.)”

View from Valhalla – “…one of the first two books I ever purchased because of what the author gave to us for free. Ms. Ballantine continues to deliver content that I would gladly pay for and if you haven’t listened to CTB yet, you need to make time to do so.”

The Podagogue – “Ballantine writes fantasy that is enchanting and compelling, weaving the multiple worlds of the fey and human together with grace and skill. The fantastic realm that lies but a breath beyond our own is composed with delicate crafting, Ballantine’s worldbuilding carefully disguised as setting and character. And when the need arises, Ballantine can turn to the dark and brutal with as much skill as she writes of charm and love.”

Weather Child

View from Valhalla - “… a beautiful and deeply personal story. Ms. Ballantine has drawn from her own family history to flesh out some of the characters, and it is an investment that is palpable. I love a well done historical fantasy, and Weather Child is very well done indeed. This is a story that exudes pain and sorrow, but never loses faith in the possibility of redemption.”

Podcasts where Philippa can be found

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