YA Author | annamackenzieauthor

Released to the wild

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...

Evie is 18 and eager to tell you her story. Astonishing to think she was born in both 1897 and 2011 (when I first began thinking about...

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

Putting together a website takes more time and energy than you imagine. Alongside your allocation of t + e, I recommend a multiple-use...

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...

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 –...

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...