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		<title>Alien: Inferno’s Fall</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2022 14:50:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m excited for 2022, and it all has to do with my favorite movie of all time. At university watching Aliens on repeat, learning every line, and admiring Ripley&#8217;s strength and perseverance, I never imagined that I would be writing within that very same universe all these decades later. Alien as a series has birthed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>An Old Idea Made New</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jun 2017 13:34:16 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few years ago, you may remember, I had a podcast called Erotica a la Carte. I offered up polls for listeners to fill in, which picked out a bunch of &#8216;ingredients&#8217;â€”actually plots, characters, scenesâ€”which I then used to write stories. They were all erotic speculative fiction. I had a blast doing it. It pushed [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>What I Learned from Bad Movies</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2017/04/28/what-i-learned-from-bad-movies/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Apr 2017 14:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week I have been watching a lot of Mystery Science Theatre 3000 with my husband Tee Morris. He was very surprised I had never actually watched this show before, but I explained to him&#160;it never made it to New Zealand. We didn&#8217;t get everything after all. Now after a massively successful Kickstarter campaign, it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>First Event of 2017</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Feb 2017 14:08:44 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend I&#8217;ll be at Farpoint in Timonium, Maryland. I&#8217;ll have a table in the dealer&#8217;s room, where you can buy signed copies of my books. I&#8217;ll also be appearing at the following panels during the weekend. Saturday 10am Publishing in 2017 &#8211; Chesapeake 1 10.40am Author Reading &#8211; Art Show 12pm Beggars and Chosers: [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>When Everything Burns…</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/12/16/when-everything-burns/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Dec 2016 14:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;sounds ominous, but it is. 2016 has been a hard year for what seems like the majority of people around me. It hasn&#8217;t been a terrible year for my family as a whole (massive touch wood, since we still have a few more days left), but perhaps I should have listened when David Bowie died [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Story Matters</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/09/23/the-story-matters/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Sep 2016 14:22:12 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Iron Lily]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Lately with all the negative and frankly terrifying things in the news, I have been thinking about the importance of story. In a world of turmoil, how can stories and words possibly matter? As an author you can feel super small in that sea of vitriol and violence. Like you are throwing stones into an [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cover reveal – Hunter &amp; Fox</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Aug 2016 20:38:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Hold on there Pip, is probably what you are thinking. Did you just jump into the Tardis and head back to 2012? Well, dear reader, we live in a brand new world of publishing, and since I am *ta DAH* a hybrid writer, I love using all kinds of publishing tools to keep the roof [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Young Adult and Me</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/08/05/young-adult-and-me/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Aug 2016 14:52:32 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This week is the cover reveal for The Curse of the Silver Pharaoh. This is the first book Tee and I have written a specifically Young Adult story, and it is a little nerve wracking&#8230;after all it is some time since I was a YA myself&#8230;quite some time&#8230;. However, I do remember the stories I [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our friend Old Yeller</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/07/08/our-friend-old-yeller/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jul 2016 14:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In a recent Shared Desk, I talked with Tee Morris and Lauren Harris about quitting on&#160;a book. It&#8217;s a fun podcast about quite a hard decision. Have a listen if you haven&#8217;t already. However&#160;I decided to go into it in bit more depth, since it is a big decision for an author. When should you [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Rebelling…on all the things</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2016 20:28:04 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#160; The Ghost Rebellion has now been released to the general public. Yep, it is out there in the wild. After&#160;$21,837 raised in the Kickstarter, an epic photoshoot with Michael Ward of Go ForWard, wrestling words with Katie Bryski and Jennifer Melzer, recording ten hours of audio, editing it, and all the nervousness possible, book [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>In Love with the Imaginary</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/05/28/in-love-with-the-imaginary/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 May 2016 01:14:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So right now, if you are on any kind of social media you will see the outrage about Captain America. If you have somehow managed to avoid it, SPOILER ALERT&#8230; &#8230;. &#8230;. &#8230;.. In the latest comic, Captain America is revealed to have been a Hydra agent this whole time. Yes, creators just made Cap [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Historical research for authors</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/05/20/historical-research-for-authors/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2016 22:10:43 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Before becoming a full-time writer, I spent thirteen years working as a research librarian in the corporate environment. My favourite part of the job was hunting down answers to questions, and I have kept hold of that passion throughout my writing career. If you notice a lot of my writing is involved in history, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fantasy and Romance, and the grey space in between</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/05/07/fantasy-and-romance-and-the-grey-space/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sat, 07 May 2016 20:23:12 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having just returned from the RT Booklovers Convention, I have spent the last few weeks musing over the differences and similarities between romance and fantasy and science fiction. You see, here is my confession. When I was a teenager, probably about sixteen, I purchased my first romance novel to read. Now, I was a huge [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Full time hybrid writer, and full time juggler</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/04/29/full-time-writer-full-time-juggler/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Apr 2016 14:22:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This year is coming up on half done, and already I feel like one of those jugglers with the flaming sticks leaping from hand to hand. One comes down threatening to burn my right, and I have to get another one flying from my left. However, guess what&#8230;I love that feeling. It&#8217;s so much better [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Romance and Vegas</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/04/22/romance-and-vegas/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Apr 2016 13:28:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been quite a month! First the intense writing experience of Smoky Writing Retreat, and then only two weeks later off to Vegas. RT Book LoversÂ Convention is one of the biggest gatherings of romance writers in the country, and a full on experience in itself. It&#8217;s also one of those traveling conventions. Last year [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Find that community…write that thing…</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/04/01/find-that-community-write-that-thing/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Apr 2016 18:39:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[After coming back from the Smoky Writers Retreat, I am suffering from the usual post-retreat blues. Cooking dinner, and getting back into my usual routine seems like such a drag. Even writing again is hard. Luckily, I have been expecting this. A whole week of companionship, good food, and lots of words, coming home can [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/03/18/retreating-to-the-mountains/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Mar 2016 12:48:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[This weekend, Tee and I are lucky enough to be heading to Tenesse for the 3rd Smoky Mountains Writing Retreat. Honestly, it is something I look forward every year, with the craving of a parched man in the desert has for a glass of water. Alex White organised the first one in 2014, and it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Face of Your Story</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/03/11/the-face-of-your-story/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2016 14:09:28 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Facebook certainly has developed a way to remind you rather forcefully of the passing of time. Yes, logging onto Facebook this morning, the memories popped up and reminded me it was six years ago that I was shown my cover art for Geist. Six years ago. However, I do remember it very well. It was [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Struggle is Real</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2016 17:21:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Leaping into writing is a wonderful thing. It&#8217;s magic and inspiration and worlds only you can build. For many folks it is the culmination of their dreams to get published. They push and they push. They hack out little spaces of time to write. They wrestle with real life, while trying to create an imaginary [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our Ghost Rebellion Cover</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2016 17:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A few weeks ago I wrote about my experience doing our first cover shoot, and now I can reveal the first of the fruits of that experience. When we received the final product we were blown away, and knowing we were there to see how it was made makes it even better. In all the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/02/19/rumination-on-ten-years-of-podcasting/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2016 14:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Ten&#160;years ago this month I released my very first podcast episode. This realization struck me last Christmas, and I was once again reminded, damn time flies. Weaver&#8217;s Web was my first novel that I had finished, and I had sold it to a small Australian ebook publish in 2002. Ebooks back then were&#8230;well they weren&#8217;t [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Author Adaptation instead of Extinction</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2016/02/12/author-adaptation-instead-of-extinction/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:31:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s a lot of negative commentary out there for authors to digest right now. The Authors&#8217; Licensing and Collecting Society out of the UK, reported in 2014 that writers earnings had dropped 29% from 2005. Major publishing houses are being called on by the Society of Authors, to do things likeÂ releaseÂ rights that they donâ€™t actively [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Importance of Pants – Seven tips for writers working from home</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Feb 2016 13:47:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Since last week I talked about Habitica and how it has helped me reinvigorate my to-do list and become more productive, I thought I&#8217;d go a bit further and talk about things I have learned being a full-time writer. Back in April 2010 I quit my full-time librarian job which I loved, and took the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:20:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The to-do list. The bane of my existence. Seriously I would use whiteboards and markers for those long term goals, which I thought worked pretty well. However, it was the day-to-day items that would pile up; little things on social media, around the house, and writing tasks. The feeling of being snowed under and losing [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Chameleon Takes His Leave</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2016 13:58:24 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[David Bowie passed away yesterday. You&#8217;ve probably read the news that cancer took himâ€”just like it has taken so many bright stars. He was, in his later years incredibly private, happy to live with his wife and daughter in New York, but he left us one last album as a parting gift. I can remember [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2016 16:29:14 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I think all people are a work in progress, and writersâ€”as far as I am awareâ€”are people too. As an author my career and craft haveÂ been an organic things. I started writing as a teenager, and while I did have some training, did some courses, I still am largelyÂ self taught. I stumbled, I took some [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2015 15:22:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So this week I&#8217;ve been watching a lot of TV with women in it. Sorry, not just in it&#8230;they are the heroes and the main character&#8230;no, not just that, the programs are named after them! I&#8217;ve been watching Jessica Jones and Supergirl. Jessica Jones is more the character that I prefer to write myself. She&#8217;s [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A Writer in the World…and not</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2015 22:04:02 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been a difficult week for pretty much everyone with a eyes to see and a heart to break. The news has been full of pain, loss and huge amounts of fear. Innocent people all over the world have had their lives forever changed and broken by humans who fail to see the humanity in [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Letter to My Younger Self</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2015 01:31:39 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I have no real memory of when I decided to become a writer. I know that I was a voracious reader as a kid, and my parents were sensibleÂ enough not to prevent me from reading anything. My Dad had a huge couple of bookshelves. Now days he&#8217;s all about the ebooks, but back then that [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Eight Things Writers Can Learn from the All Blacks</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2015 00:06:49 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[If anyone doesn&#8217;t know, I am from New Zealand, and if there is one thing New Zealanders are passionate about&#8230;it&#8217;s rugby. Actually passionate isn&#8217;t quite the way to describe it. Rugby is a religion in New Zealand. The All Blacks are New Zealand&#8217;s international Rugby Union team, and they are pretty damn good at it. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2015 14:34:52 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Finally Immortal Progeny is finished! *huzzah break out the champagne* And it is off to the agent *takes a side of cake to go with the bubbles* And then I realized it took me two years to write. *drinks whole bottle and stuffs face with cake* There has been a whole lots of kerfuffle lately [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ideas are cheap…work is costly…</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2015 13:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I am in the middle of a flood right now. A flood of ideas, and somehow it feels like I am paddling madly yet going nowhere. Wait a minute, you are saying that sounds like a good problem to have! Ideas after all are the stuff writers are always chasing after. The more the better, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Jun 2015 14:38:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Confession time; last year I wrote three books. Or rather I started writing three books. One is a Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Young Adult spinoff. It is all about a young engineering girl, called Verity Fitzroy. Some of you may have read the Precarious Child and Merry Christmas, Verity Fitzroy. So I have been meaning [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2015 14:43:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[My first print book sale seems like a long time ago. Then I counted back and I realised it was&#8230;ten years ago. Ten. Years. How did that happen? I guess I have had my head down so long, working, writing, marketing, and attending the odd convention or two that I didn&#8217;t notice what year it [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2015 15:42:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So Tee and I have gone to our first convention of the season, and so the 2015 season is officially on. This year, like most years we have a pretty full on slate; in 2014 we had eight events, this year we have nine. As much as I love conventions, that is quite a lot, [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2015 19:33:11 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Having just returned from New Zealand after a two week break, a birthday celebration, and a fantastic convention, I feel almost as relaxed as I did after the break at the Smoky Mountains writing retreat. It was my Dad&#8217;s 70th birthday, and it was lovely to share it with him. I also managed to catch [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2015 19:20:05 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[It has been a whirlwind of a year already&#8230; January saw me returning to New Zealand to support my family. It was a bit nerve-wracking, but all is now well. Still that is where the month went. Then comes February. I went into the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee with a fabulous collection of writers. This [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:40:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;or wherein I Read to You for Nearly Eleven Hours! So for at least half of 2014 I dithered away recording Weather Child audiobook. I should have been a bit more consistent, but last year was the year of delays and panic&#8230; Anyway, I finally finished recording my story for Audible in late November and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2014 17:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[*insert the inevitable writerly post about the end of the year* 2014 has been a challenging year. A series of financial bumps meant I concentrated mostly on keeping our family afloat. Unfortunately this meant I didn&#8217;t get to finish many projects, but mostly felt as though I was running from pillar to post, trying to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 15:24:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Holidays mean giveaways, and I am participating in this absolutely huge one this year. The Hot Holiday Giveaway run by Bewitching Book Tours is giving away lots of free books, and a Kindle Fire HD 7&#8243; Tablet. That&#8217;d be nice in a stocking! Take a look at the books available in this giveaway! It could [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Dec 2014 14:32:40 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Every year there is a little frisson in the air. It&#8217;s cold outside here in the Northern Hemisphere, and now thanks to Short Fuse Publishing there is a way to warm up. I have a story in this anthology, and right now it is only 99c! That&#8217;s a lot of heat for not a lot [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2014 14:54:03 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Today I welcome Lila Lestrange to my site to talk about the genesis of her new novel, Black Silk, and going dark. As writers we have choices to make, like how violent, gritty and damaged we want to make our worlds. Lila talks about the choices she made and why&#8230; &#8220;Black Silk&#8221; is a tale [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2014 15:03:58 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[So last weekend my family and I were in Chicago. The main reason was to watch the New Zealand All Blacks play the American Eagles in Rugby, and also hang out with with friends. However, there was something waiting for us there&#8230; Chicago is a hell of a town, but all the stars seemed to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Oct 2014 13:19:57 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[There is one of those memes going around asking which books have stuck with you, and it made me think about what those books would be for me. However, being an author, I couldn&#8217;t just make a list&#8230;it needs context, and character to tell the whole story. I&#8217;ve said it before, and I&#8217;ll keep saying [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>The Trouble with the Wife</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:33:48 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I was watching the start of the second season of Sleepy Hollow. The show is goofy fun, with a great mix of characters, pseudo-history, and a charming pair of leads. Usually I enjoy the show, but there are some scenes I feel really disinterested in; the ones with Ichabod&#8217;s wife, Katrina. Yep, I had [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Fascination with the Lost</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Sep 2014 14:54:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve always had a love of history that has run along with my love of writing. I adore combining the two, and right now one of the series I am working on is set in Hollywood in the 1920s. I&#8217;ve also had a fascination with the lost memories, the forgotten experiences of the past. Like [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Me and My Bit</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2014/09/11/me-and-my-bit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2014 14:40:02 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[The Writing Life]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fitbit]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Getting healthy]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[motivation]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing life]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[So the saying goes, writing is a solitary craft, and yes&#8230;most of the time it can be. What they don&#8217;t say so much, is most of your time will be sitting on your butt. I guess with the recent amount of death circling writers and podcasters I have been thinking about health and getting the [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
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		<title>Death, Taxes, and PG Holyfield</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2014/09/04/death-taxes-and-pg-holyfield/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2014 14:01:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Thoughts]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[grief]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[loss]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[&#8230;it was so hard to think of a heading for this postâ€”or to write it at all. Even after 2 weeks, it isn&#8217;t quite real yet. Finally, I settled on a title for this post, that is a variant of a short story PG wrote for Scott Sigler. It&#8217;s a bizarre, funny, and yet chilling [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Jobbing Writer</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2014/07/20/jobbing-writer/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2014 22:16:50 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Pip news]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I admit I have been a bad little blogger! I was good at the beginning of the year, with lots of rants, but with so many channels of social media, I confess somehow blogging sometimes falls down my radar. Thinking about it, I guess it is because writing is what I do all day long [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Cover Reveal – Geisterzeichen</title>
		<link>https://www.pjballantine.com/2014/06/10/cover-reveal-geisterzeichen/</link>
		
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2014 23:03:24 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Books of the Order]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Writing News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[cover reveal]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I love German covers&#8230;there I said it. Though some of the exact details are occasionally a little astray, there is something about the movement and feel of the cover that I love. Today I found online the image of the fourth and final Book of the Order, or Die Runen der Macht which is due [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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