Talking it up at the annual Writers’ Conference
Writers do more than write. They talk. Non-stop. I recently bore witness to the phenomena at the NZSA annual AGM, hosted this year in...
Bad weeks and good days
You know it's a bad week when the courier loses your corrected page proofs two days from final sign-off, when material for a magazine you...
Anzac Day - and a new book
When I was a child my family marked Anzac Day, 25 April, by climbing to the trig station on the hill behind our house. It was steep and –...
iBooks – Best of 2014
Fair to say I'm a very occasional blogger. There always seems to be a deadline that is more pressing. Maybe that's as it should be: those...
London Calling
Grubby old London is neither so grubby nor so ill-tempered as I remember. The crowds are worse - but a few blocks back from the Monopoly...
