Workshop with Silkpunk author Ken Liu
Last weekend I was one of twenty-something people to hang with multi-award winning epic fantasy author and creator of the…
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Super scribe Deryn Pittar in new story collection
Sir Julius Vogel winner, young adult fantasy and romance writer, short story extraordinaire and flash fiction fanatic. Deryn Pittar is…
Aftermath – stories of survival in a future NZ
Am so excited to have a story accepted into the SpecFic NZ anthology ‘Aftermath’. Such a great collection of fiction…
Planning Shlanning and other things I said before writing a book series…
We’ve all got our routines. Breakfast routine, exercise routine, maybe even a pre-dinner gin and tonic routine. Especially in these…
What have I been writing?
It’s been a busy couple of months… Story. Stories. Writing. Write. Short stories. Book series. Books. Here’s the lowdown: Book…
Book week author visit to Churchill Park School
This morning I was welcomed to Auckland’s Churchill Park school. Located near St Heliers, in the middle of beautiful green…
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Jan Goldie
I started writing creatively when I was 10 years old and haven’t stopped since. True, many of the snippets I’ve written are hidden in a bottom drawer or long discarded. But others have started off as teeny, tiny ideas in the middle of the night and grown into enormous, fantastical worlds and full length novels.