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Travelling around the islands on my first visit to Greece many years ago, it seemed as if every second person[…]
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Rights aren’t something many writers give much thought to. In the rush of elation of at a publisher’s interest, they’re[…]
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Earlier this week, J K Rowling posted this on Twitter: Quite coincidentally, a couple of days earlier I’d just started[…]
Read moreFour publishing lessons in four minutes
In 1995, my first novel, Telling Stories, won the Reed Fiction Award for the best unpublished novel. The prize was[…]
Read moreThe state of the NZ book market
Last year, New Zealanders purchased 5.3 million printed books — not bad for a country of just 4.6 million people,[…]
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