Biography

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.

Philippa is the author of the Books of the Order series with Ace- Geist and Spectyr out now, and Wrayth (2012) and Harbinger to follow. She is also the co-author of the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences series with Tee Morris. Phoenix Rising debuted in May 2011 and The Janus Affair will be out in May 2012. She also has the Shifted World series with Pyr Books, with the first book Hunter and Fox coming in June 2012.

When not writing or podcasting, Philippa loves reading, gardening, and whenever possible traveling. With her husband Tee and her daughter, she is looked after by a mighty clowder of five cats.

Bibliography

Philippa Ballantine is represented by Laurie McLean of Larsen Pomada Agency

Novels

Massmarket

Geist - from Ace Books (2010) ISBN 0441019617

Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: Phoenix Rising- (2011) ISBN 0062049763

Spectyr- from Ace Books (2011) ISBN 0441020518

Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences: The Janus Affair- Coming May 29th 2012 from Harper Voyager ISBN 978-0062049780

Wrayth- coming August 28th 2012 from Ace Books ISBN 978-1937007751

Hunter and Fox- coming June 26th 2012 from Pyr Books ISBN 978-1616146238

Harbinger- coming 2013 from Ace Books

Born and Made- coming in 2013 from Pyr Books

Trade paperback

Digital Magic- DragonMoon Press (2008) out of print

Chasing the Bard- DragonMoon Press (2005) out of print

E-published

Weaver’s Web- Writer’s Exchange (2002) out of print

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

Love and Fire- Tales of the Children

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