I recently started my writing highlights recap with publishing and for my next trick: talking, chatting, discussing, gas-bagging, shooting the breeze, yabbering on…

I love chatting with fellow readers and writers about all things books – plotting, planning, drafting, editing, researching, publishing, promoting – so it was a real privilege and pleasure to be invited to join four (4!) author panels this year:

• Mysterious Manawatū in Palmerston North
• Riverside Wrongdoings in Whanganui
• Clues, Crime & Craft in Napier
• Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival in Hastings

And with such delightful panellists: The Bookshop Detectives (Gareth and Louise Ward), Riley Chance, Tina Shaw, Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, Stephen Johnson, Bing Turkby, Catherine Robertson, Kate O’Keeffe, and James Russell!

Mysterious Manawatū

Riverside Wrongdoings

Clues, Crime & Craft

Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival

2025 writing highlights

1. Publishing
2. Chatting
3. Coming soon