February 2025 My family finds it weird, but every new year I count the days until the Bulletin of the Atomic Sciences publishes their...

I've begun the year by reading one of the most dense, incredible books I've ever picked up: Iain McGilchrist's The Master and his...

I was on a writing course with Elizabeth Knox as guest speaker a few years ago. I remember her saying at one point in her career she was...

February’s Blog 2023 The notes I’d started for a February blog were abandoned mid-month when Cyclone Gabrielle raged through our...

Semicolons. Recently, I started Ursula le Guin’s book about writing, Steering the craft. In the introduction the second sentence says...

Musing at Mahia In early November I was lucky enough to be able to sneak off to Mahia Peninsula for a few days of writing, reading and...

Writing off and writing on Writing off. We are saying a slightly premature farewell to our beautiful-ugly 2007 Fiat Multipla. We have...

“Tell all the truth but tell it slant” (Emily Dickinson 1263) Recently, I went to a fabulous workshop in the Ahuriri version of NZSA...

Spurred on by the positive reviews to Before the Rising… Hawkes Bay Today Review #1 Hawkes Bay Today Review #2 NZ Doctor Review …I have...

Before the Rising finally rose. We had a wonderful book launch at Wardini Books in Napier on 12th May. Terrifying but wonderful! A few...

I’ve got to the middle of my first draft of ‘Fight’ and am now researching juvenile detention centres in Australia. It’s hard to do. Max...

On this day there are many, many more important things happening than my book release. A David and Goliath war is raging in Ukraine....

And so it begins. Isla and I inspected the proof of 'Before the Rising' last week. I was excited. Isla, not so much. Next up is ordering...

I have spent a lot of time sitting on this very chair, staring not at the camera, but at the computer screen, trying to understand the...