Tag: Event

• 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

  30 Sep 2025

  Writing

  Author event, Book festival, Event, Festival, Hastings, Hawke’s Bay, HBRW, Indie publishing

• 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;…

  G. B. Ralph

  29 Aug 2025

  Writing

  Author event, Cosy mystery, Cozy mystery, Event, Hawke’s Bay, Mystery, Napier, The Bookshop Detectives, Wardini Books

• 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

  G. B. Ralph

  21 Aug 2025

  Writing

  Author event, Books, Crime fiction, Event, Hawke’s Bay, Mystery, Napier, Wardinis

• 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

  13 Aug 2025

  Writing

  Author event, Books, Crime fiction, Event, Hawke’s Bay, Mystery, Napier, Wardinis

• 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

  10 Jul 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Bing Turkby, Book Launch, Books, Cosy mystery, Event, Interview, Library, Mystery, Palmerston North

• 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…

  G. B. Ralph

  12 May 2025

  Reading, Writing

  Author event, Book festival, Books, Event, Featherston, New Zealand

• Mysterious Manawatū 2025

  I had a blast at last night’s ‘Mystery in the Library’ author panel event at the Palmerston North City Library with The Bookshop Detectives, Riley Chance and Tina Shaw. We had a great time discussing the importance of the New Zealand setting in all of our books, our ever-growing cast of characters, how we tackle…

  G. B. Ralph

  3 May 2025

  Writing

  Event, Mystery, Mystery in the Library, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Palmerston North

• Felonies in Feilding (Mystery in the Library 2025 event)

  Fantastic night with this bunch of felons in Feilding! The Bookshop Detectives, Bing Turkby, and Patricia Dunmore chatted crime, character, research, plotting, and how they take something from just an idea to a fully fledged novel. Great fun! If you missed out tonight, we’ll be doing another Ngaio Marsh Awards ‘Mystery in the Library’ event…

  G. B. Ralph

  1 May 2025

  Reading

  Event, Library, Mystery, Mystery in the Library, New Zealand, Ngaio Marsh Awards

• 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

  28 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Books, Event, Interview, Library, Mystery, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Palmerston North

• 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…

  G. B. Ralph

  9 Apr 2025

  Writing

  Authors, Books, Event, Interview, Library, Mystery, Ngaio Marsh Awards, Whanganui