We had a rainy Sunday brunch with fellow authors followed by a book fair with readers at the Local Authors Day, which is part of Palmerston North City Library’s Writers and Readers winter series.
It was great to catch up with familiar faces and meet a whole bunch of new ones!

Authors at the Local Authors Day
I know I’m missing a few names (apologies!), but from memory, going around the room anticlockwise:
- Thom Conroy – author of The Naturalist and The Salted Air
- G B Ralph – author of The Milverton Mysteries and the Rise and Shine series
- AJ Lancaster – author of the Stariel series
- Riley Chance – author of the Grace Marks thrillers
- Bing Turkby – author of the Guitar Store Mysteries
- Candace Ana Mitchell – author of the Dream Sequence series
- Carole Brungar – author of the Return to Nam series and The Hamiltons
- Miriam Sharland – author of Heart Stood Still
- Sam Wyss – author of Scathing
- C.T. Dickons – author of Thorn Boy, contributing author and editor of Ship of Horrors
- Zak Rodgers – author of The Cure for Gravity and Playful Anarchy
- Sean Monaghan – author of the Cole Wright thrillers and the Captain Arlon Stoddard Adventures
- Tasmin Turner – author of the Crime Scene Kosovo legal thrillers
- Anne Henderson – Manawatū Writers’ Hub
- Robyn Salisbury – author of Staying In Love and Free to be Children
Update (25 June 2024): Here’s a photo of most of us together, shared by one of our wonderful librarians:

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