Philippa Ballantine - Author

Award-winning Author of fantasy, science fiction, and steampunk

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Dirty and sweet…

Two podcasts in less than 24 hours! Yes I am both proud and exhausted. The first episode of Erotica a la carte is online (don’t forget to keep voting so I can keep writing) as well as a new episode of Whispers at the Edge. I am slowly pulling all my webpages and podcasts to Dreamhost and there will be some changes, the most important one right now, is that the feed for Whispers at the Edge has moved.

I am nearly done with some additional scenes in Geist and then… well then I will have to see if that Tee Morris character is ready to do some writing with me.

It’s tricky, tricky, tricky…

My reading of Jeremiah Tolbert’s Arties are Stupid is live at Escape Pod. Once I started doing it I realised that reading someone else’s story is a completely different to reading your own work. I was half into it before understanding I was interpreting someone else’s baby.

Reading your own stuff is easy by comparison. So it was a real relief to know the author liked my reading. Phew!

Thanks to Steve Ely for giving me the chance to read for Escape Pod. We met at DragonCon, where my recollection is he shouted at me (during the Books and Blackwell Party) ‘you’re all over the podosphere- would you like to read for me?’ I was pleased at both statements!

I have a recording for StarShip Sofa to read which is much longer, but just as scary. But then, as writer and podcaster I believe it is good to be scared now and then.

Darling I say goodbye…

Closing off a project is hard. Especially when it is one as delightfully unexpected as the Chasing the Bard podcast has been. I’ve been blown away by the response to my little tale. The number of people who have called, written and contributed was something I never expected.

So the final bonus episode is posted- something I was putting off subconciously. It was a good way to end it. It you want a listen, check out the Will homage. Of course, the wonder that is the internet means the show continues on for those that have not heard it yet, so that continuing feedback I will appreciate.

Still I am a little blue…