Interview: Dawn McMillan, author of Mister Spears and his Hairy Ears
Author Dawn McMillan writes children’s fiction and non-fiction books. She has published over 15 picture books and over 140 educational readers, which are used in schools in New Zealand, Australia, the...
View ArticleTop Secret YA Formula
Itching to write a Young Adult novel? Want your name to be tacked onto the list of authors who have risen to YA novel stardom? Do you, too, want to join the legions of others who have become a New York...
View ArticleTrust No One, by Paul Cleave
What could be scarier than the prospect of losing your mind; of being told that you will forget your own history, your own immediate past and everyone in it, including yourself. You will forget what...
View ArticleOn Messages in Fiction
I’ve been reading a fair few books lately which were designed to have a “message” – that is, to convince the reader of a certain point of view, using fiction as a medium for the author’s voice. Message...
View ArticleInterview: Geraldine Brooks, author of The Secret Chord
Australian-born author Geraldine Brooks has enjoyed a successful career as a journalist and foreign correspondent before turning her hand to literature, both fiction and non-fiction. In 2006 she was...
View ArticleResolutions for Writers: How to Write More in 2016
It’s that time of year again — the time when everyone starts making promises to themselves to eat better, exercise more and get back to that hobby they’ve been neglecting since god knows when. If...
View ArticleThe Book that Made Me, edited by Judith Ridge
You have to get to a certain age to really be able to appreciate a book like this. You have to be able to look back on your childhood with a few years of perspective to be able to understand and...
View ArticleInterview: Kara Isaac
Wellington’s own Kara Isaac, contemporary romance author of Close to You and the just released Can’t Help Falling, chats to NZ Booklovers abut Narnia, writing and some of her favourite things. Can’t...
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