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Later this week I’m appearing at a few events at the Auckland Writers and Readers Festival, including a YA reading on Friday May 17th.
I’m also going to be an MC at the Schools Day programme on May 16th, so if you’re in coming in for one of those events, make sure you say hi to me!
Leave a commentThanks to the great blog Backyard Books for an in-depth discussion of RUINED and some of my other work. There are lots of links on the page, too, for those of you with burning questions this web site doesn’t answer!
Leave a commentI have a couple of new things posted online this week. The first is a blog post on ‘Inspired Openings’ for a great YA publishing site.
The second is quite different, a review of for Landfall Online of Your Unselfish Kindness: Robin Hyde’s Autobiographical Writings, edited by Mary Edmond-Paul. Hyde is an important New Zealand writer from the early part of the twentieth century, and I found this new collection fascinating.
Leave a commentThanks to a very kind invitation from the New Zealand Embassy in Germany, I’ll be back in Berlin in early April for an event at the English Theatre. The NZ ambassador, Peter Rider, and I will be presenting a wide-ranging programme on NZ books and writers (and culture, history, sport!) as part of the theatre’s Berlin Sofa series.
Leave a commentUNBROKEN, the sequel to RUINED, is now available in book stores in the US, and has this review from Kirkus. I’ve also got a Wikipedia page now – useful for those site visitors doing a school report! – and there’s a new page on this site as well, Writing Services, for anyone seeking manuscript assessments or help with editing, copywriting, social media, etc.
Leave a commentRANGATIRA has been serialised and recorded by Radio New Zealand, and is being broadcast every day this week and next. There’s more information on the schedule here. It can also be downloaded so you can listen on a computer.
It’s read by the superb Maori actor George Henare. Very exciting!
4 CommentsOn Wednesday night RANGATIRA won best work of fiction at the New Zealand Post Book Awards.
As a result I’m doing lots of radio/TV/newspaper interviews this week, and yesterday sat down with Guy Somerset of the Listener for a podcast about the novel.
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