This past week has been busy. On Wednesday, I attended Bankwood School's whole-of-school production of Wooden Arms. It was absolutel...

Ben built me my own whare manaaki tangata.   Here it is in action at the Waikato Show last weekend, where, along with Judi Billcliff a...

Everywhere I go, I see Wooden Arms houses. Homes and buildings that have been used, inhabited, perhaps cherished, and now have been left b...

I’ve had two pleasant surprises and two firsts in one week. First (of the firsts) is this online listing for The Bold Ship Phenomenal on...

The really exciting thing about this photo is not my book (unfortunately), but where it’s taken. The book (lucky thing) is now living...

Looking at the title I chose for this series of blogs, I’m beginning to feel rather less serially challenged than when I began. I realis...

I am two-thirds of the way through having the manuscript for my hopefully soon to be self-published book, The Bold Ship Phenomenal , edi...

Check out this picture of Wooden Arms being read to a class at the Anglo American International School in Moscow. OK, so it...

Phew! That was a mission. I smile to see that, when I decided that the first thing I needed to do to get my manuscript – the Bold Ship Ph...

One of the good bits about being a writer is all the talented creative book people that you get to meet. Writers, illustrator, book des...

A big thank you to all the wonderful kids at Puketaha School who made my author visit such fun this week. I really enjoyed our time togethe...

Talented Judi Billcliff is launching her second book of 'fun poems for kids young and old' his coming Sunday 8 June at 1pm at St ...

It was a good week last week. I sent off two stories to publishers (with fingers tied in double-bows, sheep’s shanks and half-hitches) and...

Something very exciting is happening in Hamilton during April. Garden Place Library is hosting the Between the Lines Exhibition, providing...

The Waikato Children’s Literature Association’s AGM is on this Thursday 13 February. If you live in the Waikato and you don’t already k...

I found out just before Christmas that my manuscript, The Bold Ship Phenomenal, didn’t win the Kobo Prize. But…thank you to all you lovel...

I’ve just come across the podcast for Wooden Arms on Radio New Zealand’s website. It’s read (fabulously) by Matu Ngaropo, as part of ...

Voting has closed for the Kobo Prize, so thank you to everyone who voted for me (and to those who didn’t, but were nice enough to read m...

Voting has started for the Kobo NZ Authors E-Publishing Prize. My children’s novel, The Bold Ship Phenomenal , is one of the five novels s...