Pearl in a Whirl

Here’s a book I worked on night and day for a month to get it ready for print and we are so very proud of it, not only because it’s about a gorgeous fluffy cat, but one who survived Cyclone Gabrielle and every copy sold will raise much-needed funds for the Hawke’s Bay Foundation to […]

Big Wins at WOW!

It occurred to me this week that I didn’t update my blog last year to celebrate my persistence in The World of Wearable Art that culminated in a huge win for myself and my collaborator Bruce Mahalski.  I’ve been entering WOW since 1995, with 27 finalist entries in show and whilst the sole object of […]

Masher

May was the start of the colder weather, but also the launch of Masher, my new mid-grade fiction!Published by Penguin Random House.I wrote the first draft of this novel when I was the 2019 Otago University Creative New Zealand College of Education Children’s Writer in Residence (phew what a mouthful!) It was in my last […]

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