Interactive Fiction Wins Award A Wellington newspaper, Cook Strait News, has done a wonderful article about Dragons Realm‘s new shiny 2016 Sir Julius Vogel Award for Best Youth Novel. Dragons Realm is part of the You Say Which Way series of interactive fiction published by The Fairytale Factory. Interactive fiction is a great way for…
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Thank you for the Sir Julius Vogel Award I was gobsmacked. Speechless. And in tears. Quietly (my friends can vouch that’s not usual for me), I thanked the many people who have shaped my writing – a long list – while tears tracked down my cheeks. But, wait, roll back. What’s this show of emotion…
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The short list for the 2016 Sir Julius Vogel Awards has been out for a while. Although I’ve been very busy writing and have neglected to post this earlier, I’m very excited to be a finalist in two categories! Dragons Realm is shortlisted for Best Youth Novel I’ve also been shortlisted for Best New Talent.…
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Our recently-awarded Sir Julius Vogel Award has hit the local news. It took a while to appear in this newspaper, and a while longer for me to post this here, but I’ve had a great excuse! I’ve been busy finishing a kids’ manuscript to get it to a publisher. I’m a few weeks off deadline,…
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Over Easter weekend I attended the Sir Julius Vogel Awards at Reconnaissance, the New Zealand National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention. I was lucky enough to have some work shortlisted in these awards, and was very happy to collect two Sir Julius Vogel awards for a project in which I was a sub-editor. Lost in…
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Sir Julius Vogel Award Shortlist I am absolutely tickled pink at being on the shortlist for the Sir Julius Vogel Awards this year! My work has been nominated in several categories: Best Short Story – The Watch Serpent (author) read it here. Best Collected Work – The Best of Twisty Christmas Tales (co-editor with AJ…
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I am gobsmacked. I never expected this. The shortlist for the 2015 Sir Julius Vogel Awards came out last week… and lots of my work has been nominated! A big thank you to my readers for being so supportive. I was speechless. (Me? Can you imagine that?) I couldn’t even blog about it! (That may…
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Storylines Family Day Michael Fowler Centre Wellington Sunday 24 August 10am-3pm We have lots of bug-gy and bee-sy activities lined up at Storylines Family Day. Sally Sutton and Gary Venn have a great book, with a bug theme, Ben and the Icky-Ooky-Sticky Smick. Brian Lovelock just illustrated Raymond Hueber’s book Flight of the Honeybee and…
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