A few weeks ago I had the privilege of being part of a panel on World Building. I don’t claim to be an expert–after all, I’ve only created one world. But I have been building it for quite a long time … I started in 2003! In preparation for the panel, I did a bit… Continue reading World Building panel

Super excited to learn that Golden City is a finalist for the Caleb Awards! This award is administered by the Omega Writers group, which is open to Australian and NZ Christian writers. Check out https://www.omegawriters.org/2021/06/28/caleb-finalists-2021/ Unfortunately, the awards will be held in NSW, on 9 October 2021, so I won’t be going (as I am… Continue reading Eek! Golden City is finalist for Caleb Awards!

I was recently privileged to be a part of the 2021 Young Writers Day Out. The YNZW was started by my writing colleagues Lee Murray and Piper Mejia ten years ago. It’s a pretty cool event: First of all there are two free-to-enter writing competitions: one for middle grade and the other for high school… Continue reading Young NZ Writers – a big day out

I had the honour a few weekends ago of being the inaugural speaker to be invited to speak to Write on Kawerau – the Kawerau writers’ group. Since discovering and using the Snowflake Method to design my third novel Golden City, this talk has become my signature talk. I’ve now presented it four times. Bascially,… Continue reading An author talk in Kawerau – are you a plotter or a pantser?

Eek! Just found out that my third book in the Realm Trilogy Golden City has made the final ballot for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards – Best Youth Novel category. Check out these articles: https://sffanz.nz/the-sir-julius-vogel-awards/sir-julius-vogel-award-finalists-2021/ https://locusmag.com/2021/04/2021-sir-julius-vogel-awards-finalists/ Thank you everyone who voted for me so far. Now my fate is in the hands of the SFFANZ… Continue reading Golden City is a finalist for SJV Award!