{"id":3231,"date":"2011-10-06T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2011-10-07T03:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/?p=3231"},"modified":"2011-12-14T21:57:29","modified_gmt":"2011-12-15T02:57:29","slug":"interview-with-pip-ballantine-and-tee-morris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chuckchat.com\/technorama\/2011\/10\/06\/interview-with-pip-ballantine-and-tee-morris\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris"},"content":{"rendered":"

On this show we are excited to bring you an interview with our friends Pip Ballantine and Tee Morris about their new collaborative book Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel<\/a><\/em>. You have probably heard them both on this show from time to time (especially Tee), but if you have not let me introduce you to them.<\/p>\n

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Pip is a writer and podcaster from\u00a0New Zealand. She has been a mainstay in the podcasting fiction world with such titles as\u00a0Weaver\u2019s Web, Chasing the Bard, Weather Child,\u00a0<\/em>and\u00a0Digital Magic. <\/em>She is also the author of\u00a0Geist<\/em>\u00a0with three other titles in that series on their way.<\/p>\n

Tee Morris when he isn’t speaking somewhere is also a podcaster and writer. In 2005 Tee became known for being the first to podcast a novel,\u00a0MOREVI The Chronicles of Rafe & Askana (2002)<\/em>, and following up with\u00a0Billibub Baddings Mysteries:\u00a0The Case of the Singing Sword<\/em><\/em>\u00a0winning him the 2008 Parsec Award for Best Audio Drama. \u00a0He also has written instructional works Podcasting for Dummies<\/em>, and Sams Teach yourself Twitter in 10 minutes<\/em> as well as All a Twitter<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Together Pip and Tee have written together\u00a0Phoenix Rising: A Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences Novel<\/em>:<\/p>\n

These are dark days indeed in Victoria\u2019s England. Londoners are vanishing, then reappearing, washing up as corpses on the banks of the Thames, drained of blood and bone. Yet the Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences\u2014the Crown\u2019s clandestine organization whose bailiwick is the strange and unsettling\u2014will not allow its agents to investigate. Fearless and exceedingly lovely Eliza D. Braun, however, with her bulletproof corset and a disturbing fondness for dynamite, refuses to let the matter rest . . . and she\u2019s prepared to drag her timorous new partner, Wellington Books, along with her into the perilous fray.<\/p>\n

For a malevolent brotherhood is operating in the deepening London shadows, intent upon the enslavement of all Britons. And Books and Braun\u2014he with his encyclopedic brain and she with her remarkable devices\u2014must get to the twisted roots of a most nefarious plot . . . or see England fall to the Phoenix!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

After the interview if you want to find out more about Pip and Tee and their work head over to\u00a0The Ministry of Peculiar Occurrences<\/a>\u00a0website.<\/p>\n

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