CONTACT DETAILS TO ORDER AT BOTTOM OF PAGE Medar – Realm Trilogy (book one) by SR Manssen (Tom Fitzgibbon Award finalist for Best Youth Novel) A mysterious tablet. An ancient prophecy. A quest to find Tyrelia. Freya is half blind, poor, and lives in [...]

Residency day seven, high on Takarunga (Mount Victoria) Devonport. It's late afternoon and I'm looking west through the studio window between the lilies and the flax bushes. The sun glints on the endless stream of traffic on the Auckland Harbour Bridge and I'm so [...]

Poetry, music, song and games - yes, a real live parlour party -  for just a few hours in the fitting surrounds of  Tauranga's Historic Village hall on Saturday 2nd December. This event is Tauranga Writers last on the list for its Jubilee year. It's also a tribute to writers [...]

Anne Cleary Not About Time When I look back to the period of time during which I wrote my two novels, I often wonder how I managed it. I was busy – far busier than I am now – home-schooling my two children. Yet [...]

In April 2017, I attended the international Horror Writers Association’s second annual StokerCon conference, a convention bringing together creatives and consumers of the horror genre: writers, screenwriters, illustrators, game designers, graphic artists, podcasters, voice talent and filmmakers. Held, on this occasion, on Long Beach’s [...]

What a fantastic week of elite workshops we had last week, ranging from screenwriting, writing for children, history, plays and fiction. Wow! Big thanks to president Jenny Argante who's been so focused in making this year memorable. The 21st of June was 50 years to the [...]

June 10 is fast approaching for our TW training of Scrivener with Angela Curtis. I've heard some good things about this design tool, how it can make sense of a manuscript. I get lost once it passes 10,000 words. Where did I write that, where can [...]

I’ve been writing since the eighties, when in a space of ‘nothing to do’, I began Mills and Boon. After chapter 3, it became my own story, and because it didn’t properly follow the strict guidelines, was not accepted. However, parts of it were adapted into a [...]

In ‘Con’ terms, I’m still considered a newbie. I went to my first NZ National Science Fiction and Fantasy convention in Wellington 4 years ago and I’ve been returning (sometimes kicking and screaming against my fear of public speaking) into Convention panels and events [...]