Location: Australia
Member Since: Jan. 09, 2011
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Patty Jansen


Biography

Patty Jansen lives in Sydney, Australia, where she spends most of her time writing Science Fiction and Fantasy. Her story This Peaceful State of War placed first in the second quarter of the Writers of the Future contest and was published in their 27th anthology. She has also sold fiction to genre magazines such as Analog Science Fiction and Fact, Redstone SF and Aurealis.

Her novels (available at ebook venues) include Watcher’s Web (soft SF), The Far Horizon (middle grade SF), Charlotte’s Army (military SF) and Fire & Ice, Dust & Rain and Blood & Tears (Icefire Trilogy) (dark fantasy). Her novel Ambassador will be published by Ticonderoga Publication in 2013.

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Patty is a member of SFWA, and the cooperative that makes up Andromeda Spaceways Inflight Magazine, and she has also written non-fiction.
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Where to find Patty Jansen online

Website: http://pattyjansen.com/
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Blog: http://pattyjansen.wordpress.com/

Books

Trader's Honour    by Patty Jansen
Price: $6.99 USD. 131930 words. Published on April 11, 2013. Fiction.
To keep her position as interplanetary Trader, Mikandra needs to prove her employer's innocence. Instead, she discovers secrets that explain her people's history and threaten the foundations of her proud nation.
Shifting Reality - A novel in the ISF-Allion universe    by Patty Jansen
Price: $5.99 USD. 111650 words. Published on December 1, 2012. Fiction.
In the chaos of the worker population on New Jakarta Space Station, Melati needs to find a mind traveller with dangerous knowledge before the enemy can lay their hands on him.
Looking For Daddy    by Patty Jansen
Price: $2.99 USD. 32550 words. Published on October 14, 2012. Fiction.
Zombies, living roads, a lone boy and a scary neighbour. Novella adaptation of the story published in Tales for Canterbury
Icefire    by Patty Jansen
Price: Free! 10210 words. Published on May 21, 2012. Fiction.
A novellette set in the world of the Icefire Trilogy, the story that was the inspiration for the trilogy.
Blood & Tears (book 3 Icefire Trilogy)    by Patty Jansen
Price: $4.99 USD. 104100 words. Published on April 10, 2012. Fiction.
Continued from book 2, the saga of the people of the destroyed City of Glass, the neighbouring steam-age Chevakians, and the evil magic that pursues them
The Rebelliousness of Trassi Udang    by Patty Jansen
Price: Free! 5100 words. Published on December 21, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 2 reviews)
Short story set in the ISF-Allion universe. Published in the Belong anthology (Ticonderoga publications). Fifteen-year old Ari has plenty of run-ins with enforcers when he smuggles prohibited ingredients for his uncle and other clandestine restaurants in the B-sector of New Jakarta Station. But he stumbles on a rebellion that reaches far outside his insular little work, and is far more dangerous.
Dust & Rain (book 2 Icefire Trilogy)    by Patty Jansen
Price: $4.99 USD. 97690 words. Published on December 1, 2011. Fiction.
The continuation of the Icefire Trilogy. After the explosion destroyed the City of Glass, Loriane is in a convoy of refugees heading towards neighbouring Chevakia, a country deeply hostile to them, while Tandor is still bewitched and can't tell her why he wants her unborn child.
Blood Red    by Patty Jansen
Price: $1.49 USD. 7930 words. Published on November 16, 2011. Fiction.
Two horror short stories set in Australia. 'Quarantine' follows Rob the photocopier mechanic to a job in a small town surrounded by misty rainforest. 'Clouds of Fancy' deals with a town's struggle with drought, and an innovative solution that produces some very strange results.
Party, with Echoes    by Patty Jansen
Price: $0.99 USD. 4080 words. Published on October 31, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A short story. Yuriko works as a dive guide for rich tourists wanting to see the exotic life under the ice at Jupiter's moon Europa. But this one tourist has an agenda.
This Peaceful State of War    by Patty Jansen
Price: $2.99 USD. 9730 words. Published on October 16, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
A short story from Writers of the Future vol. 27. Envoy Miranda Tonkin must determine if human effort should be spent on stopping a vicious war between two alien species.
Fire & Ice (book 1 Icefire trilogy)    by Patty Jansen
Price: Free! 92170 words. Published on October 6, 2011. Fiction.
(5.00 from 1 review)
In his despair to right the wrongs done to his family, the sorcerer Tandor takes a huge risk that could lead to the destruction of his homeland.
Charlotte's Army    by Patty Jansen
Price: $2.99 USD. 23040 words. Published on September 21, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Seven thousand artificial human soldiers on their way to fight an interstellar war all share the same fault: they're obsessed with the same woman. A stand-alone story set in the ISF-Allion world.
Luminescence    by Patty Jansen
Price: $0.99 USD. 9820 words. Published on July 7, 2011. Fiction.
0.5 star(4.50 from 2 reviews)
Novellette. Set on Saturn's moon Titan, a tale of a mysterious find, and prejudice.
Raven's Call    by Patty Jansen
Price: Free! 7670 words. Published on June 18, 2011. Fiction.
A short story. The evil magician royal family were killed years ago, but one, a baby, may have survived. Crown princess Larisia needs to find this child.
The Weed Eaters    by Patty Jansen
Price: $0.99 USD. 5330 words. Published on June 2, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A short story. Tess finds that the weeds that are choking the countryside are part of a sinister plan.
Watcher's Web    by Patty Jansen
Price: $6.99 USD. 88790 words. Published on April 27, 2011. Fiction.
When Jessica ends up on a strange world, she knows it's not an accident, even though locals pretend it is. But two men are telling her different versions of what happened and why they want her, and with no knowledge of the world, she has to figure out who is right.
Out of Here    by Patty Jansen
Price: $3.99 USD. 51980 words. Published on April 12, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 1 review)
A collection of eighteen fantasy and Science Fiction short stories
Whispering Willows    by Patty Jansen
Price: $0.99 USD. 4340 words. Published on April 10, 2011. Fiction.
A short story. Friends and family on the farm know that Loesie makes up most of the things she says about magic. So the one time she tells the truth, they don't believe her.
The Far Horizon    by Patty Jansen
Price: $3.99 USD. 51270 words. Published on March 27, 2011. Fiction.
(4.00 from 2 reviews)
Of all the things ten-year-old Cory Wilson expects to do when he moves to Midway Space Station, saving aliens from humans isn't one.
Stripped bare - a light-hearted guide to getting the most out of writers' critique groups    by Patty Jansen
Price: $2.99 USD. 20040 words. Published on January 21, 2011. Nonfiction.
How to find a writing group that suits you and what you can expect once you've joined, and how to use writers'groups to become a better fiction writer
His Name In Lights    by Patty Jansen
Price: $2.99 USD. 11250 words. Published on January 13, 2011. Fiction.
0.75 star(4.67 from 3 reviews)
A novelette originally published in the Universe Annex of the Grantville Gazette. Why does company boss Eilin Gunnarsson care so much about two young clones that she sends them warnings written on the clouds of Jupiter?

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