2025 Writing Highlights: Hosting

Introducing MC Ralph – your book launch host and author panel chair!

As we know from highlight #2, I love to chat. But what’s better (i.e. less stressful) than being faced with a curly question and frantically attempting to articulate an intelligent and interesting answer on the spot? Asking them, of course!

2025 writing highlights (4 of 9): Hosting. Launching the latest cosy mystery from Bing Turkby. Chairing the Romance Panel at the Local Readers and Writers Day. Photos from the events showing authors holding microphones and speaking in front of an audience.

I was delighted to be approached to help Bing Turkby launch the latest in his Guitar Store Mysteries, Against the Grain, and chair the Romance Panel at the Local Readers and Authors Day at Palmerston North City Library with guest authors A. J. Lancaster, Carole Brungar, and Sean Monaghan.

In both instances we had a great time discussing their latest releases and all sorts of topics in and around reading, researching, writing, editing, publishing, and promoting books. I have to trust the audiences enjoyed the sessions too considering they laughed and clapped in all the right places, contributed some fantastic questions for our authors, and stuck around to buy some books afterwards.