GeyserCon 2019 in photos GeyserCon, NZ’s 40th national SFF convention, came, and it went — in a blur of sci-fi & fantasy discussion, events, education, networking, crafting, hilarity and fun. I had a busy weekend. For me, there were many highlights, best shown in photos! Okay, the photos aren’t brilliant, but they’re all I have!…
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Why review books? Recently I had a reader write to me, saying that while they understood that reviews make a writer feel good, why is it that we want reviews? Why do we need a pat on the back? Don’t we understand that our books are good? That letter made me smile. I love my…
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Ezaara and Dragon Hero have been nominated in the EFFY awards (Epic Fantasy). Ezaara is still a few votes away from qualifying for the next round of the EFFYs. I’d love to get Ezaara in front of the judges, so they can read it. If you haven’t already, it would be awesome if you popped…
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Jacinda Ardern Our Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has received a plea from a young New Zealander to research psychics and dragons. She responded, returning the $5 the child had enclosed, and asked whether those fire-breathing mind-reading dragons actually wore suits! Jacinda’ s cameo in Ezaara Jacinda Ardern has a cameo in Ezaara, Riders of Fire,…
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GeyserCon At the end of this week, I’m traveling to Rotorua to GeyserCon, the 40th annual National science fiction & fantasy convention. Sounds like fun, right? Yeah, it WILL be fun, but it will also be a working holiday. On Friday, A.J. Ponder and I are teaching a writing workshop for 9-10-year olds. We’ll have…
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Meet Ravenheart Cosplay! Checkout These Homemade Wings! I recently attended Armageddon in Wellington, a sci-fi fantasy extravaganza where cosplay folks come out in droves to strut their stuff. I was lucky enough to meet Lucifer Morgenstar, a,k.a. Ravenheart Cosplay or Lotte van Ginkel, who told me about her journey into cosplay and why giant wings…
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Armageddon was a blast! Armageddon was a blast! Three days of wing flapping, crazy cosplay, weird storm troopers stalking me with menacing glares (Chewbacca was away in Christchurch, sadly) and keen readers popping by to say hi. Three days of talking non-stop (which wouldn’t surprise my friends — I love meeting new people). Three days…
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Grief March 2019 was a traumatic month here in New Zealand. We are a small nation of 4.7 million people, usually with only 2-3 degrees of separation between us, so the recent act of terrorism, killing fifty people, is still ricocheting though many people’s lives. In the face of such loss, our Prime Minister Jacinda…
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Name a Spider I’d like to announce the winner of the Name a Spider contest that I ran on Facebook back in March! I had meant to announce the results along time ago, but was neck-deep in edits for Dragon Rift, my latest book. Then I launched Dragon Rift at Armageddon, and life went crazy…
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Storylines Notable Book Awards It’s been a while since I received my Storylines Notable Book Awards for Ezaara and Dragon Hero — for excellence in young adult fiction. I was absolutely thrilled to be among such distinguished company with my roaring dragons! Although I posted on Facebook and told my readers about it in my…
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