Tag: Author event
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2025 Writing Highlights: Chatting
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…
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A brief debrief of the Local Readers and Authors Day 2025
Local Readers and Authors Day at the Palmerston North City Library was a hit and I had a great time chairing the first event of the day! Romance panel It was initially a mystery to me why I – G. B. Ralph, primarily a mystery author – had been asked to chair this romance panel.…
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Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival 2025: indie publishing panel (and more!)
‘A thorn between two roses’ is how Kate described us here – her words, not ours! – which I think captures the support, generosity, hilarity, and light-hearted ribbing of our indie publishing panel at the Hawke’s Bay Readers and Writers Festival earlier this month. Chaired by the wonderful Catherine Robertson, our panel featured USA Today…
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This weekend: Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival 2025
I’ve been invited to join an indie author panel at the Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival where Catherine Robertson will be asking Kate O’Keeffe, James Russell, and G. B. Ralph (me!) what it takes to be a successful indie author. I’d love to see you there! Event details
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Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival 2025
I’ve been invited to join an indie author panel at the Hawke’s Bay Readers & Writers Festival – which is definitely another square on the author career bingo! The event is called The Most Famous Authors You’ve Never Heard Of and will be chaired by Catherine Robertson. She will be asking Kate O’Keeffe, James Russell,…
G. B. Ralph
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A cracking evening of clues, crime and craft at Wardini Books
It was a full house at Wardini Books in Napier for our ‘Clues, Crime & Craft’ event last night! Bing Turkby and The Bookshop Detectives‘ Louise Ward warmed everyone up with a musical performance before Riley Chance and I joined the panel for a fun and free-flowing chat. We discussed how we each started writing;…
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Napier book event next week: Clues, Crime and Craft
We’re going inter-regional! Hawke’s Bay friends and whānau, come along next week to see what we’re plotting and scheming! We’ll be chatting books, writing, mystery, crime fiction, where the bodies are buried, and whatever else intrigues us on the night. Who’s coming? You are! Who else? Event details
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Clues, Crime and Craft: An evening of mystery fiction in Napier
Palmerston North authors Bing Turkby, G.B. Ralph, and Riley Chance pop over to Napier to chat with the marvellous Louise Ward, bookseller and co-author of The Bookshop Detectives. Come along for a fun evening of murder most mysterious, a modicum of mayhem, and maybe even some music! Event details
G. B. Ralph
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My weekend at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025
I had a wonderful time at the Featherston Booktown Karukatea Festival 2025 – a fabulous and fascinating weekend away with friends! I’ve pulled together some of my notes and photos from the weekend… Saturday 10 May 2025 Our first day involved an early start and driving over the hill. We had a quick pitstop for…
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Over 100 turnout for Riverside Wrongdoings at Whanganui Library
Riverside Wrongdoings was a brilliant event last night in Whanganui! I had a wonderful time with my fellow authors / accomplices Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson. And what a turnout! So many readers that we had to switch to a bigger space at the library and then keep bringing more chairs out. It was…
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