In Publishing News this week,   Just after I published last week’s blog news broke about Meta forcing a book take down. I published a no...

The recent Spinning Tales conference for New Zealand Children’s Writers and Illustrators highlighted  some important need to know facts ab...

I have been contemplating the power of well written genre fiction.  It can comfort, challenge or make sense of the world. At different time...

On the side of my blog I have a list of must read blogs. One of those is Jane Friedman’s There Are No Rules.   Jane is one of the touchsto...

School is out today and I’m eating juicy summer strawberries trying not to look at my very very long 'To Do' list that has to be d...

Yesterday the New Zealand Children’s Literature community heard the wonderful news that there will be a new award for Illustrators.  Ann Ma...

Ah Facebook...such a time waster sometimes, and sometimes not. This week Facebook friend, Sarah Billington, posted on her blog what it is ...

This week the country waited with baited breath to find out if The Hobbit will be filmed here.  YES IT WILL.  Wellington is a small city ch...

Today I had lunch out, without a child chaperone, with two author friends. It was wonderful just briefly feeling like a human being - able t...