ANNA MACKENZIE

Sometimes life doesn't go according to plan. Sometimes you get the hard stuff. The last month of 2016 was a challenging one for our...

Great to see a new and re-jacketed edition of High Tide on the shelves! It was my first novel, and remains popular with young readers (11...

Auckland - three weather extremes in an hour, traffic mayhem even on a Sunday, every second retail outlet an eatery. I had a full...

Festivals are fun. There's the standing on a stage in front of an audience of hundreds with the opportunity to talk about your work....

I had a day-long meeting in Auckland yesterday (I know: Sunday. It’s a writer’s life…). A lot of my meetings these days are online or...

Time might fly when you’re having fun, but it flies faster when you’re mega-busy. Of course, the ideal is when you’re having fun being...

​ Swanning. No other word for it. Ten days in Hawaii – sun, sand, surf, Maui mountain rain and volcanic rock in all permutations. I’ve...

Late July heralded Evie's official arrival into the world (though she'd been with me far longer!). The launch, held in the beautiful...

​ Launching a new book is an exciting thing, a beginning but also an ending. It marks the moment when the job is truly complete, and...

You can learn a lot about a place by reading the local signage. Yesterday a restaurant advised that ‘Firearms and or dangerous weapons...