What a weekend! I’m exhausted and energised in equal measure.

It was a real treat spending a few days surrounded by the most entertaining storytellers and smartest businesspeople at the Romance Writers of New Zealand Conference 2026.

It was very full program! My conference, in short:

🎤 3 keynote presentations
💬 3 more talks
👥 2 panel discussions
👷 4 workshops
☺️ catching up with friends
🤝 meeting so many wonderful new people
🕵️ (including fellow mystery writers!)
😂 countless hallway chats between sessions
🥂 more chats in the bar after each day
📝 scribbling down over 20 pages of notes
🔥 getting fired up to write and sell books!

I was too busy chatting to remember to grab more than a handful of photos, but a huge thanks to the organising committee, presenters, and my fellow authors for making it such a memorable weekend x