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Deborah Biancotti

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Deborah Biancotti is co-author of the ZEROES series with Scott Westerfeld and Margo Lanagan. Her collections BAD POWER and A BOOK OF ENDINGS are available from Twelfth Planet Press and her novella WAKING IN WINTER will be available from PS Publishing in March 2016.

She's been nominated for the William L. Crawford Award for Best First Fantasy Book, the Shirley Jackson Award, the Aurealis & Ditmar Awards.

Deborah lives and writes in inner-city Sydney, Australia.

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	Bad Power (Twelve Planets, #4) by Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor) , Ann VanderMeer (introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 70 ratings — published 2011 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ishtar by Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Cat Sparks (Goodreads Author) , Kaaron Warren (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Waking in Winter 4.38 avg rating — 16 ratings — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Book of Endings by Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Alisa Krasnostein (Goodreads Author) (editor) 4.31 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2009	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 24, Issue 6) by Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Stephanie Gunn (Goodreads Author) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Review of Australian Fiction (Volume 11, Issue 6) by Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author), Thoraiya Dyer (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2014	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Scar for Leida 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The First and Final Game 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 1999	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swarm (Zeroes, #2) by Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author), Margo Lanagan (Goodreads Author) , Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author) 3.85 avg rating — 1,797 ratings — published 2016 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nexus (Zeroes #3) by Scott Westerfeld (Goodreads Author), Margo Lanagan (Goodreads Author) , Deborah Biancotti (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 473 ratings — published 2017 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Waking in Winter give-away!

To celebrate my guest post on Mary Robinette Kowal‘s My Favorite Bit series AND the recent Kindle eBook launch of Waking in Winter on Amazon, I’ve launched a giveaway!

ONE hardcover copy of Waking in Winter will be available *worldwide*.

That’s right. You could be anywhere, & I’ll post you a book. I’ll even sign it.

The giveaway runs for 10 days over on the Waking in Winter Goodreads page. Ent...

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Me Being Me Is Exactly as Insane as You Being You

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“First say to yourself what you would be;
and then do what you have to do.”
― Epictetus

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“Writing is like hunting. There are brutally cold afternoons with nothing in sight, only the wind and your breaking heart. Then the moment when you bag something big. The entire process is beyond intoxicating.”
― Kate Braverman

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“Writing is the only thing that when I do it, I don't feel I should be doing something else.”
― Gloria Steinem

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“If I had a view like this to look down on every day, I would have the energy and inspiration to conquer the world. The trouble is, when you most need such a view, no one gives it to you.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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“Like all failed experiments, that one taught me something I didn’t expect: one key ingredient of so-called experience is the delusional faith that it is unique and special, that those included in it are privileged and those excluded from it are missing out.”
― Jennifer Egan, A Visit from the Goon Squad

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