Tag: Event
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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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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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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,…
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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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Author takeover: Cozy Mystery Lovers Facebook Group
I’ll be running the show for two hours in just two days! Come along and see what mischief we can get up to… If you’re keen to participate, you can join the Cozy Mystery Lovers / Meg’s Cozy Corner Facebook Group now so you’re ready to go when I’ll be there chatting about my writing,…
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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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Palmy Drag Fest Rainbow Fair 2025
What’s this? We’re back at the Palmy Drag Fest Rainbow Fair, joining over 50 other stalls featuring LGBTQ+ creators, products, and services. I’ll be there selling books (including my latest!), signing books, and chatting with readers. I’ll be sharing a stall with my friend and fellow author who is often away with the fae –…
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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,…
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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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