Recorded on the road in America. Tee Morris and I discuss Double Trouble and the fun had in this year's tour. We talk Amazon runs, New Media Expo, our micro tour, and the wonder that is DragonCon.

Myself on the jackalope at South of the Border- a wonder of American culture
Direct download: wate_25.mp3
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This is one thing I have been dealing with- a very grumpy cat in a cone. Don't think 100 year olds get into fights- well here is the proof they do!

Roundup

What I've been up to- never fear the kiwi hasn't been slacking off in the least. Don't forget Double Trouble on 08.08.08

Pip's Pick

OurNZ.co.nz

New Zealand Creative


Edwin Derricutt.com


Direct download: wate_24.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:13 AM
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Roundup

Planning on change
Chasing the Bard
South Cross Challenge
America tour 08

From the headlines

Talking magpie tops pecking order as cat befriends birds
Unexpected bite to case of munchies

Writer's Life

Learning about short stories

Promo

Obsidian

Parsecs

Slice of New Zealand Life

Lollies - Jaffas - Milkbottles - Pineapple lumps



Direct download: wate_23.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:10 AM
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Picture is Oriental Bay in Wellington- isn't she lovely...

Roundup

Conjuntion

Chasing the Bard

From the headlines

Hedgehog gets police escort

Dolphin saves the whales

Writers Life

Wot I learnt at the con

Pip's Pick

Flight of the Conchords how did I miss this one

Slice of New Zealand Life

The OE

Promo

SOBcon

Direct download: wate22.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:07 AM
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Roundup

Met the Flight of the Conchords
Editing with Geist
Writers get together
WATE nominated for a Sir Julius Vogel

From the Headlines

Peace puzzle

Wierd titles

Writers Life

Scrivenr review

Pip's Pick

Old time glory- the theatres of Wellington

New Zealand Life

Clean green New Zealand?

Upcoming

Conjunction- come on and meet me


Promo

Jack Palms


Where to find me

My webpage - Pip on FlickrTwitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: Whispers_at_the_Edge_ep21.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:48 AM
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Roundup

Podjacking

Erotica Readers

2008; the year of living creatively

Conjunction

Ripped from the headlines

Rugby Sevens

Rugby in the snow

Writer's Life

The struggle

Pip's Pick

Twitter

Slice of New Zealand

Sir Edmund Hilary

 

Promos

Metamor City

Morevi; Remastered




Direct download: WATE_ep20.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:33 AM
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Made by the Sarge as a Christmas episode- thought this deserved to go out in the feed and not just in the show notes. How very New Zealand
Direct download: TeadyBearHaka.m4v
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 11:43 PM
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The Sarge, from the Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy takes over the reins - find me (Pip) over there

Writers Life

NaNoWriMo wrap up.

Mentions
Playing for Keeps
Doesn't mention the Easter egg in chapter 7... the kiwi superhero
NanoMonkeys
Doesn't mention Pip contributed to it.
Morevi remastered
Doesn't mention that Pip is Askana
Billbub Baddings and the Case of the Singing Sword
Doesn't mention that Pip is the World Book in this

Pip's/Tee's Picks

Tee recommends Stardust. And so does Pip.

Slice of New Zealand

Tee is in love with the ABs and just check out his very, very cute Teddy Bear version of it. Love it when Americans fall in love with our culture, but his Maori ain't so hot.... sorry Tee have to give you lessons on this.

Wrap up

TeeMorris.com


Promos
OK I think he got these right

Adventures in Sci Fi Publishing
The Geologic Podcast






Direct download: Whispers_dec07.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:39 PM
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Roundup

Geist talk

Hollie Smith concert

Why do people podcast?

Geist

Last WATE for the year.  2008 will be a year of change, but that is fine.  Change is good.

Ripped from the headlines

FOTC Wellingtonians of the year


Quality of life survey


Writing

Writing through a crisis.  Don't let the writing bite the dust.  Use your personal pain  They say write what you know.


Pip's Pick

Strangerthings.tv


New Zealand life

Movember pictures - Official site


Promo

Morevi Remastered and Metamor City


Where to find me

My webpage - Pip on FlickrTwitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: Whispers_at_the_Edge_19.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 AM
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Europe and the various recordings I made there.  A kiwi perspective on London, Scotland, Amsterdam, and Paris

My webpage - Pip on FlickrTwitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: wate_spe207.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:12 AM
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Snap from the Whispers World

Shaz wears Joe Murphy fashion

Roundup

Back at work- the wonderful world of librarians.

Speed writing helped by travel, journal writing and JC Hutchins SOLIDARITY

Parsec Nomination but no cigar. 

Appearing in Metamor City this month and Morevi Remastered next month.

(Not mentioned cos I am an idiot, also appearing in Murder at Avedon Hill this month- please forgive me PG Holyfield!)

Ripped from the Headlines

Speight's "perfect woman"

Granity online

Writing life

Kerryn Angell of NZ NanoWriMo

kiwiwriters

Michael Stackpole's secrets

I Should Be Writing

Will Write for Wine

Meet us as Esquires Coffee House, 31st October 5.30pm-7.30pm

Pip's Pick

Crescent

New Zealand Life

Marmite

Promo

Metamor City

Where to find me

My webpage - Pip on FlickrTwitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: wate_18a.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:47 AM
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Tee and I at Constellation Books.

The Roundup of America.

Links

Michael Larsen's book

Jack Mangan

H2 Zoom

Hear more of me talking in these podcasts this month

Morevi remastered

Metamor City

My webpage - Twitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: water_sped_07_01.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:16 PM
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A little audio drama for the month of September- Gift of the Waves

Weaver's Web ebook

Weaver's Web podiobook

Direct download: gift_waves.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:52 AM
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Snap from the Whispers world

An oldy but a goodie.  This is Lake Dunstan in Otago, one of the most beautiful places in New Zealand.  This lake is man-made and right next to Cromwell.  This was a day to remember just for its magnificence

Roundup

Not leaving you high and dry.

Parsec nominee!

King Lear

Birthday

Appearing in Murder at Avedon Hill- first Leann's adversary now her mother!

Feedback

Kiwi Dirare

Ripped from the headlines

Woof the tui

Vegansexuals


Writing Life

Choosing a title

Pip's Pick

Life on Mars

New Zealand Life

Beer, wine and pumpkin wierdness

ALAC stats

Promo

Murder at Avedon Hill

Where to find me

My webpage - Twitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

Direct download: wate_17.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:00 AM
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Snap from the Whispers world

Every month I will take a snap of my world.  This July it is Willis Street on my way to work on a miserable day, so you know NZ isn't all rainbows and dancing hobbits.... and I was on a road island.  Look at that bus whizzing by!

Roundup

Kia Kaha from Grant

Parsec nomination

Belly Dancing- female energy to the max.

Argggh spam to the left of me, spam to the right of me.

Sir Ian McKellen in August.

DragonCon; Podcasters UN, DragonMoon booth and Siggy's Pimpin' Party. 

Put on your helmet, Pip about to lose her cool/rag/control - in a totally understated NZ way : Australians and those @#&! sheep jokes.

Ripped from the New Zealand Headlines

 NZ Victoria cross

Jaffa roll

Writing Life

Know your writer's crutch

Pip's Pick

Highland Farewell

New Zealand Life

Ms. Ballantine's class in kiwi language

 

Finally... is spam sending a message?

Promo

Geologic Podcast

 

Where to find me

My webpage - Twitter as PhilippaJane- MySpace as nzbard - Skype ID: nzbard (Let me know you're a WATE listener if you ping me)

 

Direct download: wate_16.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:56 AM
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Round up

The news from NYC

Whoops, what happened to that novel?

Palmy North

Some Stories to comment on... New Zealand ranks on something positive... and the Kiwi accent big hit with Spelling Bee

Feedback

Writer's Life

Writing groups

Pip's Pick

Sapphire and Steel

Slice of New Zealand

Matariki

Promo

The Parsecs

Direct download: wate_15.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 AM
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Roundup

New kit- from Musicians Friend

Feedback

Graduation

Bad cider timing

Writing synopsis and being under the gun.

Writer's life

Writing and sleeping

Pip's Pick

NZ Music Month.  Fat Freddy's Drop.

This video was filmed on funky Cuba Street in Wellington and features three recognisable clubs, including the Matterhorn, right next door where I used to work.

Slice of NZ

ANZAC day

Promo

Tag in the Seam

Direct download: wate_14.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:34 PM
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Reservoir at Karori sanctuary

 

Roundup

Joe Murphy, Stonehenge NZ wedding, tomato harvest, Novel ticking along.  Feedback from Germany and Estonia. And being one of Billi's 'ladies'.  The Karori Wildlife Sanctuary.

Writer's Life

Another writing stretch

Pip's Pick

Black Sheep.  If you like sheep that is.... and gore.

Slice of NZ

Wellington- Good and bad this city still has me.

How windy is Wellington

Promo

Joe Murphy memorial fund

Direct download: wate_13.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 8:43 PM
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Yes, here it is my own little promo for WATE.  If any of you want to share the love then download and put into your own podcast. (47 secs in length)

Cheers

Pip

Direct download: wate_promo.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 2:39 AM
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Roundup

Life on Mars, tough time writing, Baen free library, and my 15 seconds of fame, DragonCon, rewiring or don't let  a civil engineer near electricity!   Feedback from poetry and I do my best harpy impersonation on Billibub Baddings

Writers life

Here's an exercise.  People on the street.  A good one to get the imagination working, sort of like stretches for your brain.

Pip's pick

BBC online

New Zealand

Daylight saving.

Before I go....

Tee's Men vs Child

Promo

Buy Ancestor in print.. but not until April 1

Direct download: wate_12.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:34 PM
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Roundup

Getting blasted dirty, local fare, writing progress, and Billi

Writer's life

What poets can teach novelists; don't blow all your words at once, imagery, rhythm, senses and other good stuff

Pip's Pick

A tale of melancholy and then a poem from Keats

Still with me??

A slice of NZ

James K Baxter

Promo

Kick Ass Mystic Ninjas

Direct download: wate_11a.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 12:57 PM
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Fortnightly roundup

James Bond, dodgy weather still haunting me, America (again?),Whot I got for Xmas, My WoW addiction

Writer's life

My experience on hunting agent

Pip's Pick

Plot & Structure: (Techniques and Exercises for Crafting a Plot That Grips Readers From Start to finish)

45 Master Characters: Mythic Models for Creating Original Characters

Slice of New Zealand Life

The kiwi summer (oh how I miss it...)

Promo

Billibub Baddings Podiobook

Direct download: wate_10.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:43 AM
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Fortnightly roundup

Finishing a 100,000+ novel, getting my final grade, and my new addiction to t-shirts.  Also on being a guest vocalist for Billi.

Writer's life

End of the year, check how you went on your goals, and get ready to set some new ones.

Pip's Pick

Robin of Sherwood- nothing to do with tight pants or nostalgia really...

Slice of New Zealand life

The kiwi Christmas.

The New Zealand Christmas Tree- isn't she a beaut!

 

Where to find me and my work online; podiobook, Chasing the Bard, myspace, ebooks...

And remember have wonderful holidays whatever your hemisphere of the earth!

Promo

Failed City Monologues

Direct download: wate_9.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:33 AM
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Fortnightly roundup

First BBQ of the season with my Boys, finished being a student, coming to the end of a novel, and feedback on feedback

Writer's Life

The value of a good reference library

Pip's Pick

Lion of Senet

Slice of New Zealand life

The ritual burning of protein

Promo

The 9th - a Heroes podcast

Direct download: wate_8.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:38 AM
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Fortnightly round up

Oh the weather.  Bricky Pip still exists.  Wellington NaNoWriMos.  The end of editing and study.. yipee!  The dangers of too many books in one brain.

Writer's Life

Dealing with rejection.

Pip's Pick

Carnivale

Slice of New Zealand Life

New Zealand, the dark side.  Are we all the brooding types, or is it just the artists?

Mentioned; The Quiet Earth, The Piano, Vigil,  Bic Runga.

Promo

Billibub is coming!

Direct download: wate_7.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:22 AM
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Fortnightly round up

(I think bi-weekly counts as twice a week.. whoops!)

Pip the brickie, the joys of editing and I go back to school

Writer's life

The perils of writing historical ficiton

Pip's Pick

Luck in the Shadows

Slice of New Zealand life

Did the earth move for you?  Yes, but it was just an earthquake!

Promo

The Watercooler podcast

Direct download: wate_6.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:22 AM
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A rapid roundup of life after America.. including my big announcement, and how my lastest project progresses.  I discuss the perils of noodle arm.

My writerly jaunt in the States from my POV.

All the joy of Baltimore, Harrisonburg and the Renaissance Festival.

Tee Morris from the Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy... OK what's he really like...

What I learnt on the signings.

And next week back to my normal format.

Any ideas for what you'd like to hear or questions you'd like to hit me with, email me

Direct download: wate_se2.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:25 AM
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My roundup of my American trip, thoughts and comments.  From a writers standpoint next edition.
Direct download: wate_se1.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 1:09 AM
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Bi weekly round up

Birthday survival, confirmed dates for American signings

Writer's life

Characters, how I build them

Bite of New Zealand life

Anyone for a slice of kiwi?

Promo

The B5 podcast

Direct download: wate_5.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:26 PM
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Bi-weekly roundup

Feedback, update on American schedule, Chasing the Bard audio sample, geriatric1927 on Youtube.com

Writers life

Motivation and how to make time for it

Pip's Pick

His Majesty's Dragon

Bite of New Zealand life

Rugby... and the All Blacks

 Promo

The Survival Guide to Writing Fantasy

Direct download: wate_4.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 PM
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Bi-weekly round up

Update on my current projects, Death of David Gemmell, Very first listener feedback

Writers life

The three attributes of a successful writer

Pip's Pick

www.podiobooks.com - Morevi - 7th Son - How to Disappear Completely

Bite of NZ Life

The tui , the song of the tui and Karori wildlife sanctuary

Promo

Sci Fi Dig

 

Direct download: wate_3.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 3:05 PM
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Writer's Life: Editing or "Put that Novel away and don't think about it."

Pip's Pick: YA Novels, Sorcery and Cecelia, Sabriel

NZ Bite: the Pavlova.. I kid you not....

Any ideas for what you'd like to hear in any of these sections, or general chit chat email me

 

Promo: Seventh Son

Direct download: wate_2.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 7:22 PM
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Writer's life

Writers block, the two types and some ideas on how to get past it 

Recommending

CJ Cherryh

New Zealand bite

Don't believe me about possums have a look!

Promo- Morevi

Direct download: wate_1.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 6:03 AM
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The intro show about me, Philippa Ballantine, and my plans for this New Zealand writing show.

My novels
Chasing the Bard
Weaver's Web

My website

Thanks to Steve McDonald and Etherean Music

Direct download: wate_intro.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 5:26 AM
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