Tag: Authors
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Get cozy this Pride with LGBTQ+ authors and characters
It’s June, which for many means Pride Month! Whether your days are getting brighter and warmer or darker and colder, celebrate by cozying up with a good book on the beach or in front of the fireplace, depending on your hemisphere. No matter the temperature, if you’re looking for something queer and cozy this Pride…
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Mysterious Manawatū 2026: Reflecting on a night of crime (writing)
Four crime writers shared insights and spilled secrets on an author panel full of surprises. Our brilliant host, Kim Hunt, sprung intriguing and thought-provoking questions on me, G. B. Ralph, and my fellow panellists, Patricia Dunmore and Bing Turkby, last night. We enjoyed a fascinating chat on breaking the rules, rogue characters, unexpected endings, and…
G. B. Ralph
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Reminder: Mysterious Manawatū 2026
Sleuths and suspects, it’s almost time! I’ll be at my local library on Thursday 30 April 2026 – i.e. this coming week – alongside a fantastic panel of local authors discussing crime, mystery, writing, publishing, and plenty more. We’d love to see you there! What is Mysterious Manawatū? Mysterious Manawatū is part of the Mystery in…
G. B. Ralph
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Save the date: Mysterious Manawatū 2026
Get your calendars out, folks! I’ll be at my local library on Thursday 30 April 2026 alongside a fantastic panel of local authors discussing crime, mystery, writing, publishing, and plenty more. We’d love to see you there! What is Mysterious Manawatū? Mysterious Manawatū is part of the Mystery in the Library series of events being held…
G. B. Ralph
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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