Released to the wild
Late July heralded Evie's official arrival into the world (though she'd been with me far longer!). The launch, held in the beautiful...
Evie on the brink
​ Launching a new book is an exciting thing, a beginning but also an ending. It marks the moment when the job is truly complete, and...
Evie on the loose
Evie is 18 and eager to tell you her story. Astonishing to think she was born in both 1897 and 2011 (when I first began thinking about...
The writing on the (African) wall
You can learn a lot about a place by reading the local signage. Yesterday a restaurant advised that ‘Firearms and or dangerous weapons...
Talking it up at the annual Writers’ Conference
Writers do more than write. They talk. Non-stop. I recently bore witness to the phenomena at the NZSA annual AGM, hosted this year in...
Juggling
A month of dedicated writing time disappears more quickly than you can imagine. But not without trace: 50,000 words, thousands of...
