Category: My stories

Lost in the Museum Hits the Headlines!

Lost in The Museum was featured in the Dominion Post last weekend, on the Capital Day page. Both Tim Jones and I had fun in the glaring sun with the fresh Wellington wind creating new hairstyles and making our eyes water! What a photo! Brilliant! The Cook Strait News also ran an article last Monday.…
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Baby Teeth – hear my story Dad’s Wisdom

Baby Teeth-Bite-sized Tales of Terror is now available as an audio book. My story Dad’s Wisdom has been uploaded as the sample. Pop over to Sound Cloud to listen! Narrated by the amazing Chris Barnes of Dynamic Ram. Enjoy his cool accent! Don’t get too scared by this bite-sized tale of terror! It’s an adventure…
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Lost In The Museum – Review

Copies of Lost in The Museum are zipping off the shelves. Beattie’s Blog, the cornerstone blog of the New Zealand literary world, has just posted a great review of Lost In The Museum by Lee Murray! Pop over and see it! Lost In The Museum is available from all good bookstores. Retrospace in Auckland and…
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Lost In The Museum – Launch at Conclave II

The Lost in the Museum book launch 2pm, Saturday, 26 April at Surrey Hotel, Auckland at Conclave II, the New Zealand National Science Fiction and Fantasy Convention Join Conclave II Guest of Honour, Lynn McConchie, & authors Alicia Ponder & Eileen Mueller Get lost in the museum where past, present and future collide. What does…
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Lost in the Museum – Cover Art.

Lost in the Museum is coming soon! Last year I joined Phoenix Writers (the Wellington-based arm of Phoenix Science Fiction Society) just as they were closing submissions for this collection of crazy capers in Te Papa – NZ’s national museum. My stories squeaked in before the deadline and were accepted. Over the past two months, I’ve…
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Eileen Mueller receives New Zealand Society of Authors’ Mentorship with Kyle Mewburn.

I’m shouting from the rooftops, grinning! I’ve been accepted for The New Zealand Society of Authors’ mentorship program. Each year the Society mentors twenty writers, but only two of those twenty can be mentored for children’s works. I’m lucky to be one of those two.  🙂 Kyle Mewburn will be mentoring me.  Together we’ll work…
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More of My Stories to be Published In Disquiet Anthology

I have great news. 🙂 Two of my short works – a poem and short story – have been accepted for the Disquiet anthology, a compilation of dark stories that will ‘make your toes curl.’ All of the works in this book are set in New Zealand and Australia and are by Antipodean authors. The details…
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Eileen Mueller featured on Helen Lowe’s blog

“Here’s SpecFicNZ–Wellington”: Featuring Eileen Mueller – I was recently featured on Helen Lowe’s blog, as a Wellington member of SpecFicNZ (Speculative Fiction of New Zealand.) Hop over to Helen’s blog to find out more about what drives me to write, hour after hour, into the wee hours of the morning almost everyday! Twisty Christmas Tales…
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Twisty Christmas Tales – News!

Free Giveaway! Today, Friday December 20, the DomPost are giving away 5 free copies of Twisty Christmas Tales. To enter email capdaycomp@dompost.co.nz by 5pm on 20 December. One entry per person. Give it  a try and see if you can win a copy of our crazy Christmas stories! Review Our first review for Twisty Christmas…
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Ahi Kā – Winning Entry in NorthWrite 2013 Collaboration

Alicia and I were thrilled to win first equal in the NorthWrite 2013 Collaboration contest with our short work Ahi Kā. (The contest was run by run by the Northland branch of the New Zealand Society of Authors.) It was the first time that I had attempted collaborative writing and I thoroughly enjoyed it. This…
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