I love to walk, and lots of ideas for new stories and snippets for stories I am working on come to me when I am out and about. This is not u...

  There’s a witches’ cauldron on Ngarunui Beach. Have you seen it? Three dinosaur eggs lie inside, smooth as stone.   Enormo...

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...

Last year I had shed envy (for Dawn McMillan’s writing hut overlooking the Thames coast). Now I have bookshelf envy. I have just finished...

I'm grinning from ear to ear. The Bold Ship Phenomenal  has been awarded a Storylines Notable Book Award for 2016 . I'm so chuf...

What is it about egg-shaped chocolate that makes it taste so much better? To celebrate the arrival of Easter eggs in the shops (one of my ...

A nice review of my book by New Zealand book girl (Chrissi Blair) on her blog. I've had a great time this morning trawling through...