Tag: Authors
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2025 Writing Highlights: Judging
I was invited to help judge two writing competitions this year! The Mysterious Murders short story competition was open for entries from adults around the world and Te Kura o Karere Amazing Authors Awards competition was open for entries from students in years 5–8 at a local primary school. It was such a treat reading…
G. B. Ralph
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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! I was delighted…
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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.…
G. B. Ralph
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Local Readers and Authors Day 2025
Love is in the air! I’ll be chairing the romance panel at the Local Readers and Authors Day at Palmerston North City Library next weekend, chatting with A.J. Lancaster, Carole Brungar, and Sean Monaghan about their brand new romance novels. I’ll be asking them about subgenres, tropes, settings, writing something new, their readership, writing process,…
G. B. Ralph
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Book launch: Against the Grain by Bing Turkby
You may say it’s only fair, but I call it revenge! Fellow cosy mystery author Bing Turkby did a wonderful job helping me launch my latest book – Death in Douglas Glade – and now he’s roped me into doing the same for him in return. I would say I’m outraged, but I am actually…
G. B. Ralph
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LGBTQ+ cozy mystery authors and books to read this Pride Month (or any month!)
If you’re looking for something queer and cozy this Pride Month – or any time of the year, let’s be honest! – then CozyMystery.com have us covered… Queer Cozy Authors Investigate their new “Queer Cozy Authors” page currently featuring over 30 openly LGBTQ+ authors writing cozy mysteries – including G. B. Ralph (i.e. me!): Be…
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Mysterious Manawatū is back this Friday
Mysterious Manawatū is one of 30+ ‘Mystery in the Library’ author panel events being held in the lead up to the Ngaio Marsh Awards. Last year’s panel was great fun and I know this year will be too! I’ll be joining four other criminally good authors: Gareth and Louise Ward (The Bookshop Detectives), Riley Chance,…
G. B. Ralph
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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…
G. B. Ralph
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Event: 2025 Mystery in the Library, Whanganui
The time is almost upon us! Tomorrow evening I’ll be be joining a truly disreputable bunch of wrongdoers – Charity Norman, Cynric Temple-Camp, and Stephen Johnson – on an author panel in Whanganui. The event is part of the Mystery in the Library series being held across the motu in the build up to the Ngaio…
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